Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 241, Issue 1457William Blackwood, 1937 |
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Page 346
... wind calculations were faulty . The Rose's prow could not point for the harbour which lay west of us , because both wind and tide kept carrying her more and more to the east . She could do it , said the Commodore , with a fair wind and ...
... wind calculations were faulty . The Rose's prow could not point for the harbour which lay west of us , because both wind and tide kept carrying her more and more to the east . She could do it , said the Commodore , with a fair wind and ...
Page 348
... wind fearful , but couldn't see much except the white loom of the breaking seas below me . I could see the flares still burning about a mile out to sea and coming closer : a bad lee shore for her , sir . Then it came thick with sleet ...
... wind fearful , but couldn't see much except the white loom of the breaking seas below me . I could see the flares still burning about a mile out to sea and coming closer : a bad lee shore for her , sir . Then it came thick with sleet ...
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The wind came away from dead ahead after we passed Bermuda , and I stood to the on it ! VII . and offered to carry on the carpenter's work . There was plenty of it waiting to be done , for in his capacity of mate the carpenter had been ...
The wind came away from dead ahead after we passed Bermuda , and I stood to the on it ! VII . and offered to carry on the carpenter's work . There was plenty of it waiting to be done , for in his capacity of mate the carpenter had been ...
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