Word: overboard
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...somewhere among the shadowy pierheads, 20 yards off, a rowboat put softly out, pulled alongside. Three men with the daring of none but I. R. A. itself leaped aboard, and set upon the watch. In the tussle, the watch managed to draw his pistol. As the attackers heaved him overboard, he fired three shots, rousing the sleeping.crew. The marauders fled to their boat, pulled frantically for shore and escaped. Eire's first Navy had won its first shindig...
...called for help to a watching throng as his ship was about to collide with the landing float. "First to volunteer," explained he, "was no strong husky male but a frail Dresden China 'doll'. . . . Other persons promptly followed and, in their eagerness, pushed the celestial maiden overboard. . . . Although the girl was drowning in full sight of thousands of Chinese they, with much better appreciation of China's tremendous population than I, passively watched her float past...
...dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum-like regularity after catching in the rigging when the officer is thrown overboard by the crew (Potemkin...
...tragedy, almost an international incident. Survivors' heads were counted when they reached shore. No less than 104 were missing, including the four nuns. Rescued passengers grimly described how those who had obeyed orders and gone to the saloon were trapped and burned, how a mother, clothes afire, leaped overboard, how a lifeboat was swamped by the seas. Some in scant night clothes died of exposure to icy spray and mistral...
Those standing around the boats were either swept overboard or trapped between the two decks; those of us who were still on our feet struggled up the companionway and down on to the port deck...