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S:  Icelandrev – https://www.icelandreview.com/news/cargo-ship-stranded-off-north-iceland/ (last access: 15 June 2024); News.com.au – https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/cargo-ship-rio-madeira-stranded-after-power-failure/news-story/4082cc4ab8345e038dde8f5baed31fb3 (last access: 15 June 2024).

N:1. – stranding (adj): From present participle of verb “strand”. 1620s, “to drive aground on a sea-shore,” from strand (n.1). Compare beach (v.). The figurative sense of “leave helpless; be checked or stopped,” as of a ship grounded by the tide, is recorded from 1837. Related: Stranded; stranding.

– site (n): “place or position occupied by something,” especially with reference to environment, also “land on which a building stands, location of a village,” late 14c., from Anglo-French site, Old French site “place, site; position,” and directly from Latin situs “a place, position, situation, location, station; idleness, sloth, inactivity; forgetfulness; the effects of neglect,” from past participle of sinere “let, leave alone, permit” (from PIE *si-tu-, from root *tkei- “to settle, dwell, be home”).

2. A place or a site to drive aground on a sea-shore or similar.

3. When a vessel is grounded intentionally she is said to be beached. If she is grounded accidentally she is stranded. A vessel is usually beached when she is damaged to such an extent that the pumps are unable to cope with the rate of flooding. There is therefore always an interval of time, however short, during which the action of beaching can be considered. Even if an emergency exists, the beaching can still often be controlled, and hence the problem of refloating the ship may resolve itself more easily than in the case of a stranded vessel. This is provided the person executing the manœuvre selects his beach, and method of approach, with a view to subsequent refloating. The wise seaman, however, will waste little time in considering such problems if danger of foundering is imminent.

4. Not to be confused with “ledge”, “haul-out” or “haul-out site” related to pinnipeds.

A haul-out site is a location on land where seals come ashore to rest, to moult, to breed and have pups. Seals that are hauled out on land may be sensitive to too close an approach by humans from the land, sea or air and caution is required in such circumstances. However, seals will generally choose haul-out sites that are subject to minimal disturbance by humans.

S: 1&2. Etymonline – https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=stranding+site (last access: 15 June 2024). 3. Taylor&Francis – https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/mono/10.4324/9780203031278-16/stranding-beaching-graham-danton (last access: 15 June 2024); TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=stranding&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 15 June 2024). 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=ledge&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 15 June 2024); GDT – https://vitrinelinguistique.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/fiche-gdt/fiche/8870853/echouerie (last access: 15 June 2024); GovScot – https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/factsheet/2019/11/marine-scotland-topic-sheets-marine-mammals/documents/seal-haul-out-sites-updated-june-2017/seal-haul-out-sites-updated-june-2017/govscot%3Adocument/seal-haul-out.pdf (last access: 15 June 2024).

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CR: beaching place, dry dock, floating dock, grounding, shipyard, shoal, stranding.