Sentence examples for wash overboard from inspiring English sources

As regards the water, you could wash overboard and drown, fall off a floe and drown, get dragged into the ocean by a kink in the hurtling line of a harpoon and drown.

Three crew members were washed overboard at this time.

FISHING SKIPPER IS LOST.; Washed Overboard From Sloop Near Breton Reef Light.

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One dog was drowned and washed overboard and two ponies died.

Men starved, died of malaria, scurvy and fever, were washed overboard or killed in battle.

"We were barely holding on, afraid of getting washed overboard," Mr. Hertz said.

He said that he had been washed overboard and two other men may have been washed over too.

FIVE OF CREW ARE INJURED One Washed Overboard Is Saved by Rope -- Freighter With Coal, Hove-to Three Days.

On June 19 , 1935 Richard Glover Ames and Henry Russell Ames, brothers and Harvard students, gave their lives to save their father, who was washed overboard during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland.

Hopes are fading in the search for a British yachtsman who washed overboard off the tip of South America during a round-the-world race.