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" I constantly watched the ship; her topsails were either close reefed or on the lap, her foresail was close up, the mainsail having been furled at 5.30 pm, but I could not see any fore and aft set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the... "
Lifeboats, Projectiles and Other Means for Saving Life - Page 64
by Robert Bennet Forbes - 1872 - 163 pages
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Annual Register, Volume 112

Edmund Burke - 1871 - 670 pages
...any fore and aft set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was all this time clearly seen....Lord Warden ' was kept, by the aid of the screw and after-trysails, with her bow to a heavy cross sea, and at times it was thought that the sea would have...
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The Annual Register, Volume 112

Edmund Burke - 1871 - 666 pages
...any fore and aft set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was all this time clearly seen....Lord Warden ' was kept, by the aid of the screw and after-trysails, with her bow to a heavy cross sea, and at times it was thought that the sea would have...
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The Annual Register

1871 - 664 pages
...any fore and aft set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was all this time clearly seen....Lord Warden ' was kept, by the aid of the screw and after-trysails, with her bow to a heavy cross sea, and at times it was thought that the sea would have...
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A hundred wonders of the world in nature and art, ed. by J. Small

John Small - 1876 - 646 pages
...any fore and aft set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was all this time clearly seen....Lord Warden was kept, by the aid of the screw and aftertrysails, with her bow to a heavy cross sea, and at times it was thought that the sea would have...
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A Book about Travelling, Past and Present

Thomas Allan Croal - 1877 - 642 pages
...any fore and aft set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was all this time clearly seen....Lord Warden ' was kept, by the aid of the screw and after-trysails, with her bow to a heavy cross sea, and at times it was thought that the sea would have...
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Great Shipwrecks: A Record of Perils and Disasters at Sea. 1544-1877 ...

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1877 - 800 pages
...set. She was heeling over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow-light was all this time clearly seen. " Some minutes after,...Lord Warden was kept, by the aid of the screw and after-trysails, with her bow to a heavy sea, and at times it was thought that the sea would have broken...
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Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895, Volume 2

Herbert Wrigley Wilson - 1896 - 484 pages
...was heeling over a good deal to starboard,* with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was at this time clearly seen. Some minutes after I again looked for her, but it was thick with rain, and the light was no longer visible. The squalls of wind and rain were...
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Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare from 1855 to 1895 ..., Volume 2

Herbert Wrigley Wilson - 1898 - 520 pages
...was heeling over a good deal to starboard,* with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was at this time clearly seen. Some minutes after I again looked for her, but it was thick with rain, and the light was no longer visible. The squalls of wind and rain were...
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Colburn's United Service Magazine and ..., Volume 124; Volume 1870, Issue 3

1870 - 642 pages
...any fore and aft set. She was heeling] over a good deal to starboard, with the wind on her port side. Her red bow light was all this time clearly seen....Lord Warden ' was kept, by the aid of the screw and after-trysails, with her bow to a heavy cross sea, and at times it was thought that the sea would have...
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