What is "going ashore"

Usage examples of "going ashore".

Then, there had been some point in going ashore, some sense in the way they spent their time: now there was just this sort of place, and a shake-down in a glorified doss-house, and a cup of tea and a meat-pie at the corner cafe.

Time I was going ashore, I thought, and where should I go if not to pay you a visit, my lad!

One evening four Patamoke skipjacks assembled at one of the beds to discuss strategies that might restrain the Virginians, and one captain who had a safe crew, in that none had been shanghaied, said that since he was going ashore, he would telegraph the governor of Maryland, requesting armed force to repulse the Virginian invaders.

One officer who went to Sorrento to see Darby tells this story: After going ashore he went looking for Darby, asking each man wearing the Ranger insignia.

One night the captain (who was one of those fellows mightily addicted to punch), instead of going ashore to saturate himself with rum at the ordinary, had his drink in his cabin in private.

But laugh though he might, he knew as well as Pitt that in going ashore that morning he carried his life in his hands.

Some were for going ashore, others for heading straight to the vessel and there discovering what might be amiss.

I am going ashore now to find where we can refill the water casks that have been contaminated with seawater during the gale.

As was proper, Pryke was going ashore in the hopes of finding timber suitable for small repairs about the ship.