THE Gallant Crew at a life-saving station were about to launch their life-boat for a spin along the coast when they discovered, but a little distance away, a
capsized vessel with a dozen men clinging to her keel.
Hiding his canoe, still afloat, among these thickets, with its prow seaward, he sat down in the stern, paddle low in hand; and when the ship was gliding by, like a flash he darted out; gained her side; with one backward dash of his foot
capsized and sank his canoe; climbed up the chains; and throwing himself at full length upon the deck, grappled a ringbolt there, and swore not to let it go, though hacked in pieces.
Men died of whisky; but then, too, fishermen were
capsized and drowned, hoboes fell under trains and were cut to pieces.
The concussion nearly
capsized her, and with a sickening plunge she hurtled downward through the dark night.
Our Jehu had carelessly driven over a heap of gravel and fairly
capsized the coach, with the wheels in the air and our heels where our heads should have been.
If I
capsized now, well, we might go to the bottom together; otherwise the hen-coop and I should not part company in a hurry; and I thought, I felt, that she would float.
The boat was swung on a precipitous mountain of salt water and as quickly
capsized. Granet, breathless for a moment and half stunned, found his way somehow to the side of the marshland, and from there stumbled his way towards the road.
We were both of us
capsized in a second, and both of us rolled, almost together, into the scuppers, the dead red-cap, with his arms still spread out, tumbling stiffly after us.
It chanced that Jean was the first lad to step into the boat; he stumbled, rolled to one side, the boat revolted at his weight and
capsized. Vandenhuten sank like lead, rose, sank again.
Early this month, a fishing boat with four fishermen
capsized between Ziwayuu and Tenewi islands off the Kipini Coast, Tana Delta.
At least 16 persons have drowned and nine others are still missing after a boat
capsized in Rojhan area of Rajanpur district on Tuesday.
Motorboat trips between Guimaras Island and Iloilo City were allowed to resume on Tuesday, 10 days after three boats
capsized in Iloilo Strait and left 31 people dead.