The Cruise of the Challenger Lifeboat, and Voyage from Liverpool to London, in 1852William Pickering, 1853 - 119 עמודים |
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Abersoch Admiral anchor answered appeared Bala Bardsey Barmouth beach Beeching Beeching's blowing boat breakers broadside built canvass capsized carried challenge coast Committee compartments craft crew cried the Captain dangerous drowned eight feet fired our gun gale of wind gunwale harbour headland heavy sea heavy surf hoisted Hoylake Ilfracombe inches iron John Cash land lee-boards Liverpool lugs Lytham Magazine Life-boats main-lug Master Harry masts and sails Merionethshire Messrs miles morning never Northumberland Prize oars observed old Governor Orme's head Padstow passengers Penzance pilot Point of Ayr pontoons port Porthdynllaen principle Prize Life-boats proved pulled raft Ramsgate reef Rhyl river roared rocks rowed sailors saved Seacombe ship shore shouted side smooth water squalls steamer steer surf Thomas Evans tide took top-masts Toxteth Docks trials tubes Tubular Life-boat upset vessel voyage wave weather white squalls Whitesand bay windward wreck young Governor
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עמוד i - If by your art, my dearest father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them : The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the fire out. O ! I have suffered With those that I saw suffer : a brave vessel, Who had no doubt some noble creature in her, Dash'd all to pieces. O ! the cry did knock Against my very heart. Poor souls ! they perish'd.
עמוד 117 - Unfortunately for the author, it is of that kind which is known among logicians as an
עמוד 31 - Enough, I sought to drive away The lazy hours of peaceful day ; Slight cause will then suffice to guide A Knight's free footsteps far and wide, — A falcon flown, a greyhound strayed, The merry glance of mountain maid ; Or, if a path be dangerous known, The danger's self is lure alone.
עמוד 117 - St. David's Head, and in the Bristol Channel, off Padstow. The coxswain declares that no sea ever broke over them, but that the raft rose buoyantly to the waves. On a trial in smooth water, off Woolwich, it held way fairly with a life-boat. No opportunity has yet been afforded for trying its powers in pulling off shore against a gale of wind to a wreck, but she has frequently beached and rowed off again in a strong breeze. THE LIFE-BOAT.
עמוד 76 - Catamarans comprises a numerous body— but they cannot be made applicable to the purposes of a Life-boat, when required to pull off a lee-shore in a gale of wind.
עמוד 2 - ... lifted by the sea, so as to throw one tube out of the water, the wave would immediately have free course between the tubes, and would, by its own action upon the second tube, compel a righting of the boat.
עמוד iv - ... faulty in their form, faulty in their fittings, and faulty in their mode of ballasting, as we shall proceed to show.
עמוד 2 - ... one or two compartments from an accident of this kind would not materially impair the efficiency of the craft. Along the outside of each tube there is a substantial circular cork fender, which...
עמוד ix - BOATS, which can be upset, swamped, or waterlogged, by any contingencies of winds or waves, in the open seas, are unworthy of the name of Lifeboats.