As they finally near their destination, the engine fails; caught by wind and tide on a lee shore, it falls to Marshall to find and fix the problem, practically beating the elderly engine into submission to get it to run.
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The Master, who had command of the vessel for the previous two years, found it impossible to make for deeper water and the Hibernia became trapped on a lee shore, a dangerous situation for any vessel but especially a sailing vessel.
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On the night of 23 December 1775, making for the Cove of Cork in a heavy gale, she mistook Robert's Cove for the entrance to the harbour, and was driven onto a lee shore at Reannie's Bay, a few miles distant.
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This tactic was Ormonde s preference, but Major-General Sir Charles O Hara insisted that a landing on the isthmus was inadvisable unless the navy could guarantee the landing of supplies on a daily basis, which, because of the lee shore, they could not.
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"Arago " was surveying under Lieutenant Edwin J . De Haven, USN, Assistant in the Coast Survey, on the Texas coast when on May 15, 1855 anchors dragged off a lee shore as the ship was landing materials for signals and the ship was grounded.
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Since dragging your anchor is the greatest fear of any sailor becalmed on a lee shore, I paid special attention to the combined effort of the newspaper industry to reassert relevance in the new economy, which to many newspaper proprietors is the Yeee-economy, or the Yikes-look-out-below economy.
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His lieutenant Robert Baynes and the gunner John Bulkeley had argued that it was too dangerous to approach a target on the lee shore in a disabled ship with just 12 men fit for duty and so they should instead head toward Juan Fernandez in the open ocean.
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Towards the close of the long French war, Paget, while cruising in the " Endymion " on the coast of Spain, sighted a French ship-of-the-line in imminent danger, embayed among rocks upon a lee shore, bowsprit and foremast gone, and riding by a stream cable, her only remaining one.
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Captain William Kent of " Buffalo " signaled for the flotilla to take in their sails and ride out the storm; on the following morning the crew of " Integrity " discovered that they had lost sight of all three other vessels and were running dangerously close to a lee shore.
