Sinking it deliberately to avoid it being of use to an enemy.
Sinking it deliberately to avoid it being of use to an enemy.
Scuttling is a verb which means moving quickly with short steps. It can be used in the following possible sentences:When the tide comes in, all the crabs start scuttling towards the rocks.The abandoned house is collapsing, and all the rats are scuttling away.It's started raining and you can see all the kids from the playground scuttling to get inside.
Scuttling of SMS Cormoran happened on 1917-04-07.
If you're talking about scuttling, all German subs had scuttling charges in them. Not that they always worked. Germany had a habit of sinking their own ships: Bismarck, Graf Spee, and their whole battleship fleet committed suicide at Scapa Flow in 1919.
Scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow happened on 1919-06-21.
You probably are thinking of the word "scuttling" here. To scuttle a ship is to open holes in the hull and let in the water. It means to sink your own ship on purpose.
Shuttling rhymes with sculttling.
It means to open valves to let sea water fill the ship, then to leave the ship to sink. In wartime, often done rather than let the enemy have the ship.
Strictly speaking, Titanic was not a cruise boat. She was a destination boat. She was only meant for transatlantic crossings and to make people feel comfortable on the way.
scow meant a flat bottomed boat with a blunt end. A barge.
A boat, where the hull design is meant to raise the boat to skim across the surface of the water rather then ploughing through it.