Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the Present DaySidgwick, 1914 - 361 pàgines |
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Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the ... Edward Keble Chatterton Visualització completa - 1909 |
Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the ... Edward Keble Chatterton Visualització completa - 1914 |
Sailing Ships: The Story of Their Development from the Earliest Times to the ... Edward Keble Chatterton Visualització completa - 1909 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 75 - But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country ; 28 And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms : and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
Pàgina 128 - The principall purpose of his traveile this way, was to encrease the knowledge and discoverie of these coasts and countreyes, for the more commoditie of fishing of horse-whales, which have in their teeth bones of great price and excellencie : whereof he brought some at his returne unto the king. Their skinnes are also very good to make cables for shippes, and so used.
Pàgina 213 - Every man to his charge. Dowse your top sail, salute him for the sea : Hail him : whence your ship ? Of Spain. Whence is yours ? Of England. Are you Merchants or Men of War ? We are of the Sea.
Pàgina 114 - Her proportions and scantlings prove that her builders had large experience of shipbuilding, and that they understood the art, which was subsequently lost, to be revived only in modern times, of shaping the underwater portion of the hull so as to reduce the resistance to the passage of the vessel through the water.
Pàgina 128 - ... stretched Northward, and whether there were any habitation of men North beyond the desert. Whereupon he tooke his voyage directly North along the coast, having upon his steereboord alwayes the desert land, and upon the leereboord the maine Ocean : and continued his course for the space of 3. dayes. In which space he was come as far towards the North, as commonly the whale hunters use to travell.
Pàgina 156 - ANd if I should conclude all by the King Henrie the fift, what was his purposing, Whan at Hampton he made the great dromons, Which passed other great ships of all the commons ; The Trinitie, the Grace de Dieu, the holy Ghost, And other moe, which as nowe bee lost.
Pàgina 154 - Islands of the world, and there leaving his company together, hee travailed alone, and purposely described all the Northerne Islands, with the indrawing seas : and the record thereof at his returne he delivered to the king of England.
Pàgina 213 - Compass, he stands right a-head ; or on the weather bow, or lee bow : out with all your sails, a steady man to the helm, sit close to keep her steady. Give chase or fetch him up...
Pàgina 214 - They hang out a flag of truce, stand in with him, hail him amain, abaft or take in his flag, strike their sails and come aboard, with the Captain, Purser, and Gunner, with your Commission, Cocket, or bills of loading.
Pàgina 229 - A treatise concerning the true method of finding the proper area of the sails for ships of the line, and from thence the length of masts and yards.