Word: shoaling
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...conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
...under way on her trial run. Instead of her regular crew, she had aboard hundreds of dockyard men and technicians. Some 180 miles south of Nagoya, the U.S. submarine Archerfish sighted her, dark and enormous among a shoal of destroyers...
...England proved an unnavigable shoal for the Navy swimmers this weekend, as fresh from a 47 to 28 reversal up at Dartmouth the night before they foundered unexpectedly before Hal Ulen's men last Saturday night...
Voice of Freedom. MacArthur sat upright in the stern of the barge. When it grounded in shoal water, he walked down the ramp and waded ashore. He was wet to the midriff, but the sun glinted on the golden "scrambled eggs" on his strictly individualistic cap as he faced a microphone. To Filipinos his first words were the fulfillment of a promise: "This is the Voice of Freedom." That was how the last Corregidor radio programs began. Said Douglas MacArthur...
...filled the barge with air, thus lifting the freighter six feet off the bottom. Then he towed the Humphrey along until she dragged on the bottom again. In a series of eight of these operations, he moved the Humphrey a mile and a half under water. When she reached shoal water, Captain John began pumping air directly into her double bottom. On Aug. 13 the pilothouse appeared...