Search results for "Aground" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Revenge, which is believed to have run aground near Beaufort Inlet, North ... Shortly afterward, Blackbeard ran two of his vessels aground at Topsail ...25 KB (4,026 words) - 23:53, 12 February 2024
- Malaysia to the Netherlands when it ran aground after strong winds allegedly ... Upon running aground, Ever Given turned sideways, completely blocking ...20 KB (3,047 words) - 21:31, 26 February 2023
- amount of treasure from one which had run aground and exacted a heavy ransom as the price of his evacuating the place. Finally, by an ingenious ...11 KB (1,645 words) - 15:41, 25 January 2023
- still the largest iceberg on Earth, until it ran aground and split into several pieces on October 27, 2005. It has been determined that the cause of ...12 KB (1,760 words) - 17:16, 10 February 2024
- terrible conditions. When the Pandora ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef ... the banks while three other vessels ran aground. When Nelson feigned not ...24 KB (3,787 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- Monroe to join in the battle and had run aground. After Virginia had dealt ... 11, 1862, Tattnall ordered Virginia run aground at Craney Island and set ...27 KB (4,097 words) - 09:45, 22 September 2023
- four of which seemed to be badly listing or to be aground. The smaller vessels outside the harbor entrance were in apparent disarray. Dewa approached to about ...14 KB (2,217 words) - 10:20, 22 September 2023
- in 1909 and was badly damaged when she ran aground in 1911. During World War ... retook control of the ship and ran her aground in Odessa harbor. ...35 KB (5,047 words) - 18:20, 22 December 2022
- Land, the ship carrying Berengaria and Joan went aground off the coast of Cyprus, and they were nearly captured by the island's renegade ruler ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 10:59, 28 September 2023
- captained by explorer James Cook, ran aground there on June 11, 1770, and experienced considerable damage. It was finally saved after lightening ...18 KB (2,736 words) - 01:04, 21 January 2023
- off course. On July 2, it ran aground on a sandbank off the West African coast, near today's Mauritania in the Banc d'Arguin. The grounding ...16 KB (2,318 words) - 17:29, 10 February 2023
- fled in terror and was forced to run his ships aground. Upon landing he spread coins, purple robes and other splendid articles on the deck of his ...30 KB (4,708 words) - 15:44, 21 May 2024
- boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream. ...30 KB (5,219 words) - 01:04, 9 January 2023
- Marshal de Conflans and sank, captured or forced aground many of them, putting an end to the French plans. The year 1760 brought even more disaster ...29 KB (4,438 words) - 10:09, 26 January 2023
- Wolsey’s legal reforms also ran aground when the new courts became overloaded with incoherent, tenuous cases, which would have been far too ...31 KB (4,953 words) - 20:23, 31 October 2022
- west through the Torres Strait, Pandora ran aground on a reef (part of the Great Barrier Reef) on August 29, 1791. The ship sank the next day, and ...32 KB (4,973 words) - 19:39, 10 November 2022
- anchor at Varna, during a fierce tempest runs aground on the shores of Whitby, a coastal town in northern England. All of the crew are missing and presumed ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- up many of the severely damaged ships sank or ran aground on the shoals. A few of them were recaptured by the French and Spanish prisoners overcoming ...36 KB (5,789 words) - 01:40, 26 September 2023
- Spain. Nineteen days later, the Santa Maria ran aground near the present site of Cap-Haitien; Columbus was forced to leave 39 men, founding the settlement ...32 KB (4,700 words) - 19:05, 27 April 2024
- forced the larger Independencia to run aground at Punta Gruesa (some historians consider this a different engagement and call it the Battle of ...34 KB (5,333 words) - 22:54, 3 May 2023
