Sentence examples for a gale in from inspiring English sources

The Whydah, with 180 to 210 men aboard, sank in a gale in 1717.

But it comes as a shock to an industry that until now has had a gale in its sails.

After weathering a gale in the Drake Passage, the Hero approached the relatively tranquil waters of the Bransfield Strait, which is sheltered from the Southern Ocean by the South Shetland Islands, at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

As early as 1843, Judge Sprague in Clapp v. Young, held a schooner liable which broke adrift from her moorings in a gale in Provincetown Harbor, and ran down another ship.

So if there was a storm, there I was, out alone on the harbor in a gale in november at night, with runaway yachts surfing past me on their way from a broken mooring to wreck on the rocks.

To keep ahead of the Teignmouth Electron, now reportedly coming up fast behind him, the ex-naval commander piled on the canvas, ploughing through a gale in the mid-Atlantic to maintain his position as race leader.

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At the Bishop Rock Light, on the English Channel, during a winter gale in 1860 a bell was wrenched from its attachment, a hundred feet above high water.

Outside, a gale howled in off the North Sea.

Despite both aircraft being damaged in a gale at Bourke in northern New South Wales while returning to base, the expedition was considered a success.

"The massive, mighty trees were waving like a wheat-field in an autumn gale in England," she reports in Travels in West Africa (1897).