ships - end of the line

A ship reaches her final destination. When a ship is beached, it's met out at sea by the beaching captain and is then sailed a few miles out to sea, turned towards the land, and, at as high a speed as possible is driven onto the shore. The closer she ends up to the high water mark, the easier and cheaper she will be to scrap

clipped from www.foreignpolicy.com Dry Dock: With one of the world's longest beaches, Chittagong is Bangladesh's biggest port. Half of the world's supertankers are disassembled here.