Word: agrounder
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...Canadian grain ship Sarnian went aground near Point Isabelle, Mich, (the Coast Guard rescued its crew...
...bomber's moon on four successive nights guided aircraft of General Douglas MacArthur's command over the jungle-clothed mountains of New Guinea to Rabaul. On one raid a Jap cruiser was hit. On another a warship was driven aground. Two other warships and numerous cargo vessels also felt the sting of night raiders striking at the best deep-water harbor in the New Guinea-New Britain area...
...worst defeat in its history was now plain. Not only had the Arizona been sunk, as Navy Secretary Knox acknowledged after a quick survey of the Pearl Harbor wreckage 52 weeks ago. The Oklahoma was perhaps beyond salvaging. The California, West Virginia and Nevada were either badly damaged or aground. (A ship in the bottom of a shallow harbor can be floated.) The other three battleships in Pearl Harbor last Dec, 7, the Tennessee, the Maryland and the Pacific Fleet flagship Pennsylvania, were put out of action temporarily...
That night, Wakefield boarded a 43-ft. schooner for an overnight fishing trip. After dinner his daughter Pamela clambered into the dinghy and accidentally cast herself adrift without oars. Wakefield hauled up anchor and sailed after the girl but only went hard aground. The dinghy drifted on into a marsh while Wakefield frantically waved red flares for help and SOS'd till the batteries were dead. Nobody came. Pamela stumbled through the marsh to the home of a vacationing Coast Guardsman and next morning returned with him to the stranded yacht...
...century and a half had passed since Fletcher Christian and eight other mutineers with Tahitian wives and friends had sailed the Bounty to Pitcairn, run it aground and burned it. By 1800 all the mutineers but John Adams had either died quietly or been murdered. And for 29 years Adams, brandishing the Bounty's dog-eared Bible, had ruled the island wisely and well. From the U.S., a few years later, had come a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary who converted all the island's inhabitants. Since then, Pitcairners have been prohibitionists; education for children has been compulsory...