Sentences with phrase «end of a sinking ship»

In this bite - sized dose of Uncharted 3 gameplay from Sony's E3 2011 press conference, Nathan Drake finds himself on the wrong end of a sinking ship.

Not exact matches

Von Spee would end up crushing Cradock's squadron — two of its four ships were sunk, and over one and a half thousand sailors died, including Cradock himself.

Imagine a ship damaged at sea, broken and sinking fast, heading for the safety and shelter of the harbor only to be stopped at the end of the breakwaters, the line between storm - tossed sea and calm waters, and told to clean up their deck, fix their rudders, and examine their ship logs to see where they went wrong, all while still in danger of sinking in the rough seas.

When wives went to collect the paychecks of their dead husbands in Southampton, they discovered that the men's pay had ended when the Titanic sank, because under British maritime law the crew members were paid by the ship, not the steamship line.

Given that civil war was raging in Rome at the time it sank and that the ship was loaded with slingshot ammunition, archaeologists believe that much of the ship's lead may have been destined to end up as shot.

Garriques will stay in Dell until the end of January, probably to ensure the phone to be shipped to customers, and he will jump the sinking ship himself, while still getting paid millions for driving the boat into an iceberg.

We had no idea which was port and starboard so we staged a mutiny and spent most of the time crashing into the ships, firing our cannons and missing the target a lot... we sunk them both in the end!

Nintendo needs to reveal something by the end of this month, and if they don't they're stupid for thinking they aren't riding another sinking ship further into the red.

The ship was skippered by Lieutenant James Iredell Wadell, who, along with capturing or sinking 38 ships (without a single casualty on either side), famously is said to have fired the last shot of the Civil War, two months after the war had ended.