We reached the ship and Dobbin skidded to a halt, but I didn't wait for him to stop.
The rudder was not holding, and the ship was skidding sideways at the pleasure of wind and waves.
The ship skidded into a sand dune, bruised and lifeless.
The ship skidded sideways.
He pulled the lever; the ship skidded alarmingly and thrust off at great speed to the east.
The ship skidded, at last, to a halt.
Suddenly, the intertial dampers were pushed to the brink of their capacity as the ship skidded along the edge of the event horizon.
Straining to hold course, the ship skidded to one side and sent her crew smashing into their consoles.
The ship skidded a couple of dozen meters, stopped, rocked back and forth a few times, and came to rest.
The ship skidded and bucked.
