there was a wisp or two of fine seaweed that had somehow got in, and a small crab was still alive and scuttled across the corner, yet the coffins were but little disturbed.
To deliberately sink a ship or boat by order of the commander, rather than by enemy action
To scuttle a ship means to sink it deliberately by making holes in the bottom. He personally had received orders from Commander Lehmann to scuttle the ship. a container for carrying coal
A small opening or hatchway in the deck of a ship, large enough to admit a man, and with a lid for covering it, also, a like hole in the side or bottom of a ship
to cut a hole through the bottom of a ship; to sink or to wreck a vessel (This was the fate of the P S Lady Sherbrooke) (saborder)