The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, Volume 16Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1847 - Naval art and science |
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32-pounders Admiralty anchor anchorage appears Auckland barque beacon bearing boat breeze buoy Caledonia Cape Capt captain cargo Cat Island channel chart chief mate coal coast command course crew deck distance Ditto east eastward engines Exmouth fathoms feet fire forecastle gale guns harbour inches island John land latitude Lieut Lieut-Com light lighthouse Liverpool Lombok London longitude Lt-Com marine mast Mast-Com master merchant miles monsoon natives Nautical navigation night northward observed officers passage passed passengers Porirua port Port Essington Portsmouth rain Ramsgate reef remarkable river rock round Royal sail sailors sand schooner seamen seen SHEWING Shields ship shoal shore side Singapore southward st-v st.v Starcross steam steamer steer straits SW SW tide tion tons as mate trade Trincomalee Trinity House vessel voyage weather westward whilst wind wreck yards
Popular passages
Page 324 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost,' being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 249 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 538 - The long ocean swell being suddenly impeded by this barrier, lifted itself in one great continuous ridge of deep blue water, which, curling over, fell on the edge of the reef in an unbroken cataract of dazzling white foam. Each line of breaker was often one or two miles in length, with not a perceptible gap in its continuity.
Page 442 - The length of time that was occupied by this deluge of ideas, or rather the shortness of time into which they were condensed, I cannot now state with precision, yet certainly two minutes could not have elapsed from the moment of suffocation to that of my being hauled up.
Page 292 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were...
Page 273 - Lower down, between the bitts, was a locker, or sailors' pantry, kept in abominable disorder, and sometimes requiring a vigorous cleaning and fumigation. All over, the ship was in a most dilapidated condition; but in the forecastle it looked like the hollow of an old tree going to decay. In every direction the wood was damp and discolored, and here and there soft and porous.
Page 442 - But, however that may be, one circumstance was highly remarkable ; that the innumerable ideas which flashed into my mind were all retrospective ; yet I had been religiously brought up — my hopes and fears of the next world had lost nothing of their early strength, and at any other period intense interest and awful anxiety would have been excited by the mere...
Page 442 - ... that I became convinced that I was really alive. Again, instead of being absolutely free from all bodily pain, as in my drowning state, I was now tortured by pain all over me ; and though I have been since wounded in several places, and have often submitted to severe surgical discipline, yet my sufferings were at that time far greater, at least in general distress: On one occasion I was shot in the lungs, and after lying on the deck at night for some hours, bleeding from other wounds, I at...
Page 311 - ... a ship can want, except the mast and the ship's boat. There is appointed to the ship's command a most experienced steersman, and fourteen subordinate attendants picked for the service are assigned him.
Page 538 - The unbroken roar of the surf, with its regular pulsation of thunder, as each succeeding swell first fell on the outer edge of the reef, was almost deafening, yet so deep-toned as not to interfere with the slightest nearer and sharper sound, or to oblige us to raise our voices in the least.