As a result, both vessels had drifted onto the shoal.

The tow ropes were lost and the vessel drifted into the breakwater, moving too fast for the anchor to have held her.

The vessel drifted finally to Marseilles and they were saved.

A dim, white- sailed vessel drifted past the bar of the shadowy dunes.

The vessel then drifted under a pier in Seattle and sank.

The vessel drifted to the west bank of the river, grounded, and burned until she exploded 35 minutes past midnight.

The vessel was still afloat, but drifting helplessly in the sea.

Sea anchors also reduce the speed at which a vessel will drift with the wind.

Granted, we are on the wrong course, but in fact the vessel is drifting, engines stopped.

The vessel is drifting at a rate of approximately one arc second per minute.