#ship aground

[oledavyjones]

One day in 1895, the steamer SS Stockholm ran aground at Skagen, the northern cape of Jutland, and the rescue crews consisting of local fishermen brought out the rescue boats. Not much drama; it was a calm day and nobody was really ever in danger. But it was good practice.

1895

[charlesmccain]

US Navy Ship Runs Aground Written Off as Total Loss

USS Guardian runs aground. Navy writes ships off as complete loss 130129-N-ZZ999-033SULU SEA (Jan. 29, 2013) Heavy waves crash against the grounded mine countermeasure ship USS Guardian (MCM 5), which ran aground on the Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea on Jan. 17. The grounding and subsequent heavy waves constantly hitting Guardian have caused severe damage, leading the Navy to determine the…

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[ldsalasthecartoonking]

Inspirational thought.

At times you'll find that things are bad and getting slowly worse.  In those situations in which the fault is nobody's but your own, you stand culpable of your own mistakes and can't blame others if they had no stake in it.  You've run your ship aground, stranded on the rocks, and the tide is rapidly leaving you.  Or you may find yourself only just beginning to build your ark right as the rains begin.  It's in those moments that you'll find your mettle tested thoroughly.  Don't ever give in to despair, no matter how dark the road ahead looks.  Remember that if the foundation of a building is good, then everything else can be good, too, albeit with some work done.  If you can yet make things work, make things right, and solve your own problems (sometimes with a little help from your friends or family), then there's no reason to despair.  All you need is to stop sulking and start acting: rather than cringe in fear and whimper stupidly as to what you could-would-should have done, you take arms and do.  Your ship may have run aground, but even a ship on the rocks can yet be taken out to sea.  And even boats built as the floods start may yet come to pass.

How did I learn this, you ask?  I stupidly thought it'd be okay to be lazy in an intensive higher-level Spanish class.

[adventures-of-the-blackgang]

"Ten days later the captain comes ashore in the breeches buoy..."

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[adventures-of-the-blackgang]

German Gunboat SMS Adler Overturned on the reef, on the western side of Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, soon after the March 1889 Apia cyclone.

Note her battered hull, well for hoisting propeller, rescue bouy mounted on her stern, and decorative windows painted on her quarters.

Adler before the Hurricane

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