Sentence examples for vessels sink from inspiring English sources

Some die by drowning in the sea, after their crude and unseaworthy vessels sink.

Often the boats are covered by thick canopies that shield riders from the sun and rain, but can create an obstacle to safety in emergencies, trapping passengers inside as the vessels sink.

Bong Meneses of the Philippine Rescue Coordinating Center said both vessels sank.

We witness the horror of overcrowded and decrepit trafficking vessels sinking in the Mediterranean, drowning their passengers.

There has also been extensive scavenging of both German and British vessels sunk in the first world war during the battle of Jutland.

After several days of maneuvering, South Korean Navy vessels sank a North Korean torpedo boat with at least a dozen men aboard and also damaged another vessel on June 15 , 1999

Researchers at Bangor University are using the £2.8 million research vessel Prince Madog to survey hundreds of vessels sunk in the First and Second World Wars, as well as later wrecks.

The vessels sank off Pauktaw township in Rakhine state late on Monday.

Offshore, nine people drowned after two Chinese vessels sank.

They claimed 104 vessels sunk and 72 damaged.

Offshore, 300 vessels sank while the resulting inland floods killed 14 people.