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  THE "MAMMOTH"--THE SYSTEM OF CONVOYS AND THE "RUNNING SHIPS"--A TYPICAL PRIVATEERS'' BATTLE--THE "GENERAL ARMSTRONG


id: 27642
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  "Elements of Navigation," the text of which was followed closely in discussing Variation and Deviation and Traverse Sailing.


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  _ | | 7 | 12.46 | 6 | 12.55 | | 5 | 12.55 | 8 | 1.10 | | 3 | 1.0 | 10 | 1.20 | | 1 | 1.10 | 12 | 1.25 | |


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id: 15648
title: American Merchant Ships and Sailors
author: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
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  [Illustration: NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS] NEW ENGLAND EARLY TOOK THE LEAD IN BUILDING SHIPS _Frontispiece_ MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS MULTIPLIED--LAWLESS TIMES ON THE HIGH SEAS--SHIP-BUILDING IN THE FORESTS New England early took the lead in building ships and manning them, and and many an American ship was left short-handed far out at sea, after a shipped before the mast, records that on his first vessel men seeking the old days of ocean travel the meeting of a ship at sea was an event has long restricted the trade between ports of the United States to ships American ships for seven long years, and at its close the whalers found boats from an American and British ship were in pursuit of the same whale, SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL SHIPPING--RIVER NAVIGATION AS A NATION-BUILDING FORCE--THE VALUE OF SMALL


id: 27322
author: Hillary, William, Sir
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  great national and benevolent institutions in the kingdom, to the National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck," which establishment of a national institution, for the preservation of human every coast, disasters by sea, shipwrecks, and peril to human life, must object the rescue of human life from shipwreck? That a national institution should be formed, equally worthy of Great establishment of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Institution for the Rescue of Lives from Shipwreck._ the formation of a "National Institution for the Preservation of Life an Institution be now formed for the Preservation of Life in cases of National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, held Royal National Institution, now happily established for the preservation Institution for the preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Institution for the preservation of Life from Shipwreck. As this great national measure shall continue to establish itself in the

title:
  An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825)


id: 27642
title: Lectures in Navigation
author: Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
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  _Friday_--Examples: Latitude by Meridian Altitude of a Star; _Friday_--Examples: Latitude by Ex-Meridian Altitude of the Sun 83 will be the point of the ship''s position at the time of sight. changes her course several times, and as a ship''s position by D.R. is Required Latitude and Longitude in and course and distance made good. distance in time the ship is from the sun. distance East or West the Greenwich meridian is from the sun and Local Apparent Time means the distance East or West your ship is from the sun, and West line, for then the sun bears true North and South. Latitude by meridian altitude = Zenith Distance (ZD) ± Declination the time at which we measured the meridian altitude of the sun shows the noon, i.e., the distance in sidereal time the mean sun is from the First longitude by chronometer sight, meaning that at the time the sun bears


id: 21915
author: Cook, James
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  Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-Marks, Depths of Water, This Bank whereon is from 7 to 17 Fathom Water, lies about half a Mile Off the West Point of _Laun Bay_ lay the Islands of the same Name, not _Laun_ Islands; off the East Point are some sunken Rocks near a North-side of the Island is a Rock pretty high above Water, called Cove is a small Island near the Shore, and some Rocks above Water. whereon is two Fathom Water; a little within the Island on the S.E. Side are some sunken Rocks, about two Cables length from the Shore large Ships on the S.W. Side of the Islands in the Bottom of the Bay. The North Arm is a very snug Place for small Vessels; at the Head of [Sidenote: St. John''s Island, Head, Bay and Harbour.] This Harbour, wherein is 6 Fathom Water, lies near 2 Miles to the E.

title:
  Directions for Navigating on Part of the South Coast of Newfoundland, with a Chart Thereof, Including the Islands of St. Peter''s and Miquelon And a Particular Account of the Bays, Harbours, Rocks, Land-marks, Depths of Water, Latitudes, Bearings, and Distances from Place to Place, the Setting of the Currents, and Flowing of the Tides, &c., from an Actual Survey, Taken by Order of Commodore Pallisser, Governor of Newfoundland, Labradore, &c.


id: 21717
title: Battles with the Sea
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
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  would be far greater if we had no lifeboats and no life-saving rockets that the boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution have several Royal National Lifeboat Institution--its boats, its work, and its privileged boat, for it has a steam-tug to wait upon it named the Aid. Day and night the Aid has her fires "banked up" to keep her boilers lifeboat-men rushed to their boats. flash of the seas as they passed over boat and crew, without lifeboat, the men of which had observed our first rocket, had launched In _every_ case of putting off to a wreck in a gale, a lifeboat ships a the Ramsgate boat and steamer rescued men and women and little ones from their lives at any moment all the year round, to save men and women and besides 143 lives saved by shore-boats and other means, for which The duty of the boat''s crew was to save the


id: 20520
title: The Hero of the Humber; Or, The History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe
author: Woodcock, Henry
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  comparatively poor man--John Ellerthorpe, dock gatekeeper, at the replied, ''Go, for you cannot go to a better place, I intend to go to Mr. Jones'' class.'' All the next week John was in great perplexity, thinking, John saw, sitting at his right hand, a man who had been a great An aged clergyman present said, ''I always give you Hull folks great exploits in saving life date from the year 1820, and from that time to in jumping overboard to rescue a drowning person is very great. years ago, and saved my life?'' And in a note I got from him, dated July called at my house and gave me the man''s name and thanked me for saving We took the old man to the Humber dock watch-house, and man then said to Mr. Ellerthorpe, ''Come master, it is time you were in the twenty-ninth person''s life the said John Ellerthorpe has been


id: 39415
title: Loss of the Steamship "Titanic"
author: Great Britain. Court to investigate loss of steamship "Titanic"
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  5. What was the number of the boats of any kind on board the _Titanic_? Height from boat deck to water line amidships at time of _Access of passengers to the boat deck._--The following routes led forward second-class stairway and go up to the boat deck. forward second-class stairway direct to the boat deck. engine-room casing to the boat deck. The heavy ship''s plating was carried right up to the boat deck, and When the last boat, lowered from davits (D), left the ship, A deck was the ship as actually constructed was doomed as soon as the water in No. 6 boiler room and all compartments forward of it entered in the water-tight decks for all ships, it is desirable to form an opinion in "_Titanic_ had struck a berg, passengers in boats, ship sinking;" and he time, provided, as said before, that no ship need carry more boat


id: 40958
author: Dana, Richard Henry
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  yard-arm, and lead through a single block at the mast-head, and set up other end seized to the yard, crossing the foot-rope. is through the lower cap, cast off the end of the mast-rope, letting is no rope of any kind round the yard-arm.) Reeve the lifts and braces, reeve a heel-rope through a block at the jib-boom end, and bend it to reeve the yard-rope through the sheave-hole of the topgallant mast, yard-rope through a jack-block at the mast-head, unhook the tye, cast TO SET A TOPGALLANT SAIL OR ROYAL.--Haul home the lee sheet, having one head yards, keeping the sails full, board fore tack and aft the sheet, studdingsail, brace up the head yards, haul forward the fore tack, and A rope or tackle, going from the yard-arms to the mast-head, to A set of ropes reaching from the mast-heads to the vessel''s

title:
  The Seaman''s Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service


id: 44206
title: Old-Time Nautical Instruments
author: Robinson, John
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  OLD-TIME NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS What sort of instruments did the Colonial ship-masters carry? The ship-master of today uses instruments so different Davis quadrant, the skilful navigator of Salem''s last square-rigger, is a ship-master sailing out of Boston today who does." The Davis quadrant was in common use all through the eighteenth century and It included,--sea-compass, cross-staff, chart, quadrant, basis of all future instruments of its class,--cross-staff, quadrant, [Illustration: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARINER USING A CROSS-STAFF [Illustration: SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARINER USING DAVIS'' QUADRANT navigation it is called "sea-quadrant." The earlier form used by the half-way between a cross-staff and the Davis quadrant, is illustrated [Illustration: HADLEY QUADRANTS (OCTANTS) IN PEABODY MUSEUM, SALEM That so important an instrument as a telescope or spy-glass is rarely instruments with which observations could be made to obtain their instruments, the wonder is how the old ships were navigated through We do not know exactly what instruments the old shipmasters carried


id: 42415
title: Storm Warriors; or, Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands
author: Gilmore, John
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  present, to be saved from a wreck by the life-boat men is to him one of the wreck, the wave passes and breaks over the vessel; if the life-boat The life-boat makes good way, and soon runs across the Sands through the chance!" a sea throws the boat within a yard of the wreck, three men buried in the seas; the rescued men have never been in a life-boat wrecked sailors begin to shout to the life-boat men to come to their such a rushing breaking sea as this, and the little boat the six men are light-vessels, but no life-boat came, and the wreck might at any moment life-boat nearer to the wreck; but the heavy gale, the rush of the sea, life-boat ready for sea; that the crew of the steamer also made all Each time that the men on board the steamer and life-boat look at the


id: 4673
title: Notes By the Way in a Sailor''s Life
author: Knights, Arthur E.
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  ship-rigged vessel, engaged in this trade until near the end of 1863, had come from New York round the Cape of Good Hope, and later the before I left, the ship "Eastward Ho," Captain Byrne, was despatched for The vessel was condemned, the crew were paid off, and the captain left In the beginning of the year 1862 I was chief officer of the ship as the "Raleigh" came near and threaded her way among them, the crews of his came to Shanghai in command of a sailing-ship, and the two brothers brother''s ship, and went to Iloilo, where the vessel loaded and sailed with Captain Knights in charge, and with the rescued crew of the "Hebe" The whole of the "Hebe''s" crew were got on board the At the time that the ship "Northfleet" was rescuing the crew of the brig possible get a new sail in its place, so as to steady the ship.


id: 45157
title: Reminiscences of a Liverpool Shipowner, 1850-1920
author: Forwood, William Bower, Sir
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  up of the American trade in 1756 gave a great impetus to shipping. Sailing-ship owning was profitable to those who possessed high-class British ships entering our ports, and a large increase in foreign shorten the distance his ship had to travel by sailing on the great With the passing of the old sailing-ship we have lost much that was This short sketch of the old sailing-ship days would be incomplete sailing-ship in the long trades. steamer of to-day has improved, the design of the passenger ship has emigration trade, which had hitherto been carried by sailing ships; in two years of the war ships earned large freights, not, however, due to The Government control has taken ships out of the long voyage trades working of our ships at sea, but if on their arrival in port they have vessel of her time--the "Scotia"--and the ships of to-day:--


