An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms by Means of Facts: Arranged According to Place and Time; and Hence to Point Out a Cause for the Variable Winds, with the View to Practical Use in Navigation. Illustrated by Charts and Wood CutsJ. Weale, 1838 - 436 páginas |
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anchor August August 17 August 21 Barbadoes barometer blew blowing bolt-rope bowsprit breezes and cloudy breezes and squally brig calm Cape Captain CHAP close-reefed cloudy weather deck distance Ditto weather East eastward Extract fore fore-topsail foresail gales and squally Hard gales hard squalls heavy gale heavy rain heavy sea heavy squalls Hour hurricane Island Jamaica K. F. Courses larboard latitude leagues Light airs Light breezes Log of H.M.S. longitude main-topsail mainsail March March 15 Martinique masts Mauritius Midnight miles mizen Moderate breezes Noon north-east north-west observed October October 16 P. M. Fresh breezes P. M. Light P. M. Moderate P. M. Strong Port Louis pumps reefed Remarks rigging sail south-east south-west staysail storm Strong breezes Strong gales swell sympiesometer Ther top-gallant topsail trysail Variable vessel VIII violent waterspout Wednesday West wore ship wreck yards Н А Р С НА Р СНАР
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Página 406 - Eleven of them ranged alongside of us about the distance of three miles. The greatest diameter of the largest appeared to me at that distance as if it would measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at...
Página 401 - ... furled in time, were in danger of splitting. The wind blew with great violence, momentarily changing its direction, as if it were sweeping round in short spirals ; the rain which fell in torrents was also precipitated in curves, with short intervals of cessation. Amidst this thick shower, the waterspout was discovered, extending in a tapering form, from a dense stratum of cloud to within thirty feet of the water, where it was hid by the foam of the sea, being whirled upwards by a tremendous gyration.
Página 406 - NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.
Página 9 - From a dense cloud a cone descends, in the form of a trumpet, with the small end downwards: at the same time, the surface of the sea under it is agitated and whirled round, the waters are...
Página 3 - I determined to verify them by making charts on a large scale, and on these laying down the different reports of the wind at points given in the
Página 402 - From the accounts of this officer and Mr. Smyth, who were at a distance from the ship, the column of the waterspout first descended in a spiral form, until it met the ascending column a short distance from the sea ; a second and a third were afterwards formed, which subsequently united into one large column, and this again separated into three small spirals, and then dispersed.
Página 428 - ... tack. Had she been on the other tack, the wind in veering would have drawn aft ; then, perhaps, she would not have lain so long " with her broadside in the trough of the sea, and with her lee-waist full of water.
Página 30 - The horrible roar and yelling of the wind, the noise of the ocean, whose frightful waves threatened the town with the destruction of all that the other elements might spare — the clattering of tiles, the falling of roofs and walls, and the combination of a thousand other sounds, formed a hideous and appalling din.
Página 396 - WIND 0 Calm. 1 Light Air 2 Light Breeze 3 Gentle Breeze 4 Moderate Breeze 5 Fresh Breeze 6 Strong Breeze — 7 Moderate Gale 8 Fresh Gale 9 Strong Gale 10 Whole Gale...
Página 372 - ... with thick weather, commonly with rain; it veers gradually to the west, increasing in strength, and when it veers to the southward of that point the weather begins to clear up; at south-west the gale blows hardest, and the barometer rises; and by the time the wind gets to south or south-south-east it CHAP.