 | 1846 - 664 páginas
...the moment of concussion. It soon arrived : the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...to recoil ; but the next wave, curling up under her counter, drove her about her own length within the margin of the ice, where she gave one roll, and... | |
 | Frederick William Beechey - 1843 - 392 páginas
...moment of concussion. It soon arrived, — the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...to recoil ; but the next wave, curling up under her counter, drove her about her own length within the margin of the ice, where she gave one roll, and... | |
 | 1850 - 638 páginas
...moment of concussion. It SIMHI arrived — the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...cracking timbers from below bespoke a pressure which waa calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions." During this period of agony and suspense, the... | |
 | 1845 - 376 páginas
...moment of concussion. It soon arrived, — the brig cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...footing, the masts bent with the impetus, and the crackling timbers from below bespoke a pressure which was calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions.... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1846 - 574 páginas
...moment of concussion. It soon arrived — the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...was calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions." — pp. 123, 1'24. Captain Beechey proceeds to give a most formidable account of the state of the ship,... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1850 - 380 páginas
...moment of concussion. It soon arrived ; — the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...was calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions Her motion was so great that the ship's bell, which in the heaviest gale of wind had never struck of... | |
 | 1850 - 762 páginas
...the moment of concussion. It soon arrived; the hiig cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant we all lost our footing, the masts bent with the impclus, and the cracking timbers f rom beIO\Y bespoke a pressure which was calculated to awaken our... | |
 | John Joseph Shillinglaw - 1851 - 402 páginas
...the moment of concussion. It soon arrived;—the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...was calculated to awaken our serious apprehensions Her motion was so great that the crew. "Each person instinctively secured ship's bell, which in the... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - 1852 - 424 páginas
...of concussion. " It soon arrived,—the brig, (Trent) cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...to recoil; but the next wave, curling up under her counter, drove her about her own length within the margin of the ice, where she gave one roll, and... | |
 | 1852 - 634 páginas
...the moment of concussion. It soon arrived — the brig cutting her way through the light ice came in violent contact with the main body. In an instant...lost our footing, the masts bent with the impetus of the crashing timbers from below, and bespoke a pressure calculated to awaken our serious apprehension.... | |
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Each person instinctively secured his own hold, and, with his eyes fixed upon the masts, awaited in breathless anxiety the moment of concussion. It soon arrived : the brig, cutting her way through the light ice, came in violent contact with the main body.... 
