fall aboard

One of them grabbed me as I fell aboard.

When she fell aboard some poor unoffending ship it was the very devil of a job to haul her off again.

Flying-fish are beginning to be seen, and during the night the watch above scrambles over the deck in pursuit of those that fall aboard.

Again a silence fell aboard the ship.

He fingered the swollen injury on his head, from his fall aboard Osprey.

Also during his last voyage, a mate of Roy's named Jesus had a fatal fall aboard ship.

I was awakened at five by the thunder of seas that fell aboard, rushed down the main deck, and crashed against the cabin wall.

The falls aboard Boat 13 jammed and had to be cut free to allow the boat to get away safely from the side of Titanic.

I looked for'ard, and I saw all for'ard blotted out by the mountain of water that fell aboard.

With such men, if only they could get before the wind, and if only they could fall aboard the American, they might carry her yet.

A string of gulls passed overhead, uttering their usual coarse cynical laughter; droppings fell aboard; and so they ran.

Kelp reclined at his leisure on a coil of rope, back against the side rail that had so betrayed Dortmunder as he fell aboard.

Everyone is sceptical about his claims, when suddenly a Pteranodon exhausted from its long flite, falls aboard the ships deck, proving his story to be true.

Shortly after this all hands were called to fend off a Dutch buss that had fallen aboard the Leopard's quarter in spite of all the yelling and gunfire.

Her next memory began some time later, beneath the light of home, with the sounds and the smells of home around her, strapped down in free fall aboard the web ramship Morven.

Nothing was to be seen nor heard save the white-flecked dark water on our deck, the roar of the gale in our rigging, and the crash and thunder of seas falling aboard.

Cacafuego's backstays had fallen aboard, fouling the carriage of a gun; he passed it round a stanchion and as he looked up a swarm of Spaniards appeared on the Cacafuego's side.

Conflicting currents tore about in all directions, colliding, forming whirlpools, sucks, and boils, and shooting up spitefully into hollow waves which fell aboard as often from leeward as from windward.

On Friday, 4 February 1955 Customs Inspector George M. Bacon was killed when he tripped and fell aboard the USS Shadwell, which was docked in Hampton Roads.

In doing so the French line fell into confusion, with Intrépide, Superbe and Greenwich falling aboard each other, and were heavily cannonaded by Augusta and Edinburgh until they were able to untangle themselves.

She had fallen aboard the Trade's Increase by night, when they were lying-to off the Lizard, and had carried away her bowsprit; and when they met with a strong south-wester in the Bay of Biscay she rolled her mizenmast out.

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So frightful was the speed with which we displaced the water, that a wave rose up on either side our bow and foamed aft in a series of three stiff, up-standing waves, while astern a great crested billow pursued us hungrily, as though at each moment it would fall aboard and destroy us.