Sentence examples for battered vessels from inspiring English sources

The storm battered vessels which were passing through the narrow Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea and Azov Sea.

He disembarked at the quayside at which so many battered vessels packed with migrants have been tied up.

Where once hundreds of fishing boats and dozens of canneries were kept busy by the dense aquatic population of the Barents Sea, the local industry is now down to one forlorn factory and a handful of battered vessels.

The prize was towed to Corfu for repairs, the two battered vessels briefly encountering Mutine, which escaped to the westwards before Généreux could give chase.

In September, Niza's squadron was ordered to join Nelson in his search for the French and sailed eastwards, but while passing to the north of Malta they encountered a large convoy of battered vessels under Captain Sir James Saumarez.

Off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture, swells from the typhoon battered fishing vessels and knocked the captain of one ship overboard.

Despite attempts to escape the storm, large swells exceeding 3.6 m battered the vessels, causing them to pitch up to 59 degrees.

At 16:00, both battered Spanish vessels surrendered, although as the British ships launched boats to take possession of their prizes, the crew of Santa Elena hacked through the anchor cables and allowed their ship to drift onto the rocky shoreline where they disembarked and escaped inland.

There was nothing else to do, except when the storms came and waves battered the vessel, as water sloshed across the deck and passengers frantically bailed it out.

Another important objective of their time in Britain was to repair Half-Safe, which had sustained large amounts of damage during the crossing, not least from Hurricane Charlie, which battered the vessel whilst it was amongst the islands of Macaronesia.

In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his spiritual conversion.