Collision with an iceberg and the subsequent foundering of the ship.
It thus appears that the Marconi apparatus was at work until within a few minutes of the foundering of the Titanic.
Every sail was spread, and every exertion made to urge the founderingship to land.
The storm subsided, but left her a mere foundering wreck.
Amused by himself as he always was, he was much too curious at witnessing his sudden desultory moods of asphyxiating stagnation andfoundering desperation within to ever be seriously suicidal.
It was founderingin its debt as a dying empire and the entire country sickened him.
Still seated on the now half-vacant bench of the monument, he was foundering inside himself in a melancholy that contaminated his bounty as an oil spill a lagoon.
The old religion was to end by foundering in magic.
He called up his past life, and what struck him most, and saddened him, was the foundering of all his human hopes.
With spars and oars, the seamen forced the raft away from the foundering hull.
Still the danger of foundering was to be feared, for, what with the torrents of rain from the skies, and the opening leaks, the little vessel was rapidly filling with water.
This night's work had torn the mast and rudder, and many a plank besides, from that foundering vessel, the town of Memphis.
Now, gentlemen, sweeping a ship's deck at sea is a piece of household work which in all times but raging gales is regularly attended to every evening; it has been known to be done in the case of ships actually foundering at the time.
I know little, except what I have heard, of thefoundering of the Ramona," was the answer.
As the capital, Basseterre, was a town of more than ten thousand population, it might reasonably be expected that some news of the foundering of the Ramona would be received there.
By this time Jack and the others had finished their little discussion, and were eager to further question the captain concerning all the details he could give about the foundering of the Ramona.
The Danish physician had given good advice, and now Jack was even better than when he received the news of the foundering of the Ramona.
Still it was the nearest land of any description, and land is eagerly sought for by those on board a foundering ship.
Here at least we have a com- paratively solid platform beneath our feet, and we are re- lieved from the incessant dread of being carried down with a foundering vessel.
Heaven grant that we may not be called to make like efforts, and to make them hopelessly, for a foundering ship!
As things were, he saw his happiness foundering while he looked on: there was nothing to be done.
Of all the heavy, swift work he had done for the safety of his crew after the foundering Dave gave only the barest sketch.
I know what it is to be on board a foundering ship in the midst of the stormy ocean, darkness around, strong men crying out for fear of death, the boats swamped alongside.
The sea, after the foundering of the frigate, had gone down, and several casks had floated, which had been secured by the occupants of the raft.
The derelict was a schooner, a lifeless and soddened hulk, so heavy and uncontesting that its foundering seemed at hand.
The waters moved in from the outer with the ease of certain conquest, and the foundering shores vanished under each uplifted send of the ocean.
The flood swept us, brawling round the gear, foundering the hatch.
The admiral now stood, in despair, for the island of Jamaica, to seek some secure port; for there was imminent danger of foundering at sea.
For a day and night the heavens glowed as a furnace with the incessant flashes of lightning; while the loud claps of thunder were often mistaken by the affrighted mariners for signal guns of distress from their foundering companions.
I have heard that the gulf, whichfoundering vessels leave, swallows all lesser objects that are floating nigh!
Already the knowledge that the old Calder was slowly founderinghad become general, yet there was no panic.
At whatever cost the Warrior had to be saved from foundering if human efforts were capable of such a herculean task.
Having rowed a safe distance from the foundering vessel, the men rested on their oars, and waited in silence for the end.
Like a greyhound, the Capella increased her speed, until she was within a quarter of a mile of the foundering vessel.
As the ship is foundering we will go on deck, but when a man is so conspicuous as David Lockwin, how can he commit suicide--how can he disappear?
Oh, yes, the ship is foundering because Corkey is in the way of this great business.
The dreadful sight stimulated me to superhuman exertion, for I believed I was still perilously near that great sinking mass; and indeed I had scarcely covered another dozen yards when I felt the strong suction of the foundering ship.
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