Complex sentence: In the following days a rescue search was undertaken in the hope of finding the ship somewhere sheltered in an African port, but unfortunately wreckage from the cruiser started to wash up on the beaches of Tarifa and Algeciras.
Split into simpler sentences: In the following days a search was undertaken in the hope of finding the ship somewhere sheltered in an African port. However, wreckage from the cruiser started to wash up on the beaches of Tarifa and Algeciras.