Ferry aground.SIX people were rescued after a ferry ran aground a·ground adv. & adj. 1. Onto or on a shore, reef, or the bottom of a body of water: a ship that ran aground; a ship aground offshore. 2. off Barmouth yesterday afternoon. The three adults and three children were aboard the Seren Wen, the ferry which shuttles across the Mawddach estuary from Barmouth to Penrhyn Point to connect with the Fairbourne Railway hit the sandbank sand·bank n. A ridge of sand forming a mound, shoal, or hillside. sandbank or sand bar Noun a bank of sand in a sea or river, that may be exposed at low tide Noun 1. at dusk late yesterday afternoon. The resorts inshore lifeboat was launched at 4.45pm. A Barmouth RNLI RNLI (in Britain) Royal National Lifeboat Institution RNLI n abbr (BRIT) (= Royal National Lifeboat Institution) → organización benéfica que proporciona un servicio de lanchas de socorro spokeswoman said the lifeboat crew tried unsuccessfully to refloat Re´float n. 1. Reflux; ebb. Verb 1. refloat - set afloat again; "refloat a grounded boat" float - set afloat; "He floated the logs down the river"; "The boy floated his toy boat on the pond" the ferry. Further attempts to refloat the ferry were to be made at high water early this morning. |
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