Significados de dangerous shoal en inglés

A pilot was taken on board; for there is a dangerous shoal in the harbour.

That's a light-ship on the dangerous shoal called the Shambles, where many a good vessel has gone to pieces.

Finding a dangerous shoal and bad anchoring ground, with a lee shore and westerly current, we stood off on the 21st for Madagascar.

They were afraid of being wrecked on the rocks, for in the violence of the storm they discovered land, and a dangerous shoal before them.

This channel is now much used by the coasting trade, as it avoids the long detour round Breaksea Spit, a most dangerous shoal.)

These are the Floating Lights which mark the position of our extensive and dangerous shoals.

The tender and the periago were anchored near these dangerous shoals, and the work went on from them.

Shielded by nature with dangerous shoals, and fortified by art with powerful batteries, they seemed rather to invite, than to dread, any hostile attack.

At the present time thousands of lighthouses, light-ships, and light-buoys guide the navigator along the waterways and into harbors and warn him of dangerous shoals.

Soon however as they sailed south they found themselves among dangerous shoals and roaring breakers, and, being in terror of shipwreck, they turned back again.

He passed an island which he named St Catherine, and which he warned all mariners to avoid because of dangerous shoals that lay about it.

"The vessel ran aground at the Meloria, a dangerous shoal outside Leghorn, and through the stupidity of her captain was very nearly lost."

"Ancient history, yes, ma'am." He said it fast and smooth, as if he had passed the dangerous shoals and come out into calm waters.

"You can, at least, answer one of my questions more directly: Is this wind sufficiently favourable to pass the dangerous shoals of the Hatteras?"