0 If a boat or ship is aground, it is unable to move because it is touching ground or in a place where there is very little water: --
Approved shipping routes would make it less likely for ships to collide with each other, run aground or get into other difficulties.
The vessel ran aground at seven minutes past 8, and she was refloated within three hours.
There were already half a dozen ships up there unsuitable for the purpose; and they are all aground.
However, it is clear that the ship has run aground.
Twelve vessels sank or ran aground here during a severe storm.
Only recently a large oil tanker went off course and ran aground quite near to the gas tanker's proposed mooring site.
The tanker ran aground and all that oil was vented into the sea and blown on to the land.
Secondly, running ships aground for on-site dismantling must be regarded as unacceptable.
