Sentence examples for flooded ship from inspiring English sources
A flooded ship can exhibit undesirable non-linear roll motion even in waves of moderate amplitude.
In order to understand the mechanism of this non-linear phenomenon, the non-linearly coupled dynamics of a ship and flood water are considered using a mathematical model for the simplified motion of a flooded ship in regular beam waves.
Those concerns — underscored in Germany by the discovery of a package bomb from Greece that was found in Chancellor Angela Merkel's mail — are particularly troubling at a time of year when holiday purchases and gifts are flooding shipping agencies.
The explosion bent her armored deck and damaged her keel; some 1700 MT of water flooded the ship, and the damage cut electrical power to the ship's pumping system.
In the English Channel, waves up to 26 ft (8 m) in height breached and flooded a ship; the 31 passengers on board were rescued by helicopters and other ships.
Some 3050 MT of water flooded the ship and caused a 2 degree list to starboard.
Some 2000 MT of water flooded the ship, primarily through the two holes in the side shell created by shell splinters from near misses.
If too many compartments were flooded, the ship's bow would settle deeper in the water, and water would spill from one compartment to the next in sequence, rather like water spilling across the top of an ice cube tray.
Some 1430 MT of water flooded the ship in fuel tanks and void spaces in the double bottom of the port side, which caused a list of one to two degrees, which was balanced by counter-flooding on the starboard side.
Her propeller was designed to be disconnected and hoisted up into the stern of the ship to reduce drag while under sail, but this was rarely done because there was no bulkhead surrounding the hoisting holes which could have flooded the ship if their covers had been removed in even a moderate sea.
Despite their attempts to confuse the satellite's system and cause a misfire on the ship, the attack floods the ship with water.
