The remark was overheard and treasured up by some of the crew; and a night or two afterwards the steamer ran aground on the bar in the attempt to enter Cape Fear River, and was deserted.
Next morning the "Agnes Fry," an inward bound blockade-runner, was discovered aground on the western bar.
As to employment, I do in my soul believe that if I were Lord Chancellor of England, I should have been aground long ago, for the patronage of a messenger's place.
We had now been aground about four hours, and the enemy had amused himself by firing at us for about two hours and a half.
Apelles ran aground about eighteen miles to the westward of Boulogne, as also did H.
I chased them, with the exception of one, who ran aground near Calais, into that port.
In front are the houses at the end of Quay Street, and to the left is the South Pier; between this and the shore two ships are perceived aground at the entrance of the inner harbour, which is nearly dry at low water.
She had gone aground at her stern in swinging, in the water the Portuguese rascal gave her, canted a little over to starboard, away from the shore; and till morning flood nothing could be done to haul her off.
If I have got aground by my own stupidity, I shall get off again in time.
Her heart was heavy; misfortune was approaching her, invisible but unavoidable, just as it did when he had told her that the vessel would run aground in ten minutes or a quarter of an hour.
Besides, it is by no means sure that the Fram can get in there at all; it would be a very tiresome business if she went aground in these waters.
Between the land and the blocks of stranded ice on our lee there appeared to be a channel with rather deeper water and not so much ice aground in it.
He roared to his men to fire and to fight, no matter whether they were still aground or not, and with many oaths he vowed that if any one of them showed but a sign of weakening he would cut him down upon the spot.
Here was an unusual condition--three ships of war all aground and about to begin a battle, a battle which would probably last for five hours if one or more of the stationary vessels were not destroyed before that time.
The captain was to pick us up about noon at a woodpile about a mile from here; but if in the mean time the steamer should run aground and he should need his canoe, a three whistle signal would be given.
Of the other two vessels of the fleet, the flagship runs aground in Japan, but the crew are saved.
They ran aground stern first on the coast of Camarines, which was very near by, and which they had been prevented from reaching by a calm, and had been awaiting a slight breeze.
They suffered terrible storms, and ran manifest dangers; especially when, running with the lower sail on the foremast, they ran aground on an island, which they had not seen because of a dense fog.
While in this condition, and with a cargo of lumber, unexpectedly so furious a wind sprang up on the sea, that the ship ran aground without being able to make any resistance.
At length they came up to the boat: but it is impossible to express their confusion when they found the boat fastaground in the creek, the tide ebbed out, and their two men gone.
While the vessel wasaground nine Tunguses came on board.
For various small species go together in great shoals; and, as they occasionally come into water so shallow that they are left aground at ebb, they can be killed with ease.
I have no knowledge of the goods which the Zaritza had on board when she ran aground at the mouth of the Yenisej.
Onward again, and now a thick fog envelopes them, and in a few minutes the Bluebell has run aground and refuses to budge.
But this runningaground becomes an almost every day occurrence, so that at last they quite look forward to the order to strip and plunge.
Presently I had news that the ship was aground on a sandspit on Accomac, and had been plundered by a pirate brigantine.
The skipper was honesty itself, and it was plain that the pirate who had chased the ship aground and then come aboard to plunder, had done it to do me hurt, and me alone.
The mail-steamer Isla de Mindanao was aground off Las Piñas, and being armed as a cruiser the Americans fired on her and she was soon ablaze.
Only the two cruisers Isla de Cuba and Isla de Luzon remained in fighting condition, but the position was so hopeless that Admiral Montojo ordered them to run aground in the Bay of Bacoor.
Some of the craft ran agroundat Napíndan, the entrance to the lake, and delayed the little flotilla until daylight.
When we were all ready, we laid the ship aground upon a hard sand, the upper end of the harbour, and shored her up on each side.
The ram Manasses came down on the flag-ship, and Admiral Farragut got aground while trying to avoid her.
Powerful ran aground in attempting to come up Klip River; feared total loss.
Of the other National vessels in the Roads, one got aground in water too shallow for the Merrimac to approach her, and the others were not drawn into the fight.
He sent an eleven-inch shot through one of them, and she ran aground and burst into a blaze.
The Hartford received and returned a heavy fire from the forts, got aground on a shoal while trying to avoid a fire-raft, and a few minutes later had another raft pushed against her, which set her on fire.
Ben Fison [Bienfaisant] of 64 guns, the Prudon [Prudent] 74 guns being aground was set on fire.
This attack was to be supported by the Centurion, moored in the north channel, and by two armed cats which were to be run aground as near as possible to some small redoubts, the first object of the attack.
Surely she would come aground a few miles further down the shore.
This helped them to draw their boat in closer, and they managed to get the "Merry Maid" half aground on a shelf of sand.
But for knowin' the channel well's I do, I might 'a' been aground myself.
Suppose he had lost his bearings in the fog; tossed aimlessly on the sea for a day and a night; and then run agroundat her doorstep?
Hidden by fog he had escaped in his boat and inadvertently run aground at the mouth of Wilton Harbor.
The chap who ran aground on the Crocker Cove sand bar?
They passed through the Inlet without running the Fairy Belle aground or seeing anything alarming; and it was not until the broad Atlantic opened before them that the long-expected hail came.
Fearing that we would run aground on rocky ground, they let go four anchors from the stern, and wished for daylight.
Fearing that they would run aground on the Syrtis sand bars, they lowered the sea anchor, and so were driven along.
