An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms by Means of Facts: Arranged According to Place and Time; and Hence to Point Out a Cause for the Variable Winds, with the View to Practical Use in Navigation. Illustrated by Charts and Wood CutsJ. Weale, 1850 - 530 sivua |
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... sight of Grenada in the evening , and to the eastward of that island . About midnight she first began to experience hard squalls from the north - west , which caused the master to take in sail . The squalls increased until the vessel ...
... sight of Grenada in the evening , and to the eastward of that island . About midnight she first began to experience hard squalls from the north - west , which caused the master to take in sail . The squalls increased until the vessel ...
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... anchored in Carlisle Bay , at 7.15 , P.M .; and was soon afterwards despatched after the Spitfire , supposed to have been in sight , dismasted . 66 LIVERPOOL , Oct. 22 , 1835. - The island 40 BARBADOS HURRICANE OF 1835 .
... anchored in Carlisle Bay , at 7.15 , P.M .; and was soon afterwards despatched after the Spitfire , supposed to have been in sight , dismasted . 66 LIVERPOOL , Oct. 22 , 1835. - The island 40 BARBADOS HURRICANE OF 1835 .
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... sight . Extract of a letter from Captain Newby , of the British brig Water - Witch , from Liverpool to St. Tho- mas's , and which left Liverpool , July 17 , 1837 . " Arrived off St. Thomas's on the 2nd of August ; morning overtaking ...
... sight . Extract of a letter from Captain Newby , of the British brig Water - Witch , from Liverpool to St. Tho- mas's , and which left Liverpool , July 17 , 1837 . " Arrived off St. Thomas's on the 2nd of August ; morning overtaking ...
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... sight . 3 P.M. CHAP . the stanchions on the starboard side were broken , and every sail , except the mainsail , blown away into rags , though furled properly ; the foretop , while on her beam - ends , nearly smashed to pieces , when to ...
... sight . 3 P.M. CHAP . the stanchions on the starboard side were broken , and every sail , except the mainsail , blown away into rags , though furled properly ; the foretop , while on her beam - ends , nearly smashed to pieces , when to ...
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... sights for the chronometer ; baro- meter rising rapidly ; at 10 A.M. made more sail , with a fine steady breeze from the westward ; ship making one foot of water per hour ; at noon , observed in 34 ° 38 ′ N , longitude per chronometer ...
... sights for the chronometer ; baro- meter rising rapidly ; at 10 A.M. made more sail , with a fine steady breeze from the westward ; ship making one foot of water per hour ; at noon , observed in 34 ° 38 ′ N , longitude per chronometer ...
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August August 18 August 21 Barbados barometer Bermuda blew blowing breezes and cloudy breezes and squally brig calm Captain Carlisle Bay CHAP Chart close-reefed cloudy weather deck distance Ditto ditto Ditto weather east eastward Extract fore fore-topsail foresail furled gales and squally gusts Hard gales hard squalls heavy gale heavy rain heavy sea heavy squalls Hour hurricane Island Jamaica K. F. Courses larboard latitude leagues Light airs Light breezes Log of H. M. S. longitude main-topsail mainsail March March 15 masts Mauritius Midnight miles mizen Moderate breezes Noon north-east north-west observed October October 12 P.M. Ditto P.M. Fresh breezes P.M. Light P.M. Moderate Port Louis pumps reefed Remarks sail south-east south-west spritsail staysail Strong breezes swell sympiesometer topsails trysail Variable vessel VIII violent waterspout wind veering wore ship yards СНАР
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Sivu 454 - Eleven of them ranged alongside of us about the distance of three miles. The greatest diameter of the largest appeared to me at that distance as if it would measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at...
Sivu 454 - It was in vain to think of flying; the swiftest horse or fastest sailing ship could be of no use to carry us out of this danger, and the full persuasion of this riveted me as if to the spot where I stood, and let the camels gain on me so much in my state of lameness that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
Sivu 141 - ... that the great circuits of wind, of which the Trade Winds form an integral part, are nearly uniform in all the great oceanic basins ; and that the course of these circuits and of the stormy...
Sivu 505 - The mercury is sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the...
Sivu 454 - ... with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Sivu 295 - ... people not used to it ; it seemed as if the whole ship's side was going at each roll. Wooden, our carpenter, was all this time smoking his pipe and laughing at the doctor ; the second lieutenant upon deck, and the third in his hammock.
Sivu 294 - It blows a little, and has a very ugly look : if in any other quarter but this, I should say we were going to have a gale of wind.' — ' Ay, it looks so very often here when there is no wind at all ; however, don't hoist the topsails till it clears a little ; there is no trusting any country.
Sivu 24 - The prospect was majestic beyond description : the gigantic waves rolling onwards, seemed as if they would defy all obstruction ; yet as they broke over the careenage they seemed to be lost, the surface of it being entirely covered with floating wrecks of every description ; it was an undulating body of lumber, shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of merchandise of a buoyant nature.
Sivu 299 - This won't do for me, to be the first man out of the ship, and first lieutenant ; we may get to England again ; and people may think I paid a great deal of attention to myself, and did not care for any body else. No, that won't do ; instead of being the first, I will see every man, sick and well, out of her before me.
Sivu 296 - I'll answer for it, sir; I have seen it tried several times on the coast of America with success. "Well, try it; if she does not wear, we can only loose the fore-sail afterwards." This was a great condescension from such a man as Sir Hyde. However, by sending about two hundred people into the fore-rigging, after a hard struggle, she wore; found she did not make so good weather on this tack as on the other; for as the sea began to run across, she had not time to rise from one sea, before another dashed...