The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 5Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1836 |
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... station , to hold up its deformities , and to suggest a remedy for its defects . In doing so , we appeal to the sense of the British Nation - not to interested persons , for we are of no party , and we serve no private interest . Our ...
... station , to hold up its deformities , and to suggest a remedy for its defects . In doing so , we appeal to the sense of the British Nation - not to interested persons , for we are of no party , and we serve no private interest . Our ...
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... stations , and the ordinary buoys previously there taken away , viz . : - East End of the Spaniard Sand , a Beacon Buoy , bearing an inverted Cone upon its Staff . North - East End of the Whiting Sand , a Beacon Buoy , having a Globe ...
... stations , and the ordinary buoys previously there taken away , viz . : - East End of the Spaniard Sand , a Beacon Buoy , bearing an inverted Cone upon its Staff . North - East End of the Whiting Sand , a Beacon Buoy , having a Globe ...
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... station in India . Fun and glee of course prevailed , and many and good were the jokes that passed amongst these light - hearted and happy beings . Much of their discourse turned on the service on which they had been last employed ; the ...
... station in India . Fun and glee of course prevailed , and many and good were the jokes that passed amongst these light - hearted and happy beings . Much of their discourse turned on the service on which they had been last employed ; the ...
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... station in life , he went to sea again . He now made several trips to India , in the last of which he became acquainted with his more youthful companion , Steerwell . Stedfast being an intelligent and shrewd fellow , was not blind to ...
... station in life , he went to sea again . He now made several trips to India , in the last of which he became acquainted with his more youthful companion , Steerwell . Stedfast being an intelligent and shrewd fellow , was not blind to ...
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... station . From this period he had been constantly employed in the command of some merchant vessels on distant voyages ; his numerous applications for active employment in the navy having been unheeded . We agreed to dine together , and ...
... station . From this period he had been constantly employed in the command of some merchant vessels on distant voyages ; his numerous applications for active employment in the navy having been unheeded . We agreed to dine together , and ...
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Page 643 - O, it is monstrous ! monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it ; The winds did sing it to me ; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounced The name of Prosper ; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Page 116 - As to the project, however, which was announced in the.- newspapers of making the voyage directly from New York to Liverpool, it was, he had no hesitation in saying, perfectly chimerical, and they might as well talk of making a voyage from New York or Liverpool to the moon.
Page 328 - A WET sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast And fills the white and rustling sail And bends the gallant mast; And bends the gallant mast, my boys. While like the eagle free Away the good ship flies, and leaves Old England on the lee. O for a soft and gentle wind...
Page 772 - Laws may be operated by an unlicensed person, shall be inspected internally and externally once each year, between the first day of June and the first...
Page 773 - STATE OF NEW YORK, Secretary's Office. I have compared the preceding with an original act of the Legislature of this state on file in this office, and do certify that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original.
Page 478 - Scotland — a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty, and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering — winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires...
Page 560 - Tigris went down, it scarcely exceeded eight minutes ; whilst the operation of sinking itself did not consume more than three ; indeed the gale was so very violent, that I doubt whether the most powerful vessel, such as a frigate, could have resisted it, unless she were already secured to the bank; and for this there was, in our case, little or no time, as it was barely possible, in the position of our consort, to make fast and save the vessel. " I had little, or rather no hope, that the Euphrates...
Page 327 - said the pitying Spirit, " Dearly ye pay for your primal Fall — Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the Serpent is over them all!
Page 772 - ... between the first day of June and the first day of September, but should it be impracticable to take up or remove any stationary nets in the waters of Lake Erie on the first day of June...
Page 561 - ... on board ; scarcely a word was spoken, not a murmur was heard, and death was met with that exemplary degree of intrepidity and resignation which have been displayed by every individual throughout the arduous and trying service in which we have been engaged since January, 1835. " Having already given a faithful account of the short but eventful period of about twelve minutes occupied by the beginning, the progress, and termination of the hurricane...