The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 3Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin Society for Nautical Research., 1913 |
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Page 119 - He hadna gane a step, a step, A step but barely ane, When a bout flew out of our goodly ship, And the salt sea it came in. ' Gae, fetch a web o' the silken claith, Another o' the twine, And wap them into our ship's side, And let na the sea come in.
Page 244 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, But westward, look, the land is bright.
Page 257 - Sidelights" means a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side...
Page 39 - Loutherbourg, when heav'n so wills To make brass skies, and golden hills, With marble bullocks in glass pastures grazing ; — Thy reputation, too, will rise, And people, gaping with surprise, Cry, ' Monsieur Loutherbourg is most amazing...
Page 41 - To wit, she was twelve score feet of length, and thirty-six foot within the sides ; she was ten foot thick in the wall and boards, on every side so slack and so thick that no cannon could go through her.
Page 307 - All officers and men, whenever reaching the quarterdeck either from a boat, from a gangway, from the shore, or from another part of the ship, will salute the national ensign. In making this salute, which...
Page 256 - When steamers must inevitably or necessarily cross so near that by continuing their respective courses, there would be a risk of collision, each vessel must put her helm to port, so as always to pass on the larboard side of each other; 6.
Page 117 - Lady Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England Fraunce and Ireland Defender of the Fayth etc.
Page 307 - ... from the shore, or from another part of the ship, shall salute the national ensign. In making this salute, which shall be entirely distinct from the salute to the officer of the deck, the person making it shall stop at the top of the gangway or upon arriving upon the quarter-deck, face the colors, and render the salute, after which the officer of the deck shall be saluted. In leaving the quarter-deck, the same salutes shall be rendered in inverse order. The officer of the deck shall return both...
Page 255 - That when both vessels have the wind large or a-beam, and meet, they shall pass each other in the same way on the larboard hand, to effect which two last-mentioned objects the helm must be put to port...