Within minutes, the ship slipped over onto its side, broke into pieces and sank, they said.
As the sun set, the cruise ship slipped away, leaving a comparatively quiet town behind for Jessie and me to explore.
Official accounts describe the men singing and performing a traditional death dance on deck as the ship slipped below the waves.
Fifteen minutes after liftoff, the cargo ship slipped into its planned preliminary orbit, prompting enthusiastic applause in the Japanese control center.
On 11 March, the North Korea-registered ship slipped out of the Libyan port of Es Sider during a storm and headed out into the Mediterranean.
Doreen Carvajal of the International Herald Tribune visits the Titanic village and John F. Burns of The New York Times visits the town where the ship slipped her moorings on her tragic maiden voyage.
A wiry, weather-beaten figure, El Gallo, clad in a black tank top and sombrero, is first glimpsed smoking a cigarette and gazing over the Havana harbor as a cargo ship slips into port.
The ship slipped smoothly and silently past the northern tip of Manhattan, where Hudson anchored on Sept. 12, 1609 (and, Jouet wrote in the journal, where they encountered a flotilla of 28 canoes filled with men, women and children, but "saw the intent of their treachery and would not allow any of them to come aboard").
Here's a major change that took place so gradually, yet inevitably, that the CRT's demise was like a sinking ship slipping beneath the waves.
On Saturday, a Philippine government ship slipped past Chinese coast guard vessels to reach the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, known as Ayungin in Manila and Ren'ai Reef in Beijing.
