Sentence examples for lost overboard from inspiring English sources

Morgan, June 17, Martin Tensin, seaman, was lost overboard.

His budget transportation arrangements on a freighter, however, resulted in his drumkit being lost overboard – an experience he considered "a baptism".

And in fact nothing in the film rivals the very real catastrophe of the children's wicker basket full of picnic food being lost overboard.

Seb Josse was skipper of ABN Amro 2 in the 2005-06 Volvo round the world race when watch leader Hans Horrovoets was lost overboard on the transatlantic run from Annapolis.

As many as 300 containers were thought to have fallen into the sea, the salvage operators said – more than three times the number lost overboard in the previous three months.

Total industry losses obviously vary from year to year, but these numbers are well below the 2,000 to 10,000 per year that regularly appear publicly, and represent a very small fraction of container loads shipped each year.2 Nevertheless, the industry continues to pursue measures to reduce the number of containers lost overboard to zero.

Richardson is a supporter of the Coalition government's policy of turning back boats: "We don't hear of any incidents where boats have been turned around and lost people overboard.

Barking out commands to us as we drop into a series of frigid waves and frothy, swirling troughs, she guides us through without bashing into a rock, flipping the boat or losing someone overboard.

We lost a queen overboard the second day out and replaced her with a tiny papier-mache Easter bunny that had decorated a box of gift candy.

Emirates Team New Zealand tore the tarp in the center of its catamaran and lost two men overboard before holding on to beat the Italian team Luna Rossa in a scary opener to the Louis Vuitton Cup finals in San Francisco Bay on Saturday.

Following the French lights, Schomberg pursued the French in the darkness and when Clorinde lost a man overboard and stopped to rescue him at 21 50, Roquebert was forced to fall back and protect his consort from being overwhelmed.