Sentence examples for gale struck from inspiring English sources

On the ship's journey, a gale struck, and the captain drowned.

In 1979 a force-ten gale struck unexpectedly in the waters off Fastnet, crashing 40-foot waves over small vessels.

Shortly after the battle had ended, a severe gale struck the area.

The steamship Louisiana reported that a gale struck Matagorda, Texas with "unparalleled fury", with nearly all buildings and vessels in the area destroyed.

Riou ran her aground to prevent her sinking, but a gale struck the coast shortly afterwards, completing the wreck of the Guardian.

When a gale struck the pair on 13 October, Hoche lost several masts and broke her tow, only being prevented from foundering by the combined efforts of the British prize crew and their French prisoners.

Nelson passed through the Straits of Gibraltar and took up position off Toulon by 17 May, but his squadron was dispersed and blown southwards by a strong gale that struck the area on 20 May.

He encounters no perfect storms, though the gale that strikes him toward the end is genuinely harrowing, and will, like Sebastian Junger's, make a permanent landlubber of you.

While Levey was taking a test drive across a suspension bridge he had designed and built, gale-force winds struck.

While in a heavy December gale, the ship was struck by what contemporary news accounts referred to as a "tidal wave" as high as the tops of her funnels.

The town of Santa Lucía Tirajana, host to the annual Grand Slam windsurfing championships, was struck this year with gale force.