Word: shoaling
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...race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island; then that H.G. Leslie's 40-footer Typhoon, mistaking the headlights of cars for harbor lights, had run aground on the ocean shore across the Cape from Provincetown. Vanitie, Valiant and many another were towed into Provincetown harbor; the rest, tacking slowly...
...Bishop's contemplation of the weather was interrupted by a crash as the Livonia struck a shoal. Soon a heavy squall smote the stranded ship. The Bishop hurriedly launched his lifeboats, took all hands aboard, rowed for tiny, deserted Plana Cay. In ten minutes the Livonia had sunk...
...stern, thin-lipped Yankee skipper of the old school, came on deck at this juncture, saw what he thought were breakers-a shoal. He mounted the bridge ladder two rungs at a time and fairly tore the glasses from my hands...
From her pinprick on the world's charts of New York Harbor, off which she has lain to warn the ships of the world of a guardian shoal, the Ambrose steamed southeastward?for 1? mile. Then down went her bebarnacled anchor-&-chain once more...
...Treasury Lowman announced that eight new 75-ft. cutters, 16 smaller patrol boats, were being sent into the Great Lakes to combat rum-smuggling, raising U. S. vessels there to 100. At the same time it was stated that machine guns would be dismounted from smaller craft, in shoal water near the Canadian shore, promiscuous shooting bring international complications. Last week rum runners slipped through the Detroit blockade in broad daylight, landed their cargoes when a patrol boat left its post for gasoline...