Possible Clues:

• Surface debris following — much earlier in the day?
• Wreckage found floating
• Washed-up wreckage
• Detritus
• Goods lost as half of family puts in things for auction
• Wreckage adrift at sea
• Salvageable stuff fellow almost abandoned
• Unimportant items
• The loud quantity from the wreck over the boy (7)
• Endless rumour once about many things going adrift