 | Physics - 1803 - 922 pages
...ftranded wrecks, which requires both difpatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows to the land, the boat will come in more without any other effort than {leering. I would flrongly recommend praflifing the boat, by which... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1803 - 540 pages
...stranded wrecks, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows to the land, the boat will come iu shore without any other effort than steering. I would strongly recommend practising the boat, by... | |
 | 1804 - 624 pages
...stranded wreck, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows to the land, the boat will come to the shore without any other effort than steering alone. The same munificent spirit which characterizes... | |
 | James Stanier Clarke - Shipwrecks - 1805 - 454 pages
...stranded Wrecks, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the Boat be not damaged. When the Wreck is reached, if the Wind blows...confidence people will have in her from repeated Trials. HENRY GREATHEAD. •»* The Sum of 1200!. was voted by Parliament to Mr. Creuthcad for this Invention.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed that the boat be not damaged. When tlie wreck is reached, if the wind blows to the land, the...come in shore without any other effort than steering. (Gregory's Cyrlojiivdia,) BOAT-BILL. In ornithology. See CANCROMA. BOAT-FLY. In entomology. See NOTOKi.CTA.... | |
 | John Campbell - Great Britain - 1817 - 562 pages
...stranded wrecks, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows...come in shore without any other effort than steering. '• 1 would strongly recommend practising the boat, by which means with experience, the danger will... | |
 | Charles Frederick Partington - Shipbuilding - 1826 - 164 pages
...stranded wrecks, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows...come in shore without any other effort than steering. Mr. Christopher Wilson received a gold medal in 1807, for a lifeboat with air gunwales, which was tried... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...stranded wrecks, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows...come in shore without any other effort than steering. The particular construction of this boat will be best understood by referring to our plate, LIFEBOAT,... | |
 | 1846 - 544 pages
...stranded wrecks, which requires both despatch and care in the people employed, that the boat be not damaged. When the wreck is reached, if the wind blows to the land, the boat will come inshore without any other effort than steering. In case of a ship being stranded on a part of the coast... | |
 | Thomas Antisell - Industrial arts - 1852 - 728 pages
...it with vast rapidity, without shipping any water. When a wreck is reached, if the wind blows to tho land, the boat will come in shore, without any other effort than steering. Schcerboom & Co. have recently invented an apparatus for converting any boat or vessel into a life-... | |
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... launches over it with vast rapidity, without shipping any water. It is necessary to observe, that there is often a strong reflux of sea, occasioned by the stranded wrecks, which requires both dispatch and care in the people employed, that the boat... 
