 | 1856 - 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 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... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1862 - 284 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... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 500 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, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a few. minutes reached its... | |
 | Georg Ludwig Hartwig - 1869 - 614 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 sternway, plunging her stern into the sea, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a few minutes reached its... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 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 sternway, plunging her stern into the sea, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face of the berg, we in a few minutes reached its... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1872 - 812 pages
...weather; but it had the desired effect ; the ship gathered sternway, plunging her stern into the sea, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face...few minutes reached its western termination ; the ' under-low,' as it is called, or the reaction of the water from its vertical cliffs, alone preventing... | |
 | 1879 - 496 pages
...weather ' but it had the desired effect ; the ship gathered sternway, plunging her stem into the sea, and with her lower yard-arms scraping the rugged face...few minutes reached its western termination ; the ' under tow,1 as it is called, or the reaction of the water from its vertical cliffs, alone preventing... | |
 | 1907 - 264 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... | |
 | 1851 - 648 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 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 bergwe in a fсw minutes... | |
 | 1847 - 606 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... 
