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After this failed, he devised a collapsable boat, which would either have its cabin fall in or become shipwrecked.
PT-167 ( Elco ) was holed through the bow off New Georgia on August 10, 1943, by a torpedo which failed to detonate ; the boat remained in action and was repaired the next day.
Bennett's men rode into Owensboro, tried and failed to rob a local bank, took 13 Union soldiers of the 108th Coloured Infantry prisoner, executed them, burned the bodies on a supply boat and escaped back to Tennessee having covered a total of on horseback inside six days.
Although Webb failed in an attempt at raising interest in funding the event, on 24 July 1883 he jumped into the river from a small boat located near the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge and began his swim.
After a failed rendezvous with a submarine, they arrived by boat at Termoli, then went on to Bari where they were welcomed as guests by General Alexander on 21 December 1943.
Finally, in 1797 he went to Bordentown, New Jersey ( a stop on Fitch ’ s failed Philadelphia to Trenton passenger service ), because it was “ sickly in New York ,” and built a boat employing two side-mounted paddle wheels.
As the ferry approached the dock, the reverse thrust failed to respond and the boat could not slow down.
He went to Bush's Texas ranch to deliver a swift boat ad complaint, but the event failed to have much impact.
During subsequent testing, the second cylinder failed too, and the boat lift was closed for six months while sections of both cylinders were replaced and the connecting pipework, which was thought to have contributed to the cylinders ' failure, was redesigned.
The first business there was a copper smelting industry ; that failed because it received only sporadic copper delivered via boat from Cornwall.
One of them had tried and failed to rescue other comrades who were still trapped under the boat.
The boat failed and was dismantled and cached July 10.
* July 10 to July 15 – Established canoe camp to construct 2 new dugout canoes to replace failed iron frame boat.
Certainly, the local minister and his son were on board and the latter reported the trial to Robert Cleland of Glasgow, who wrote that the trial failed and the boat had to be helped by hand cranks.
To Smith's mortification, the boat failed to arrive until it was too late to be of any use and, besides, took up a position too distant for her fire to be of much effect.
Sangkuriang was fooled, and upon believing that he had failed, kicked the dam and the unfinished boat, resulting in severe flooding and the creation of Tangkuban Perahu from the hull of the boat.
The first two boats failed to inflict any damage, but the third boat set the General Sherman afire.
The Vietnamese pairing failed to finish within 15 seconds of the next-fastest boat in all three races, and were in last place at every checkpoint.
( Mike isn't transferring, Lou has changed his mind about the boat after discovering he lacked " sea legs ," and Franco has failed a lieutenant's exam.
Here however, the interpretation constitutes a risk for the modern observer: a confrontation between two warriors can be as well a Homeric duel as a simple combat ; a failed boat can represent the shipwreck of Odysseus or any hapless sailor.
The boat had been scheduled to leave on the noon tide the previous day but her departure was delayed because her port engine clutch failed.
The Indian Navy observes furthered noted that the " PAF pilots failed to recognize the difference between a large PNS Zulfikar frigate and small Osa missile boat .".

boat and sink
* If a storm or wave capsizes a small monohull, it may recover when the weight of the ballast in the keel rights the boat, if it does not broach and sink before it recovers.
This originated in 1983 when a Murdoch-sponsored yacht collided with Turner's boat during the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, causing it to sink 10 km from the finish line.
Plug's tactics were to sneak aboard, personally, or have one of his pirates, secretly, go into the hull of a boat and either, dig out the caulking between the floor planks or drill holes with an auger, causing the boat to sink and be easily attacked.
It contains the direct-manipulation tactical combat now common in that the players can assume direct control over a PT boat and sink the opponent's fishing boats.
On the Sicilian island of Lipari, The St. Joseph legend is modified somewhat, and says that sailors returning from the mainland encountered a fierce storm that threatened to sink their boat.
The clay boat began to sink, so the badger tried to escape, but then the rabbit hit him in the head with an oar, knocking him out and making him drown.
After being ordered to fire warning shots from her 50 calibre machinegun to make the boat turn back she saw it beginning to break up and sink with a father on board holding out his young daughter that she might be saved ( see Children Overboard Affair ).
However, a legend claims that during the Bumps in that year, the rowers of Trinity's arch-rivals, St John's College, attached a sword to the front of one of their boats such that if they successfully bumped the boat in front ( which turned out to be one of Second Trinity's ), it would be holed and sink.
The plan supposedly worked in the sense that the Trinity boat did sink, but in the process the sword also hit and killed Second Trinity's cox, which of course wasn't intended.
The second, more powerful explosion, designed to sink the boat, caused a huge inrush of seawater and drowned Fernando.
Before it reaches the shore, the boat begins to sink and Ruth jumps off to pull it along to the pier before it sinks, though doing so causes her to suffer injuries from the lake's acidity.
F-8 Crusaders sink a North Vietnamese torpedo boat.
U. S. Navy aircraft attack Iraqi Navy ships ; A-6Es sink a Zhuk-class patrol boat and Spasilac-class minelayer and cause a minesweeper taking evasive action to strike an Iraqi mine and sink, and a force of A-6Es and F / A-18 Hornets hit four ships in an attack on Umm Qasr naval base.
* February 14 – U. S. Navy A-6E Intruders sink an Iraqi Navy Osa-class missile boat in Kuwait Bay, the last Iraqi naval loss of the Gulf War.
This had not been implemented, and so the lower caisson would not sink deep enough for either boat to be floated out.
Their boat hits a rock and starts to sink, while Glen, Annie, and Randolph set out to find them in Randolph's boat and radio for help.
* Crashing the helicopter into a boat will either cause the boat to sink or start a boat rescue mission.
The hole would have a small piece of cork ( Bunge ) in the hole while in use by the owner ; when it was not in use the owner would remove the bunge so if unwanted visitors decided to take the boat they would sink.

boat and from
He came to Fleischmanns directly from the boat that brought him to America from Russia.
Would the man with an empty life boat row away from a shipwreck because his boat could not pick up everyone??
It is a simple task to haul a boat fifty or one hundred miles to a lake or reservoir on the new, light, strong, easy-to-operate trailers which are built to accommodate almost any kind of small boat and retail from $100 to $2,000.
Designers and manufacturers have produced models for purchasers who run the gamut from a nautical version of the elderly Pasadena lady who never drove more than five miles an hour on her once-a-month ride around the block, to the sportiest boatman who insists on all the dash, color, flair and speed possible to encompass in a single boat.
These engines can be removed from a boat with relative ease, wherein lies their greatest advantage.
If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.
In the first trial an inert substance was disseminated from a boat travelling some ten miles off shore under appropriately selected meteorological conditions.
Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.
The rock and roll music coming from the radio station suddenly faded as the boat coasted into the null on the Aj.
And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.
This is linked to the term to weigh anchor, meaning to lift the anchor from the sea bed, allowing the ship or boat to move.
Then, taking in on the first cable as the boat is motored into the wind and letting slack while drifting back, a second anchor is set approximately a half-scope away from the first on a line perpendicular to the wind.
The Mariner's Cross is also referred to as St. Clement's Cross, in reference to the way this saint was martyred ( being tied to an anchor and thrown from a boat into the Black Sea in 102 ).
Travel from place to place is typically accomplished by snowmobile, snow machine, boat, or dog sled.
The baidara ( large skin boat ) was a large open walrus skin-covered boat used by Aleut families to travel from island to island, as well as, transport goods for trade and warriors to battle.
The ferry boat from Tomioka Port in Reihoku, sailing north to Mogi in Nagasaki Prefecture, is operated by Yasuda Sangyo Kisen Co. Ltd.
A cemetery and rubble from earlier settlements are located near the middle of the west coast, where the boat landing area is located.
The pop science TV program MythBusters attempted to model Archimedes ' feat by using mirrors to ignite a small wooden boat covered with tar, with only partial success — they found it too difficult to focus light from their hand-held mirrors onto a point small enough to ignite the boat.

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