The Progress of the Development of the Law of Storms, and of the Variable Winds: With the Practical Application of the Subject to Navigation; Illustrated by Charts and Wood-cutsJ. Weale, 1849 - 424 עמודים |
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April Atlantic Barbados barometer barque Bay of Bengal Bermuda blew blowing breeze and cloudy Buckinghamshire Calcutta Captain centre CHAP close-reefed coast commenced Coringa cross sea daylight deck ditto weather east easterly eastward extract fall fore fore-topsail foresail fresh breeze fresh gales furled Gulf of Mexico gusts H. K. F. Courses H. M. Ship hard gale heavy gale heavy rain heavy sea heavy squalls hove-to hurricane Islands latitude light log-book Long Madras main-topsail mainsail masts Mauritius midnight miles mizen moderate night Nimbi Noon norther northerly northward observations P.M. wind passed Piddington progression pumps reduced to Civil reefs Remarks revolving winds round sail scudding sea running ship labouring shore southerly southern hemisphere southward starboard staysail strong breezes strong gales tack Ther topsails trysail variable vessel violent westerly westward whirlwind storm wind S.E. wind veered СНАР
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עמוד 386 - Soon after midnight, our ships were involved in an ocean of rolling fragments of ice, hard as floating rocks of granite, which were dashed against them by the waves with so much violence that their masts quivered as if they would fall at every successive blow; and the destruction of the ships seemed inevitable from the tremendous shocks they received.
עמוד 18 - that a whirlwind which sets an extended portion of the atmosphere, into a state of rapid revolution, diminishes the pressure of the atmosphere over that .portion of the earth's surface, and most of all at the centre of the whirl. The depth of the compressing column of air will, at the centre, be least, and its weight will be diminished in proportion to the violence of the wind.
עמוד 16 - Thunder. u Ugly threatening appearance in thn weather. v Visibility of Distant Objects — whether the sky be cloudy or not. w Wet Dew. . Under any letter denotes an Extraordinary Degree.
עמוד 194 - ... south, and moderated a little. It continued to blow hard from that quarter until noon of the 6th, when it moderated fast, and we began bending other sails in room of those that were split. When the gale commenced, which we consider it did at 1 PM on the 5th, we were about twenty miles east of the Lema ; where we were when it ended it is hard to say, as we saw nothing till the morning of the 7th, when we made Mondego Island.
עמוד 380 - April the 29th,(the firstd ay of the fresh north-easterly winds), and May the 3rd, (when the gale was at its height, and the wind began to draw to the southward of west) the mercury had fallen 6-tenths. The change of current did not precede the wind, but changed with it ; when the gale was strong from NW and WNW the current ran a knot an hour to the SE, and when the wind changed to SW it ran with the same velocity to the NE The west coast of New Holland is at times visited by sudden squalls, resembling...
עמוד 376 - ... other never-failing indications of a northerly wind, such as, the change of the current, which, (owing to the prevailing southerly winds,) usually sets to the northward, but runs strong to the southward during northerly winds — frequently preceding them, and giving more timely notice than the barometer. A rising of the water is likewise a certain prognostic of a northerly wind ; and has been invariably noticed, at Swan River, to precede all gales from that quarter— this, of course, can only...
עמוד 24 - ... masts and yards alone will produce this effect, should the wind veer ahead, and it is supposed that vessels have often foundered from this cause. ' When the wind veers aft as it is called, or by the stern, this danger is avoided, and a ship then...
עמוד 37 - ... distinctly heard the sea breaking loudly against the south shores on the morning of the 9th September, full three days before the storm reached the islands, as recorded in the tables of the state of the weather, kept at the central signal-station. At that time the hurricane was still within the tropics, and distant ten degrees of latitude. As the storm approached, the swell increased, breaking against the southern shores with louder roar and great grandeur, until the evening of the 12th September,...
עמוד 56 - ... tremendous squalls blowing with inconceivable fury. The sea rising in huge pyramids yet having no velocity, but rising and falling like a boiling cauldron. I have never seen the like before. I was in the height of the terrible hurricane of September 1834, in the West Indies, I have been in a tyfoon in the China sea, in gales off Cape Horn, the Cape of Good Hope and New Holland, but never saw such a confused and strange sea. I have seen much higher seas, and I am sure wind heavier, but then the...
עמוד 16 - Visibility of distant objects, whether the sky be cloudy or not. W „ Wet dew. „ Under any letter denotes an extraordinary degree. By the combination of these letters, all the ordinary phenomena of the weather may be recorded with certainty and brevity.