The running fight lasted for more than an hour before the falling tide forced the British to seek deeper water.
12.
At 16 : 00 the falling tide forced them to return to their former anchorage under fire from shore batteries.
13.
They were unsuited to tidewater ports because they could not adjust for rising and falling tides, and few were so used.
14.
A German minesweeper M412 was aground and could not be freed from the falling tide; it was destroyed using a sea mine.
15.
They would also have been used to carry supplies directly ashore during the six hours of falling tide when the barges were grounded.
16.
Stranded on sand in a falling tide with a storm approaching, the captain evacuated the 896 passengers to Astoria, Oregon, on local boats.
17.
We moved out of the quiet waters of Shinnecock and into the ocean where a falling tide and an east wind created a molar-rattling chop.
18.
At 09 : 30, the falling tide forced the British ships to retreat off-shore, Laforey gathering his vessels approximately northeast of the beached French convoy.
19.
Due to the high tides, the harbor can only be used for 4 to 6 hours at a time on the rising and falling tides.
20.
According to the coroner's report, the accident occurred on a falling tide, so the current was flowing from the south west to the north east.
