shoalness

By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

The following day was spent in examining a bight, but we were prevented from penetrating to the bottom by the shoalness of the water.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

Tanka means eggboat; they resemble an eggshell divided longitudinally, and are peculiar to Macào, the shoalness of the water preventing a landing in larger vessels.

Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay

The channel had become narrow and shoal, and as I was not prepared for so critical a navigation, the further examination was given up, and we bore up to coast along the eastern shore; but, from the shoalness of the water, we were obliged to sail at so great a distance that its continuity was by no means distinctly traced.

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

By the middle of the next day the yawl was aground, and from the shoalness of the water could not proceed any higher.

Chapter VIII 1909

The Minnesota grounded in the North channel; the shoalness of the water prevented the near approach of the

The end of an era, 1899

Unlike Kobé, where the water permits vessels to lie close to the beach, Osaka is up a river, at the mouth of which is a bar; and, owing to the shoalness of the adjacent sea, the anchorage is a mile or two out.

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

As even the lighter British ships of war could not here navigate, on account of the shoalness, and the troops, to reach the place of debarkation, the Bayou des Pêcheurs, at the head of Lake Borgne, must go sixty miles in open boats, the hostile gun vessels had first to be disposed of.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877

Such conditions were unusually favorable to them, and, though a frigate was within plain sight, she could not get within range on account of the shoalness of water; yet the two hours 'action which followed did no serious injury to the grounded ship.

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 1877