In heavy seas, the ship beached 20 miles below the mouth of Humboldt Bay, near the village of Centerville.
The ship beached at Aitape at sunrise on 23 April but damaged her anchor winch.
Seeing no hope for the ship and wishing to save as many of her crew as possible, Cervera at 1020 hours ordered the ship beached.
The ship eventually beached herself near Asbury Park, New Jersey, and remained there for several months until she was towed off and scrapped.
Although the tide was out and the ships still beached, Commius ordered the sails raised.
The ships with black sails had beached in White Gold Bay and the raiders had swiftly made their way inland to his father's village.
The smaller ships ran full to land and beached there.
The ship beached close in, a narrow gangplank sliding from the upper deck to thud against the sand.
Fiallach had gathered his five hundred fighting men, but the ships had not beached.
However the ship beached at Locquirec in the night of the 8th and 9 August 1939.