Seamen AllLittle, Brown, 1924 - 253 pages |
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aboard adventure anchor arrived ashore Atlantic Auckland Auckland Island Australian barque Bay of Biscay beach boat British built Campbell canvas Cape captain cargo carried clipper ships coast command Courtesy Messrs craft crew Cutty Sark deck depôt Disappointment Island Dundonald Eamont East East Indiamen English Channel feet fire fo'c'sle frigates gale German guns harbour heavy sea James Baines John Kerr land later let go Liverpool mariners masts Melbourne miles morning Musgrave naval night Norman Court officers passengers patrol port proa Q-ships reached reef rigging Rogers round sailing ship sailor schooner seaman second mate sent ship's shore side sighted skipper sloop Socorro spars Spindler squadron squalls steam steamer story T. H. Parker tea-clipper Thames to-day tons took topsail towed trade Tralee Bay vessel Virgen del Socorro voyage weather whilst wind Woodard wreck yards Zealand
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Page 9 - This day being the day of our King's marterdome, wee shew all the signes of morning as possible wee can, viz. our jacks and flaggs only halfe staff...
Page 17 - WB keep an exact journal of his proceedings, and therein particularly take notice of all prizes which shall be taken by him, the nature of such prizes, the times and places of their being taken, and the...
Page 16 - ... and appointed to issue forth and grant letters of marque and reprisals to any of his majesty's subjects or others whom the said commis-sioners shall deem fitly qualified in that behalf for the apprehending, seizing, and taking the ships, vessels, and goods...
Page 61 - ... sea perfectly dry. We boomed out the fore-sail on the weather side, and the wind being fair, proceeded on our voyage at a great rate. About noon it freshened into a smart gale, and the sea rose considerably, frequently curling over the stern in an alarming manner. Our open cock-pit rendered this extremely dangerous ; till we adopted an expedient, of which I fortunately recollected having read in the voyages of some Dutch navigators, who used oil to smooth the sea. Upon trying the experiment,...
Page 16 - ... shall be liable to confiscation pursuant to the respective treaties between his Majesty and other princes, states, and potentates, and to bring the same to judgment in...
Page 23 - Duchess" showed a French ensign. Immediately our pinnace returned from the shore, and brought abundance of cray-fish, with a man clothed in goat's skins, who looked wilder than the first owners of them. He had been on the island four years and four months, being left there by Captain Stradling in the "Cinque Ports;" his name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotchman, who had been master of the "Cinque Ports...
Page 8 - Wee had also a couple of fatt pullets ; and whilst wee were eating of them, a sea cam, and forced into the cabin through the chinks of a port hole, which by lookeing behind me I just discovered when the water was coming under mee. I soone got up, and no whitt welt ; but all the rest were well washed, and got up as fast as the could, and laughed on at the other.
Page 9 - Christman day wee keepe thus. At 4 in the morning our trumpeters all doe flatt their trumpetts, and begin at our Captain's cabin, and thence to all the officers' and gentlemen's cabins; playing a levite at each cabin doore, and bidding good morrow, wishing a merry Christmas.
Page 5 - no life at the shoare being comparable to this at sea, where wee have good...
Page 9 - After they goe to their station, viz. on the poope, and sound 3 levitts in honour of the morning. At 10 wee goe to prayers and sermon ; text, Zacc. ix. 9. Our Captaine had all his officers and gentlemen to dinner with him, where wee had excellent good fayre : a ribb of beife, plumbpuddings, minct pyes, &c. and plenty of good wines of severall sorts ; dranke healths to the King, to our wives and friends ; and ended the day with much civill myrth.