The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 13Brown, Son and Ferguson, 1844 - Naval art and science |
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Admiralty anchor anchorage angle Angra Pequeña appears bank bearing boats breeze brig British buoy cable called Cape Capt Captain centre channel chart coast Colina Commander compass course crew danger Dardanelles deck direction distance east eastward ENLARGED SERIES.-NO entrance fathoms feet frigate gale Gallipoli Guano harbour Harwich heavy horizon island islet land latitude leagues Lieut Lieut.-com light light-house Liverpool low water magnetic main-mast Malta Marine master masts Mauritius merchant natives Nautical Naval navigation nearly night north-east north-west northward observations officers passage passed pirates port Port Louis Portsmouth rain Raine island reef river rocks round Royal sail sand schooner seamen sextant shan shew ship shoal shore side south-east south-west southward squalls steamer steer stream struck tide tion tons top-masts town vessel voyage Wallasey Pool weather westward wind wreck Zanzibar
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Page 59 - ... that landed, being very many in number, were notwithstanding broken, slain and taken, and so sent from village to village, coupled in halters to be shipped into England, where her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either to retain or entertain them, they were all sent back again to their countries, to witness and recount the worthy achievements of their invincible and dreadful navy, of which the number of soldiers, the fearful burthen...
Page 412 - The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of Baron and Earl of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon.
Page 452 - Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs ; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; O let the ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence. To spread large bounties though we wish in vain, Yet all may shun the guilt of giving pain...
Page 59 - Ireland; where, for the sympathy of their religion, hoping to find succour and assistance, a great part of them were crushed against the rocks, and those other that landed, being very many in number, were, notwithstanding, broken, slain, and taken; and so sent from village to village, coupled in halters to be shipped into England, where Her Majesty, of her princely and invincible disposition disdaining to put them to death, and scorning either to...
Page 58 - ... they were not ashamed in the year 1588, when they purposed the invasion of this land, to publish in sundry languages in print great victories in words, which they pleaded to have obtained against this realm, and spread the same in a most false sort over all parts of France, Italy, and elsewhere.
Page 59 - Florentines, and huge hulks of other countries — were by thirty of her Majesty's own ships of war, and a few of our own merchants, by the wise, valiant, and...
Page 412 - Jan. 1 1. [The Queen has been pleased to direct Letters Patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto Alfred Tennyson, Esq., and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten...
Page 59 - With all which so great and terrible an ostentation they did not in all their sailing round about England so much as sink or take one ship, bark, pinnace, or cockboat of ours, or ever burned so much as one sheepcote of this land.
Page 74 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue his requisitions for advances to disbursing officers and agents of the navy under a "General account of advances...
Page 509 - ... shall be and they are hereby declared to be offences of the same nature respectively, and to be liable to the same punishments respectively, as if they had been committed on the high seas and other places within the jurisdiction of the admiralty of England...