| As the advancing tide crept inch by inch over the mudbank Jimmy Kinsella was forced back towards the Tortoise. |
| The Lifeboat arrived on scene in moderate conditions in a South Easterly 4 to 5, to find the Yacht hard aground on a mudbank at the entrance to the Camplie River. |
| To their rage and disappointment, the boats stuck on the mudbank just outside the stockades, which they only then discovered. |
| Fluent, personable and persuasive, only his Blair-like arts keep afloat a full-steam-ahead illusion when his ship has just run aground on a mudbank. |
| One boat lay on the mud, disabled, and the dead bodies of several men strewed the mudbank, which the falling tide had left dry. |
| P'raps smash de launch, run ashore, or pile her up on a mudbank. |
