The coast was studded with forbidding rocks, those to the north and south rising high above the spray of breaking seas.

The deep roar of the wind and the thunder of breaking seas increased as the night wore on.

Unable to stay aboard Napoleon Solo as it filled with water and was overwhelmed by breaking seas, Callahan escaped into a six-person Avon inflatable life raft, measuring about six feet across.

On the tenth day out from Spithead, Southwick reckoned that they had passed the great rocky promontory of Cape St Vincent (so steep and riddled with caves that the booming of breaking seas could be heard for miles).

Our ears had been accustomed to the deep roar of the wind and the seething hiss of breaking seas.

The upper section swivels to stop breaking seas entering the dorade.

I went up to the bridge then, standing inconspicuously by the radar, watching the knife-like bows rise and fall beyond the twin barrels of the 4.5-inch guns, the white glimmer of the bow wave either side, my body adapting to the pitch and roll as we drove north-westwards through breaking seas.

When it became evident that the Algerine could not control her steering and was being carried toward the frigate, the latter stopped her engines, as the speed was causing violent pitching and a smother of breaking seas, blotting everything from view.

Before us opened a narrow channel, frilled at its mouth with breaking seas.

Navigation, never a simple matter, became difficult in the extreme from a violently pitching deck and with a horizon distorted by breaking seas, or, in the absence of sun and stars, quite impossible.