What is "refloat"

Usage examples of "refloat".

It was under the action of this cylinder, charged with some explosive substance, nitro-glycerine, picrate, or some other material of the same nature, that the water of the channel had been raised like a dome, the bottom of the brig crushed in, and she had sunk instantly, the damage done to her hull being so considerable that it was impossible to refloat her.

The manager of the second was eager that I should include the exact address of his premises in my prospective best-seller -- which in his opinion ought to be about an attempt to refloat the torpedoed ship, in the style of Raise the Titanic, and featuring neo-Nazi conspirators.

Or he might have the sense to turn the frigate round and run her ashore properly, stranding her so that he could save his crew but knowing the British could never refloat his ship.

Relatives were a sensitive issue, part of the murky and complex past, the divided lives, the memories that could be refloated by a word or a name.

Later on she was sunk or scuttled, then perhaps refloated, renamed, remodeled, or, for all I know, scrapped.

Then we painted her until she glistened, sleek and lovely, before we refloated her and took her out to moorings.

Anderson and the other HBC managers expected the lightened vessel could be refloated at high tide.

About the time we had repaired the hull, applied bottom paint, and refloated her, two things happened that changed him completely.

On the full tide the Bulan was refloated and Conrad marvelled at the synchronicity between Tyndall and Ahmed.

There was no question of ever refloating the ship so it would be of interest only to the court-martial trying him for the loss of the ship.

Then he embraced each of the packs in turn, pressing the button on each small cylinder of oxygen, refloating the packs on the surface.

The river was still deep enough to make refloating the ferry necessary.

With real pleasure Jack saw that the active officerin a skiff directing their urgent attempts at unloading the casks and refloating the boat was Pierrot Dumesnil, that amiable young man, now in a frenzy of exasperation.

With real pleasure Jack saw that the active officer in a skiff directing their urgent attempts at unloading the casks and refloating the boat was Pierrot Dumesnil, that amiable young man, now in a frenzy of exasperation.