Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 56

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Navy Records Society, 1922

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Pagina 5 - Our captain being lately slain in fight, We by your valour scap'd our enemies, And made their ship our prize. Since we first knew you, All our attempts succeeded prosperously, And Heav'n hath better blest us for your sake. 2. Mar. When first we took you to our fellowship, We had a poor bark of some fifteen ton, And that was all our riches. But since then We have took many a rich prize from Spain, And got a gallant vessel stoutly mann'd, And well provided of ordnance and small shot, Of men and ammunition,...
Pagina 210 - ... and sailors, that it doth even make me mad to hear it. But, my masters, I must have it left, for I must have the gentlemen to hale and draw with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman.
Pagina 124 - A LoofHook is a tackle with two hooks ; one to hitch into a cringle of the main and foresail, which cringle is in the bolt-rope of the leech of the sail, not far above the clew ; and the other to hitch into a strap, which is spliced into the chess-tree, and so to bowse down the sail. The use whereof is to succour the tack in a great gale, that all the force and stress may not bear upon the tack ; and also it is used when we would seize the tack surer, or the like.
Pagina 49 - THE | Sea-mans Dictionary : | Or An | Exposition | and Demonstration of all the Parts | and Things belonging to a | Shippe : | Together with an Explanation of all | the Termes and Phrases used in the Practique of | Navigation. | Composed by that able and experienced Sea-man Sr Henry | Manwayring Knight : And by him presented to the late Duke of | Buckingham, the then Lord High Admirall of England.
Pagina 120 - To lay a thip by the lee, is to bring her so that all her sails may be flat against the masts and shrouds, and that the wind may come right on her broadside, so that she will make little or no way. Lee Hatch. Tote care of the lee hatch. Take care, helmsman, that the ship goes not to the leeward of her course— ie, the part towards which the wind blows.
Pagina 11 - In their working they usually do thus: a little before day they take in all their sails, and lie a-hull, till they can make what ships are about them; and accordingly direct their course so as they may seem to such ships as they see to be Merchantmen bound upon their course. If they be a fleet, then they disperse themselves a little before day, some league or thereabouts asunder, and seeing no ships do most commonly clap close by a wind to seem as...
Pagina 210 - What! Let us show ourselves to be all of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know him that would refuse to set his hand to a rope, but I know there is not any such here.
Pagina 184 - is to have no more sail forth but the mainsail, the tack aboard, the bowline set up, the sheet close aft, and the helm tied down close aboard.
Pagina 27 - ... miserable and painful ; so again, as it is abused and purloined, it is very scant and dishonourable, to the great slander of the navy, to the discouragement of all them that are pressed thereunto, and to the hinderance of his majesty's service. For that many times, they go with a great grudging to serve in his majesty's ships, as if it were to be slaves in the galleys...

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