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THE NAVAL REVIEW

... the mooring swivels, the tide turned, and some of the ships got across in their cables. This naturally caused delay,- and the Anon and other ships got into great difficulties with their cables. F Ships which have no boweprits or jibbooms should have a derrick ...

TRADE AND SPADE

... in shine and show'r, R We'll learn to live apart; I rul'd the earth ere you were born; SI cast you from my heart. And Trade lost temper in his pride. A, Ile utter'd words of scorn; You do not husow the ways of men. Amid your sheep and corn - You doze away ...

Poetry

... ROVER'S BRIDE. Oh, beautiful! hoev beautiful The moon smiles on the sea; But aleer agLin my lost Corsair Will smile on love and me. No usore these eyes shall mark his ship Bound o'er the yielding wave; His dauntless band, who spurn'd the land, Have found an ...

Poetry

... their glory, Ile ask'd not of their cause; While, rijht or wrong, the weak and strong Obey d alike his Saws. One tyrant lost his war-ships; Worse tyrants summ'd their gains; And toil-worn nations sang and danc'd (As maniacs dance) in chains I How like an ...

THE STORY OF A HARTLEY WIDOW

... THE STORY OF A HARTLEY WIDOWV. The £20 given, on their re-marriage, to each of the widows of the men 'who lost their lives at Hartley Colliery has, it seems, acted as a premium to speculative wifo. seekers, and the consequonce Is that a good number of ...

MAURICE, THE CABIN BOY

... -'and get quickly to the ship in our canoes ?? for'now that the white men have 'foughte-`ttlt 'thiese :Mano dogs,' the ship will come here to us and' anchor; for I, Baringdi; am known to many white men. The name of the ship 'wai the i'Bodicea. She ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... south east, the sea to rise, and the ship began to strike heavily. The boats were got out, and the passengers were ordered up from below. 'T'hey were safely got into the boats, which kept to ths leeward of the ship for shelter until tho daylight. The barque ...

BRIEF CHRONICLER OF THE TIMES

... upwards of two hundred orphans.. The shipping companies and private ship owners of Stockton have resolved to lay up their vessels rather than employ them in the coal trade at the present low freights. Two more ships have arrived at Portsmouth, from China ...

THRILLING STORY OF THE SEA

... they wanted to be taken off, The capbtain of the bairque replied in the affirmative, and orders were then given to launch the ship's lifeboat. Owing to the gase Miuch prevailed the bhot was stove ili. and the jolly-boat Ws theen lowered, and the chief officer ...

Literary Notices

... 3Vaus leave thy all to others, clings To thy gay vessel's silken wings, And darkens o'er its prow. And thou art like a gallant ship, With streamers bright and pennons gay, Forth from the cheering port did sei), Upon a laughing summer's day. The scene is ...

THE SEA STORY OF AUSTRALIA

... from Batavis and the Cape of Good £ope, and lto procure such supplies Phillip had ?? two ships at his dispaa.1-the worn-out 'old frigate Sirius L b(which was lost at Norfolk Island 'soon after the i | founding of the aettlement) and a ssiall brig of war ...

Literary Extracts

... this was done by the British fleet, aided by a few Austrian B ay ships.' They blockaded Alexandria and the Syrian ports, m oh and in Septeisber they bombarded Beyrout. The Egyptians in lost ground everywhere, and ini NovemberAcre fell before the at iattacks ...