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Rocks and Shoals
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English
Etymology
From the language of Article 4, Section 10, which prescribed the death penalty for "any person in the naval service...[who] intentionally or willfully suffers any vessel of the Navy to be stranded, or run upon rocks or shoals".
Proper noun
Rocks and Shoals
en US naval informal historical The Articles for the Government of the United States Navy.