Sentence examples for pier strike from inspiring English sources

The pier strike damaged two vertical support pilings, two horizontal beams and cross bracings about a quarter of a mile from shore.

An earlier version said that Hastings pier had been struck by lightning and shut for good.

Protesters also tried to save that pier, with hunger strikes, petitions and peaceful resistance.

The rivers were frozen solid; so thick indeed was the ice that the firemen had to cut through it to clear the ends of the pier before they could strike water.

Coastguard rescue teams rescued passengers and crew from a ferry that struck a pier in the Hampshire town of Hythe.

The first boat struck a pier at North Moore Street and flipped over, dumping three BookExpo conventioneers, two instructors and two others into 60-degree water, according to the Fire Department.

In 2003, a dredger struck the pier, severely damaging the 640-metre-long structure that runs from the centre of Hythe out into the deep water channel of Southampton Water.

Captain Gansas has been a central figure because it is not clear where he was in the moments before the ferry struck the pier at the St. George Terminal on Staten Island.

The witness was on a tugboat and said he saw Captain Gansas running across the top of the ferry -- from the Manhattan pilothouse to the Staten Island pilothouse -- after the vessel struck the pier.

The lives of three hundred waltzers and almost as many spectators, at Clason's Point, in the Bronx, were imperiled last night [May 23] in a stampede when a blazing lumber laden lighter barely missed striking the pier on which the dancing pavillion stands.

The ferry's captain, Michael J. Gansas, has told investigators he was in the pilothouse with Captain Smith at the time of the crash and tried to pull him from the controls and prevent the vessel from striking the pier, officials have said.