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... dangers of the deep . " In the old times , when only sailing ships were known , never a year passed without a sad list of wrecks and disasters . So terrible were the losses , that the British Admiralty set on foot official inquiries as ...
... dangers of the deep . " In the old times , when only sailing ships were known , never a year passed without a sad list of wrecks and disasters . So terrible were the losses , that the British Admiralty set on foot official inquiries as ...
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... danger navigation in winter , doubtless owe their existence to the presence , in that cold sea , of immense volumes of warm water brought by the Gulf Stream . Sir Philip Brooke found the air on each side of it at the freezing point ...
... danger navigation in winter , doubtless owe their existence to the presence , in that cold sea , of immense volumes of warm water brought by the Gulf Stream . Sir Philip Brooke found the air on each side of it at the freezing point ...
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... dangers of the Atlantic have been greatly lessened , although disasters when they do occur are of a magnitude unknown before . The first steamer that crossed the Atlantic was the " Sirius , " in 1838 , the year after the accession of ...
... dangers of the Atlantic have been greatly lessened , although disasters when they do occur are of a magnitude unknown before . The first steamer that crossed the Atlantic was the " Sirius , " in 1838 , the year after the accession of ...
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... danger . We read , for instance , in the month of April of this year , that on her way to New York the Belgian steamer " Ferdinand Van der Taelan , " Captain Catloor , was laid to on the night of the 18th ult . , owing to the presence ...
... danger . We read , for instance , in the month of April of this year , that on her way to New York the Belgian steamer " Ferdinand Van der Taelan , " Captain Catloor , was laid to on the night of the 18th ult . , owing to the presence ...
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... danger of continuing on her course the steamer's head was turned to the southward , and the ice was left behind . A heavy gale was met on the 20th , and on the 23rd a wooden vessel about 70 ft . long was passed floating bottom up . It ...
... danger of continuing on her course the steamer's head was turned to the southward , and the ice was left behind . A heavy gale was met on the 20th , and on the 23rd a wooden vessel about 70 ft . long was passed floating bottom up . It ...
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