Sentence examples for washed overboard from inspiring English sources

Three crew members were washed overboard at this time.

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.

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

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

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.

The ship's captain told them that he thought she was standing by a ledge on the ship and a wave had washed her overboard.

I was a long time a passenger on a ship called Bigotry but a wave of ignorance washed me overboard onto a small craft of education that brought me to the shore of commonsense.

Pup ordered the anchor up, and as they proceeded across the bay, a sudden squall hit, drenching everything, washing presents overboard, shorting out the Christmas lights, knocking over the tree; whereupon, in the dark and confusion, the yacht went aground.

In early March she escorted Scharnhorst through the Skaggerak to Trondheim in heavy weather that washed two men overboard.