The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beach \Beach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beached (b[=e]cht); p. pr. & vb. n. Beaching.] To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
Wiktionary
n. An event in which a marine animal beaches itself vb. (present participle of beach English)
Wikipedia
Beaching may refer to:
- Cetacean stranding, when a large sea mammal is beached on land
- Beaching (nautical), when a ship is deliberately or inadvertently "run aground"
- Beached (naval), when a seaman or officer is restricted to shore duty
- Beached (festival), a free annual music festival held on the south bay in Scarborough, England
- " Beachin'", a song by Jake Owen
Beaching is the process in which a ship or boat is laid ashore, or grounded deliberately in shallow water. 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 from sinking in deep water. Some vessels are designed to be loaded and unloaded by beaching; vessels of this type used by the military to disembark troops under fire are called landing craft.
During the age of sail vessels were sometimes beached to allow them to be rolled over for the hull to be maintained, a process called careening.
Ships scheduled for break-up are sometimes intentionally beached to make the procedure easier.
Usage examples of "beaching".
It came shooting through the foam just like a beaching canoe and as it dragged itself up the sand a sound like the far off roar of a lion came echoing along the cliffs.
Some 250 of these new escort vessels had been authorized in January 1942, but the shifting of priority work in American shipyards to beaching and landing craft for the cross-Channel operation that never came off so delayed the program that by 2 June only 42 had been launched.
Yet the heroes of the western landings were the crews of the landing and beaching craft, mostly very young reservists, many of whom had never even smelled salt water before 1943.
All these troops and the bulk of their materiel depended, to get ashore safely, on beaching or small landing craft.
The beaching craft, with slightly more experienced leadership, had even more complicated and difficult tasks.
VII Amphibious Force was training in Australia, but as yet it had no LSTs or other beaching craft.
These were shore-to-shore operations, performed largely in the three leading types of beaching craft LST, LCT and LCI, of which Mac-Arthur never had enough.
This was obtained at Sinsapor on 30 July by Admiral ecnteler, commanding 16 destroyer types and numerous beaching craft, mounted at Wakde.
The troops were lifted from the Bay of Naples, largely in beaching craft, and had ample gunfire support.
German mines and bombs sank two cruisers, three destroyers, three LST, one LCI and a hospital ship of the Royal Navy, and two mine craft and six beaching craft of the United States Navy, besides two Liberty ships.
They conducted almost continuous hostilities with the heavily armed German F-lighters163-foot beaching craft similar to the LST and R-boats 85to 115-foot escort vessels.
Since this was a shore-to-shore operation mounted in Corsica, the men were lifted in beaching craft and LCPRs towed by motor launches.
American production schedules had been upset in April 1942 to give top priority to landing and beaching craft for the cross-Channel operation that was canceled, and again in January 1943 schedules were upset to give top priority to ships for antisubmarine warfare.
Although this was a shore-to-shore operation which required only one night spent in the English Channel, big transports with landing craft on davits were employed in addition to beaching craft.
Admiral King denied this and accused the British of dragging their feet in producing or repairing their own beaching and landing craft.