Word: agrounder
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...example, when the Iceland fishermen of Britanny are sailing about in the vast open sea, the movie chooses to show the running aground of the hero's ship and the specific reasons for his never returning to the arms of his bride. The novel, on the other hand, in dealing with the voyage strives above all to pass on a consciousness of the gloom, cold, and impenetrable unfriendliness of the northern waters. And when the great, bashful sailor does not return, his widow-bride is shown to be weeping all the time, instead of somehow conveying, as she does...
...left the Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
...struck. Down to the engine room flashed the signal: FULL SPEED ASTERN. Four propellers, each as big as a bungalow, churned the chocolate-colored water to froth. It was too late. Bow and stern, the 80,773-ton ship was aground. Her own engines were useless...
Dancing blithely in the languid Caribbean night, late-reveling passengers on the Holland-America liner Rotterdam fortnight ago felt a slight shock, were mildly alarmed to learn that the 24,000-ton cruise-ship had gone aground on tiny Morant Cays, 40 miles southeast of Jamaica. Speedily assured there was no danger, most of them joined the rest of the 460 passengers in sleep. Next day, with no other incident than one sprained ankle, they and most of the crew were picked up by nearby ships, taken safely to Kingston...
...They may look peaceful and act peaceful for a long time. That's your good luck. But you know the time is coming when the sea is going to rise and hand you all it's got in the way of trouble-and that's plenty." Aground in a tropical hurricane at night last week, Captain Sundstrom was handed a maximum of trouble...