... sea and of seamanship, but also an unusual amount of pluck, perseverance, and determination. It is one thin0 to be able to sail single-handed round the world, but quite another to be able to write a really interesting and readable book on the subject ...

... shows that when Nelson sailed forth to battle the leaven of change was beginning to work. At the Queen's accession the Navy List showed twenty-one steamers, of which few, however, were armed. The transformation of our fleet from sail to steam may be said ...

... straight aloft, and we were steaming under bare poles. By noon we were level with our friend, which had top-sail, top-gallant sail, and fore-sail set, and the breeze now freshening, we loosed our square canvas, as we found ourselves alongside the 1anchzcester ...

... the number of the men who man our sailing vessels has fallen off one-third, whilst the number of the men who navigate steam vessels has more than doubled. In 1867, we had x96,340 men employed in the British sailing and steam vessels-exclusive of those ...

... hurricane were equally so. working the s'lip and sails. The admiral appeared determined to put sighting powers to a most severe but practical test, for soon after eight A.M. the signal was made to Captain to furl sails and fire her 25-ton guns with battering charges ...

... which is strong during the day, blows from the north, and thus enables the sailing craft to make good progress up the river; the return is very simple-they furl their sails, and during the night, when the wind usually blows lightly, drift down the stream ...

... type of sail in .- t. pressure of the wind, although having a driving action ordinary ail, has no tendency whatever to incline the 'Illy wind pressure acts practically at right angles to the mean Tach of the sail, and by properly designing the sail the line ...

... EXPEDITIONS IT will be remembered that Mr. B. Leigh Smith, in following up his previous year's discoveries in Franz Josef Land, sailed from Peterhead in his private ship Eisa on June 14th, 1881. Nova Zembla was sighted on the 30th, and after many attempts an ...

... fashionable running bowsprit, set up rather high, carrying jib and fore staysail; that she possessed a splendid suit of sails, drew into folds from the tack to the sheet, and seemed to require a little short- coming in the luff. The Cambria came in ...

... during part of the month of September at Chefoo, wirites: -'On Monday and Tuesday (Sept. io and i s), we hrid the rowing and sailing regatta for the fleet, in both of which this ship came well to the fore. Wednesday and Thursday were given over to the Chefoo ...

... high-pooped stern and rampant bow or beak ; one mast, and one large square sail, which does not reef, but has bonnets, or pieces laced on ; and these are the old slow-sailing jegts which bring down fish from Lofoden Islands to Bergen, the reat fish ...

... dimensions were held to be quite a departure from recognised models; her beam was broader in proportion to her length, and her sail-area was such as to be peculiarly adapted for light winds. For instance, whereas the Genes/a, by Y.R A. tonnage, was io5 tons ...