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Passing over the signal bridge, the plane carried away halyards and antennae assemblies, smashed into the stack, and then crashed close aboard to starboard.
On the morning of 25 February, a projectile burst close aboard the transport, killing a Marine captain standing on deck and wounding several others.
After several days of delay because of stormy weather, Rhind took the ship close aboard Fort Fisher on the night of 23 24 December 1864.
Surfacing after nightfall, the sub sighted a destroyer away but could not attack when the destroyer sighted her in turn, and launched depth charges close aboard.
On 3 March, one of her own crewmembers was killed and two others were wounded when a shell from an enemy shore battery exploded close aboard.

Fortunately, the warhead punched clear through the hull of " Stanly " without detonating, passed out her port side, and exploded in the water close aboard.
Three days later, as she steamed toward Manus, the hospital was again attacked by aircraft . One bomb was dropped close aboard but no damage resulted.
On 27 March, when her task force first came under air attack, she fired on a Japanese plane which crashed close aboard on her bow, inflicting no casualties.
The bomb exploded a few feet close aboard her port side, and its fragments showered the ship and blew a large hole through the shell plating near her forward fireroom.
Alert lookouts picked out the tracks of two torpedoes and evasive action enabled the ship to avoid the deadly " fish " which passed close aboard, from starboard to port.

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