 | Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 530 pages
...— an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired effect; the ship gathered stern-way,...few minutes reached its western termination ; the " under tow," as it is called, or the reaction of the water from its vertical cliffs, alone preventing... | |
 | Sir James Clark Ross - 1847 - 516 pages
...— an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired effect ; the ship gathered stern-way,...yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a feAV minutes reached its western termination ; the " under tow," as it is called, or the reaction of... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pages
...ship gathered stcrn-wa? ; plunging her stern into the sea, washing away the gig and quarter-boats, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face...a few minutes reached its western termination. The ' under tow,' as it is called, or the reaction of the water from its vertical cliffs, alone preventing... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pages
...perhaps, had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather ; but it had the desired eflect. The ship gathered stern-way ; plunging her stern into the sea, washing away the gig and quarter-boats, and with her lower yardarms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a few minutes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 580 pages
...— an expedient that, perhaps, had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather ; but it had the desired effect. The ship gathered stern-way ; plunging her stern into the sea, washing awav the gig and quarter- boats, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg,... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...— an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired effect ; the ship gathered stern-way,...a few minutes reached its western termination, the ' under tow,' as it is called, or the reaction of the water from its vertical cliffs alone preventing... | |
 | 1848 - 626 pages
...had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired eflict : t/ie ship gathered stern-way, plunging her stern into the...a few minutes reached its western termination, the ' under tow,' as it is called, or the reaction of the water from its vertical clifis alone pieventing... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1850 - 782 pages
...aback— an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired effect : the ship gathered sternway,...plunging her stern into the sea, washing away the gig and quarter-boats, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a few minutes... | |
 | World - 1852 - 588 pages
...abnck, — an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather. But it had the desired effect. The ship gathered stern-way,...plunging her stern into the sea, washing away the gig and quarter-boats, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a few minutes... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1853 - 534 pages
...— an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired effect ; the ship gathered stern-way,...a few minutes reached its western termination; the ' under tow,' as it is called, or the reaction of the water from its vertical cliffs, alone preventing... | |
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... and the maintack hauled on board sharp aback — an expedient that perhaps had never before been resorted to by seamen in such weather : but it had the desired effect ; the ship gathered stern-way, plunging her stern into the sea, washing away the... 
