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ship and runs
* 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.
The destroyer fires on the ship, which runs using its diesel engine, but takes heavy damage from the destroyer's deck guns and starts to flood.
* July 17, 1816 – The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
* July 17 – The French passenger ship Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
* February 15 – The British Royal Navy ship HMS Royal Katherine runs aground off Bolt Head in England with the loss of 699 lives.
The Ponte Girevole ( swing bridge ), built in 1887, runs across the navigable ship canal that joins Mar Piccolo ( Little Sea ) with Mar Grande ( Big Sea ) and stretches along 89. 9 meters or 294. 95 ft.
Technically superior to its two predecessors, XvT runs on Windows, requires a joystick ( the others could be played with a mouse ), features a CD audio soundtrack, supports high resolution graphics, brings texture mapping to the ship models of the in-flight game engine, includes robust multiplayer options for up to eight players in free-for-all, team-based, and cooperative play modes, and has a sophisticated pilot and mission selection system that tracks the player's points and awards.
Now Hollis is homeport to the IFA's first ship, the M / V Prince of Wales which makes daily runs between Hollis and Ketchikan.
After crossing the Rainbow Harbor Channel, the road runs along another island before crossing over the Great Egg Harbor Thoroughfare ( part of the Intracoastal Waterway ) and then a ship channel on another high-level bridge, where the route enters Somers Point in Atlantic County.
The crew are just caretakers: the ship is controlled by a disembodied human brain, called " Organic Mental Core " or " OMC ", that runs the complex operations of the vessel and keeps it moving in space.
One ship of the United States Navy has been named USS Wyoming in honor of the Wyoming Valley in eastern Pennsylvania that runs along the Susquehanna River.
The droplets will fall as before into the vessel beneath without dropping toward the stern, although while the drops are in the air the ship runs many spans.
On a fateful night the ship runs aground on a reef and sinks.
During Balian's journey to Jerusalem his ship runs aground in a storm, leaving Balian and a horse as the only survivors.
As reported by his second in command, Commander Wilmot Fawkes, the ship carried out 150 runs with torpedoes in a fortnight, whereas the whole rest of the navy only performed 200 in a year.
The downed pilot then disembarks his crashed ship, runs down to the Valkyrie's cockpit, and knocks on the crew entry door ; the player can then open up and let the pilot in to complete the rescue.
Beka Valentine and her crew often use the ship to make risky and illegal cargo runs, before rescuing Dylan Hunt from a black hole and joining his crew.
This gives larger ship classes a fighting chance against fighters, yet fighter strafing runs also become more deadly against larger ship classes.
A small " shortcut " channel, the " Banana Cut ", runs between the islands, providing a slightly shorter route through the lake ; this is used by canal launches and yachts to cut a little time off the crossing, and to avoid the heavy ship traffic.
The unarmed Callahan evades his pursuers within the darkened ship, but not before he beats Astrachan to death as the vigilante runs out of ammunition.
This amounted to a strategic defeat, as it ended Japanese attempts to resupply the Aleutian garrisons by surface ship, leaving only submarines to conduct supply runs.
In 1974, the Public Transport Commission in charge of Sydney Ferries launched and named their new ship the " Lady Wakehurst ", which was restored in 2006 and still runs as a charter ship on Sydney Harbour.

ship and aground
For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's 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.
The Judia (" Jewess ", for the ancestry of its owner Fernão de Loronha ) was the Portuguese ship that discovered the feature by running aground on it in 1506.
An illicit fire at a wrong position would be used to direct a ship against shoals or beaches, so that its cargo could be looted after the ship sank or ran aground.
The Norwegian gunboat ran aground on one of the islands ' many uncharted lava reefs and the 68 man crew abandoned ship and joined the Norwegian team on shore.
Likewise the crew of a Jordanian ship, MV Farah III, that ran aground near LTTE-controlled territory off the island's coast, accused the Tamil Tigers of risking their lives and forcing them to abandon the vessel which was carrying 14, 000 tonnes of Indian rice.
* 1686 — a Spanish, French, or Spanish-French ship ran aground on Rockall.
In 2007, the cruise ship MS Sea Diamond ran aground and sank inside the caldera.
* The transport ship Dispatch ran aground on the Manacles in 1809 on its return from the Peninsular War, losing 104 men from the 7th Hussars.
On the way home, he spots another ship aground on rocks, rescues the crew and later salvages the cargo.
A second expedition, one ship of about 40 men, led by Leif's brother Thorvald, sets out in the autumn after Leif's return and stays over three winters at the new base ( Leifsbúðir (- budir ), meaning Leif's temporary shelters ), exploring the west coast of the new land in the first summer, and the east coast in the second, running aground and losing the ship's keel on a headland they christen Keel Point ( Kjalarnes ).
In 1889, Streeter and his common-law wife, Maria, moved into a larger ship that had run aground in the District and named it the Castle.
The enormous ship eventually surfaces, lifting many of the naval ships out of the water and leaving them aground on the NTI ship's hull, as well as the platform itself.
To keep from being pushed aground, they kept their bow into the wind with the engines running half to full in turns, yet the ship still drifted before its movement was arrested.
* Liberty, a ship which ran aground at Pendeen in 1952 ( see List of shipwrecks in 1952 )
En route to the Holy Land, the ship carrying Berengaria and Joan went aground off the coast of Cyprus, and they were threatened by the island's ruler, Isaac Comnenus.
On 3 April 2010, The Shen Neng 1, a Chinese ship carrying 950 tonnes of oil, ran aground, causing the 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill.
Upon returning to Ulster some time afterwards, his ship ran aground on a volcanic dyke by the shore, which became loosely known as " Carraig Fhearghais " – the rock of Fergus.
Cargo ship and boats aground at Bayou La Batre, Alabama, after Hurricane Katrina.
* Picture of ship M / V Caribbean Clipper: aground with crane in Bayou La Batre.

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