In October heavy seas battered the vessel and, inevitably, her back broke.

But McFarlane could feel the terrible seas were battering the boat mercilessly.

And she was cocooned against his entire hard, powerful body, the sea and the wind now relentlessly battering them both.

But the wind and seas were battering us on the port side, which would be exposed to the north.

This once must have been a wild place when the sea battered along those walls.

The next day, as the seas battered the ship and drove her farther on the rocks, two Coast Guard boats took 31 men from the ship.

High winds and rough seas battered the western coastline of Ireland on the nights of 7-8 November.

Once when she was only a few days out of New York on her seventh eastward crossing, high winds and heavy seas battered her convoy severely.

For several hours she was bumped and pounded as the heavy sea battered her hull, and eventually the hull was ripped apart amidships.

A livid bruise marked his cheek where the sea had battered him against the gunwale.