An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere: And Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavor, Band 1W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773 |
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... fail , lower edge or bottom . FOOT - ROPE , the rope to which the foot of a fail is fewed . FORE , all that part of a fhip's frame and machinery which lies near the head . G. GAFF , a fort of boom or pole , ufed to extend the upper edge ...
... fail , lower edge or bottom . FOOT - ROPE , the rope to which the foot of a fail is fewed . FORE , all that part of a fhip's frame and machinery which lies near the head . G. GAFF , a fort of boom or pole , ufed to extend the upper edge ...
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... fail thereon . SPRING is also a rope paffed out of one extremity of a ship and at- tached to a cable proceeding from the other , when she lies at anchor . It is ufually done to bring the ship's broad - fide , or battery of cannon , to ...
... fail thereon . SPRING is also a rope paffed out of one extremity of a ship and at- tached to a cable proceeding from the other , when she lies at anchor . It is ufually done to bring the ship's broad - fide , or battery of cannon , to ...
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... fail we could , to get without the Streight's mouth . At 11 o'clock I would have shortened fail for the Swallow , but it was not in my power , for as a current fet us ftrongly down upon the Ifles of Direction , and the wind came to the ...
... fail we could , to get without the Streight's mouth . At 11 o'clock I would have shortened fail for the Swallow , but it was not in my power , for as a current fet us ftrongly down upon the Ifles of Direction , and the wind came to the ...
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OF | 185 |
GENERAL INTRODUCTION Page i | 194 |
An Explanation of the Nautical Terms not generally understood which | 207 |
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