The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Том 21Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1852 |
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... took it in 1640 , strengthened it , and made it a place for obtaining supplies for * In 1839 the population was 4,000 souls , composed of English , South Africans and free negroes ; since then it has increased exclusive of military to ...
... took it in 1640 , strengthened it , and made it a place for obtaining supplies for * In 1839 the population was 4,000 souls , composed of English , South Africans and free negroes ; since then it has increased exclusive of military to ...
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... took much delight . This dwelling now belongs to Mr. Solomon , who keeps it in beautiful order and uses it as his country seat . After a short drive , Alarm Hill is ascended , which is 1960 feet above the sea . Here a sudden change in ...
... took much delight . This dwelling now belongs to Mr. Solomon , who keeps it in beautiful order and uses it as his country seat . After a short drive , Alarm Hill is ascended , which is 1960 feet above the sea . Here a sudden change in ...
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... took the Hastings in tow , and towed her for two hundred and thirty - five miles till 7 A.M. on the 27th , when the wind being fair from south - west we cast her off , and kept company with her under easy steam and sail . On the ...
... took the Hastings in tow , and towed her for two hundred and thirty - five miles till 7 A.M. on the 27th , when the wind being fair from south - west we cast her off , and kept company with her under easy steam and sail . On the ...
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... took the earliest opportunity when daylight broke , of swifting the rigging in . Daylight revealed a long catalogue of minor misfortunes ; great part of the ship's company's galley washed away , port after - sponson started , many parts ...
... took the earliest opportunity when daylight broke , of swifting the rigging in . Daylight revealed a long catalogue of minor misfortunes ; great part of the ship's company's galley washed away , port after - sponson started , many parts ...
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... took me to Coomza , a town situated at the bottom of one of the many deep coves in the neighbourhood of Ras Moosendom . I there learnt that a sunken rock lay about half a mile off the island of Towkhul , but I could not then gain any ...
... took me to Coomza , a town situated at the bottom of one of the many deep coves in the neighbourhood of Ras Moosendom . I there learnt that a sunken rock lay about half a mile off the island of Towkhul , but I could not then gain any ...
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Admiralty Algoa Bay Amazon anchor anchorage appears Arctic arrived barometer barque Basses bearing Board of Admiralty boat breeze brig Cape Capt Captain channel chart coast Commander commenced conductors course crew dangerous deck direction distance Ditto east eastward expedition fathoms feet fire gale guns half harbour heavy Hong-Kong hour island Labuan Lancaster Sound land Lieutenant life-boat light lighthouse Majesty's master masts miles morning Nautical naval navigation Navy night north-east north-west northward observed officers opinion passage passed passengers Phlegethon pilot Pitcairn Island Plover port Port Clarence position Pratas Island reef river rocks round Royal Navy Sable Island sail Sailors sand seamen seen ship ship's shoal shore side Sir John Southampton southward steam steamer Straits struck SW SW tide tion vessels voyage weather Wellington Channel westward whale whilst William Torr wind wreck
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Страница 38 - This may be safely laid down as a rule on all occasions, fog or clear, light or dark, that no steamer has a right to navigate at such a rate that it is impossible for her to prevent damage, taking all precaution at the moment she sees danger to be possible, and if she cannot do that without going less than five knots an hour, then she is bound to go at less than five knots an hour.
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Страница 90 - The mail-boat, when lowered, was immediately swamped, with about twentyfive people in her, all of whom were lost. The pinnace, when lowered, sheered across the sea before the people in her could unhook the fore-tackle. They were thereby washed out, and the boat remained hanging by the bow.
Страница 160 - 1 like a man who is in earnest. Sir John Franklin read the church service to-day and a sermon so very beautifully, that I defy any man not to feel the force of what he would convey. The first Sunday he read was a day or two before we sailed, when Lady Franklin, his daughter, and niece attended. Every one was struck with his extreme earnestness of manner, evidently proceeding from real conviction.
Страница 172 - I HAVE the honour to report, for the information of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that their Lordships...
Страница 566 - Majesty, anxious that this tribute of gratitude and sorrow should b« deprived of nothing which could invest it with a thoroughly national character — anxious that the greatest possible number of her subjects should have an opportunity of joining it — is anxious, above all, that such honours should not appear to emanate from the Crown alone, and that the two Houses of Parliament should have an opportunity, by their previous sanction, of stamping the proposed ceremony with increased solemnity,...
Страница 327 - American vessels ; but their returns have not been received; partial accounts of wreck and disaster only have reached us. They are startling. "The lives and property at stake there for the two years for which we have complete returns, may be thus stated: 1849. Number of American seamen, 4,650. Value of ships and outfit, $4,650,000 Value of oil taken, 2,606,510 Value of bone, 814,112 $8,070,622 1850.
Страница 55 - Upwards of 500 persons had been destroyed by the terrible visitation, and an immense amount of property ; the country being laid waste for miles. The shipping in the harbour suffered severely, many vessels being destroyed and their crews drowned.