The Mariner's Mirror, Volumen7Leonard George Carr Laughton, Roger Charles Anderson, William Gordon Perrin Society for Nautical Research., 1921 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Admiral Admiralty anchor appears barquentine beam boat bowsprit brig brigantine British built called Callender Captain captured carried century clothes coast colour command Cooke Cooke's copy craft crew deck doubt Doughty's drawings Dutch England English engraving evidence fishing fleet Fletcher fore forecastle foremast Francis Drake French frigate G. N. CLARK gaff galley give guns half-deck hull illustrated interest Julian Corbett keel killick later Lord mainmast mainsail man-of-war Marine MARINER'S MIRROR mast Master mentioned merchant mizzen Museum naval Navy oars officers original outrigger painting perhaps Phineas Pett picture plates port privateers Queries Royal Royal Navy sail schooner seamen seems ship shows side snow Spanish spritsail square rig staysail stern STUART BRUCE Thomas Doughty tion tons topgallant topmast topsails trade trysail two-master Vaux vessel voyage Witsen's words yacht yard Zeeland
Pasajes populares
Página 95 - London ; and it was the most pleasing scene imaginable to see the cheerfulness with which those industrious people plied their way to a certain sale of their goods. The banks on each side are as well peopled, and beautified with as agreeable plantations, as any spot on the earth ; but...
Página 154 - God, it doth even take my wits from me to think on it. There is such controversy between the sailors and the gentlemen, and such stomaching between the gentlemen and the sailors, that it doth even make me mad to hear it. But my masters, I must have it left. For I must have the gentleman to haul and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.
Página 298 - And then it has jurisdiction over pleas of life and member, arising in matters of arms and deeds of war, as well out of the realm as within it.
Página 379 - Vessels that shall be commissioned, by Letters of Marque, or General Reprisals, or otherwise, by his Majesty's Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, shall and may lawfully seize all Ships, Vessels, and Goods belonging to the...
Página 380 - Republic, excepting only within the harbours or roads of princes and states in amity with us, and to bring the same to such port as shall be most convenient, in order to have them legally adjudged in our said High Court of Admiralty of England, or before the...
Página 10 - But it is impossible to deceive the practised eye in these matters ; and while I supposed myself to be looking as salt as Neptune himself, I was, no doubt, known for a landsman by every one on board as soon as I hove in sight. A sailor has a peculiar cut to his clothes, and a way of wearing them which a green hand can never get. The...
Página 58 - They told me that on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the ship's company had no allowance of meat, and that these meagre days were called banyan-days, the reason of which they did not know; but I have since learned they take their denomination from a sect of devotees in some part of the East Indies, who never taste flesh.
Página 98 - In this arduous service (of reconnaissance) on the French coast, 1805, one of our cruisers took the ground, and had to sustain the attack of the flying artillery along shore, the batteries, and the fort of Vimieox, which fired heated shot, until she could warp off at the rising tide, which set in with all the appearance of a stormy night.
Página 280 - Doughty (as he then in the presence of us all sacredly protested) was great, yet the care he had of the state of the voyage, of the expectation of her...
Página 86 - FOR the increase of shipping and encouragement of the navigation of this nation, wherein, under the good providence and protection of God, the wealth, safety, and strength of this kingdom is so much concerned...