It initially seems like it would be difficult to so comprehensively beach a ship but that impression may be in part due to the fact that normally the ship's crew would be trying to avoid being beached. In other situations when a ship is beached we are seeing a ship that did everything it could to avoid or at least minimize the situation.

Not that surprising really that the outcome is very different if the crew point the ship directly at the beach, try to arrive with as much momentum as possible and keep the engines at full power throughout while ignoring the various bumps and thumps.