Ancient Ships And Navigators
Everything must have a beginning, and, however right and proper things may appear to those wh...
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Everything must have a beginning, and, however right and proper things may appear to those wh...
Leaving the subject of ancient ships and navigation, we shall now turn our attention to the m...
The coasting-trade of the British Islands is replete with danger, yet it is carried on with t...
“Many men, many minds,” runs the proverb. “Many nations, many ships,”...
Having in the previous chapters treated of the subjects of ancient navigation and ships, and ...
When our noble Lifeboat Institution was in its infancy, a deed was performed by a young woman...
As we have been led, in writing about ships of the navy, to refer to steam, we turn aside at ...
Rafts, as we have already remarked, must undoubtedly have been the beginning of navigation. B...
The Great Eastern steamship deserves to be regarded as the eighth wonder of the worl...
Once upon a time there were no ships. Men did not know the meaning of the word; they did not ...
Ships begin life with a retrograde movement; they imitate the crabs: in other words, they are...
“What is the compass?” every philosophical youth of inquiring dispositio...
We now come to speak of ships of large size, which spread an imposing cloud of canvas to the ...
The birth of the British Navy may be said to have taken place in the reign of King Alfred. Th...
In the storm of the 4th and 5th of August, 1880 She read mechanically under the arch of the do...
In the storm of the 4th and 5th of August, 1880 at the age of 23 years _Requiescat in...
There is, perhaps, no contrivance in the wide world more wonderful than a ship—a full-ri...
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Like a great shudder, a gust of wind rose from the sea, and at the same time something fell li...
At midnight Holdsworth came on deck to relieve the second mate. A man out of the port watch ca...
Sailors are men of rough habits, but their feelings are not by any means so coarse: if they po...
Denis was a pig, a very special sort of pig, a pig of German origin, and perhaps the only animal...
On the morning of the 5th of August, 1833, during a severe gale in lat. 46, lon. 31, Capt. Dem...
By the orders of the British government, I cruised for a season in the Cuban waters, for the e...
"What is it?" I exclaimed; "what can it be?" She pointed with her finger, and as the yacht s...
When he awakened he was hungry. The sea was growing calmer. But there was still a heavy swel...
"What was my horror when I saw the quicksilver had sunk so far below the mark, probably fixed ...
One stormy winter's evening, in the year 1579, Gerhard de Ver was sitting in the warm and chee...
The Phoenix of 44 guns, Capt. Sir Hyde Parker was lost in a hurricane, off Cuba, in the West I...
In the year 1791, Woodward sailed from Boston in the ship Robert Morris, Captain Hay, for the ...
On Friday the 15th of June 1722, after being out some time in a schooner with four men and a b...
Give a ship an unlucky name, and it will last throughout the whole of her career. A sailor is ...
"Keep her a good full, Mr. Hazard," said Roswell, as he was leaving the deck to take the first...
In the year 1743, a merchant of Mesen, in Russia, fitted out a vessel for the Greenland whale-...
Historians, in general, have given to the Biscayans the credit of having first practiced the f...
In the year 18--, said Capt. M----, I was bound, in a fine stout ship of about four hundred to...
In June, 1824, I embarked at Liverpool on board the Vibelia transport with the head-quarters o...
The climb had been a stiff one. The day was very hot, and, rather purple about the face and bre...
He was a short, thick-set, ruddy-faced, shrewd-eyed little person, who wore on the left sleeve o...
On the 19th of February 1752, a French East Indiaman, called the Prince, sailed from Port L'Or...
In the year 1818 the British Government fitted out two expeditions to the North Pole. Captain ...
On the fifth of July, A. D., 1811, the Russian sloop of war, Diana, approached Kumachir, one o...
No old Triton who has passed his calms under the bows of the long-boat could say of Joshua Bar...
The word "Dartmoor" means little to the ear of the American of this generation, for it is the ...
During one of the former wars, between France and England, in which the then Colonies bore an ...
The next morning Jack Easy would have forgotten all about his engagement with the captain, had...
The Amphion frigate, Captain Israel Pellow, after having cruised some time in the North Seas, ...
The Dutch who frequented the northern regions during the more favorable season of the year, in...
An old sailor sat on the Constitution's forecastle, with his back against the carriage of one ...
The most magnificent of all known caverns, is that called Fingal's Cave, in the Isle of Staffa...
In the ordinary course of a commercial education, in New England, boys are transferred from sc...
Every Russian officer is permitted to choose their servants from among the soldiers, the numbe...
The appearance of the first fragments of gulf-weed caused quite a little excitement, and set a...
On the lake front at Chicago during the World's Fair, close by the entrance to the long walk t...
La Tribune was one of the finest frigates in his Majesty's navy, mounted 44 guns, and had rece...
The Litchfield, Captain Barton, left Ireland on the 11th of November, 1758, in company with se...
The AEneas transport sailed with 347 souls on board, including a party of men belonging to the...
The following particulars of the loss of this vessel are copied from a letter dated Boulogne-s...
In addition to the many dreadful shipwrecks already narrated, the following, which is a circum...
The miseries of war are in themselves great and terrible, but the consequences which arise ind...
The Duke William Transport, commanded by Captain Nicholls, was fitted out by him with all poss...
The catastrophe which is now about to be related made a deep impression on the public mind. Th...
A misunderstanding having originated between the Court of Great Britain, and the Ottoman Porte...
Melville's exciting sea-tale relates the adventures of the Pequod, a Nantucket whaler, in pursui...
Jack Easy, the hero of Captain Marryat's story, was "no fool, but a bit of a philosopher." He ha...
The fourteenth day of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her...
About the year 1786, the merchants and planters interested in the West I...
The depredations committed on American commerce in the Mediterranean, by the piratical corsair...
Simultaneous ideas occurring to several people, or thought transference, whatever one likes to...
Compared with that of a "27-knotter" of twenty years ago the wardroom of a modern destroyer is a...
I served as assistant pilot on board the merchant vessel Dolphin, bound from Jamaica for Londo...
"Well, I'm damned!" ejaculated the first lieutenant, looking up from his breakfast as a barefoot...
We sailed from Plymouth under convoy of H. B. Majesty's ship St. Alban's, and two other ships ...
The newspapers published during the War of 1812, granted even that they were vastly prejudiced...
This is a story that has oft been told before. But in history, if a man becomes famous by one ...
Through drizzling fogs and vapors, and under damp, double-topsails, our wet-decked frigate dre...
In an ill hour, God knows, on the 1st of September, 1651, I went on board a ship bound for Lon...
Within the tropics, on a wondrous evening when the Southern trades were blowing with their bal...
We had never yet had the leisure to inspect the stores with which the mutineers had furnished ...
On the 30th of August 1633, the Dutch fleet sailed from North-Bay, in Spitzbergen, leaving sev...
On the Western Coast of Africa. By MADAME DARD, one of the Sufferers. In the year 1816, an ...
On the 5th of January, 1797, returning home on leave of absence from the West Indies, in the C...
Fair ship, I saw thee bounding o'er the deep, Thy white wings glancing in the mornin...
He was a very junior young officer indeed when the powers that be first gladdened his heart and ...
The northwester still continued, with a clear blue sky, without a cloud overhead by day, and a...
That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man--as his wont at intervals--stepped forth from t...
We continued our cruise along the coast, until we had run down into the Bay of Arcason, where ...
He said that he had been impressed into the English service from the brig Susan Butler, of New...
It was broad day when I awoke, and found myself tossing at the southwest end of Treasure Islan...
Captain Myron Symington was a long-legged Yankee. There was no mistaking him for anything else...
We cannot detain the narrative, to detail the scenes which busy wonder, aided by the relation ...
The _Rapier_ was an old destroyer, one of the 370-ton "thirty-knotters" completed in about 1901....
For many days we had been tempest-tossed. Six times had the darkness closed over a wild and te...
The Queen Charlotte was, perhaps, one of the finest ships in the British navy. She was launche...
On the 28th of September, 1785, the Peggy, commanded by Capt. Knight, sailed from the harbor o...
Admiral (afterwards Lord) Graves having requested leave to return to England in 1782, was appo...
On the 29th of August, 1782, it was found necessary that the Royal George, a line-of-battle sh...
I am not likely to forget that next morning, the 28th of August, (17--). It was a fine summer'...
On the 22d of October, 1812, at nine A.M., the United States brig Vixen crossed St. Mary's bar...
The glass had gone down with a thump during the afternoon, and all through the night the destroy...
One of the carronades of the battery, a twenty-four pounder, had broken loose. This is the ...
Out of the north they came in their grimy, bluff-bowed ships--the men behind the times! Three ...
North Latitude 23-1/2, Longitude East 113; the time March of this same year; the wind sout...
Sixteen years ago, when the ships of the Royal Navy still disported themselves in black hulls, w...
She was a member of that gallant and distinguished corps after which this article is named. You...
There is scarce any one, we apprehend, who is in any considerable degree conversant with the s...
"Twenty of those confounded Yankees give me more trouble than three decks full of Frenchmen," ...
The hero of Cooper's stirring sea-tale is a mysterious Pilot known as Mr. Gray, who, during the ...
"It is not possible to prevent the occasional appearance of enemy submarines within the range of...
It was February, the year after the war. The month had been cold and stormy. Frequent and sudd...
It was a famous dinner party that Captain William Bainbridge, Commander of the Charlestown Nav...
A few years ago a company of one of the English regiments of infantry, consisting of eleven of...
In the evening I started, ... down the road I had traversed under so many vicissitudes. "Do...
We were steaming to the westward, towards the spot where the sun, glowing like a disc of molten ...
The story of the wreck of the Grosvenor is supposed to be told by Mr. Royle, the second mate of ...
The annexed thrilling sketch is extracted from the "Life of a Sailor, by a Captain in the Brit...
Victor Hugo's "Toilers of the Sea" is a story of the Channel Islands between England and France....
We had refitted, and been four days at sea, on our voyage to Jamaica, when the gun-room office...
Jim Hawkins, the boy hero of Stevenson's tale, had sailed with a party of adventuresome gentleme...
"Oh, Bainbridge, you're going ashore with us, aren't you?" At these words a young man who wa...
Soon after embarking, and wearied by the exertions I had been obliged to make for the last few...
The following extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated November 11th, 1762, gives an accou...
The Sidney left Port Jackson, on the coast of New Holland, on the 12th of April, 1806, bound t...
The Rothsay Castle was a steam packet which formerly traded on the Clyde. She belonged to the ...
The Betsey, a small schooner of about 75 tons burden, sailed from Macao in China, for New Sout...
The strange sail was reported to Captain Dodd, then dressing in his cabin. He came soon after...
All that night it blew terribly hard, and raised as wild and raging a sea as ever I rememb...
"Tempest? It is blowing half a gale of wind; that is all." "Half a gale! Ah, that is the way...
The night had fallen over the harbour before the winch began to rattle. The stars came out...
My first determination was to seek a supply of breadfruit and water at Tofoa, and afterwards to ...
The intelligence of the mutiny, and the sufferings of Bligh and his companions, naturally excite...
About the year 1786, the merchants and planters interested in the West India Islands becam...
At day-break, the three mast-heads were punctually manned afresh. "D'ye see him?" cried Ahab, ...
When the sun leaped up the next morning, and the tropic light flashed suddenly into the tr...
That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man--as his wont at intervals--stepped forth fr...
We continued our cruise along the coast, until we had run down into the Bay of Arcason, wh...
The corvette, instead of sailing south, in the direction of St. Catherine, headed to the n...
Heligoland light--north and by west--so many leagues--wind baffling--weather hazy--Lady Pass...
North Latitude 23 1/2, Longitude East 113; the time March of this same year; the wind sout...
I "Fatty" Reid burst into the half-deck with a whoop of exultation. "Come out, boys," h...
The Icelanders were all returning now. Two ships came in the second day, four the next, a...
I The _Heart of Ireland_ was spreading her wings to the north-west trades, making a goo...
There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. On the other...
Our watchful adventurer captain was not blind to these sinister omens. No sooner did the p...
The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the solitary night-man at the ...