GC: n

S: http://shipsbusiness.com/stranding-handling-checklist.html (last access: 8 July 2017); http://www.maritimeknowhow.com/home/emergency-procedures/stranding-grounding (last access: 8 July 2017).

N: 1. Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”). Origin uncertain.
2. Accidentally running aground,or being forced aground,by extraordinary circumstances outside the usual course of navigation.
3. Depending on context: striking on a sand-bank.
4. In the fields of Transportation Insurance and Maritime Law: Contact by a ship with the bottom which prevents her from moving. The term does not include bumping over a bar, a mere touch and go or a grounding by reason of the rise and fall of the tide. The vessel must be hard and fast for an appreciable period of time.
5. A vessel is stranded when she is aground and cannot refloat without assistance.
A grounding may be accidental or may be anticipated, e. g. at ports and berths where ships are expected to take the ground whilst alongside (called NAABSA berths and NAABSA ports (see Section F). In such cases, where the vessel is chartered, a suitable charterparty term such as “not always afloat but safe aground” (often abbreviated to “NAABSA”) should be inserted in the contract.

S: 1. http://www.memidex.com/stranding#etymology (last access: 8 July 2017). 2. IATE (last access: 24 January 2014). 3. DME@ (last access: 24 January 2014); FCB. 4. TERMIUM PLUS (last access: 24 January 2014). 6. http://www.shipinspection.eu/index.php/mca-orals/58-mca-oral-exam-questions/1125-what-is-the-difference-between-grounding-and-stranding (last access: 8 July 2017).

SYN: grounding, laying up

S: GDT (last access: 24 January 2014)

CR: dry harbour, grounding, stranding site.