Beach (nautical)

Beach (nautical)

To beach a vessel is to lay ashore, or ground it. This is more usual with small flat-bottomed boats. Larger ships may be beached deliberately, for instance in an emergency a damaged ship might be beached to prevent it sinking in deep water. It was also frequently done during the era of sailing vessels to allow the ship to be rolled over for the hull to be maintained, which is referred to as careening.

ee also

* Ship grounding

References

*cite web | title = beach | work = Dictionary.com | date = | url = http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beach | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-01-03
*cite web | title = beach | work = The Dictionary of English Nautical Language | date = | url = http://www.seatalk.info/cgi-bin/nautical-marine-sailing-dictionary/db.cgi?db=db&view_records=1&uid=default&Term=beach&submit=Look+it+up%21 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 2008-01-03


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