10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRESS OF CANVAS»
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When the Anne is stopped by a British Royal Navy frigate, Isaac and several shipmates are forcibly pressed into service on the Orpheus, which is actively engaged in England's long-running war with France.
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Fighting at Sea in the Eighteenth Century: The Art
of ...
Sailing under a heavy press of canvas to escape or to catch an adversary, even a
judicious reduction of sail plan would naturally be inadvisable because of the
inevitable loss of speed. Thus Captain Young recorded how the French fleet to ...
3
Life on the Ocean; or, twenty years at sea: being the ...
229 betweon Diego Ramirez and the coast, or to set it press of canvas and
endeavour to heat off shore. Either of these resorts would be attended with great
peril and danger. I resolved, however, to' choose the latter, so that I could have
the ...
George LITTLE (of Baltimore.), 1847
4
Parliamentary Papers, House
of Commons and Command
A strong steady breeze with but little sea, making a good press of canvas to be
carried, indicated favourable results. " ' Defence ' started to leeward of all ships
except ' Hector,' but as she lost considerably soon after starting, through getting
up ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1867
5
On the Concentration
of the Material, the Manual and ...
It should be borne in mind, that it scarcely ever happens that ships engage under
a press of canvas, and if they commence the action under all sail, the shot
speedily reduces it, on both side s ; it is when the canvas is removed that the fatal
...
6
The Annual
of the Royal School
of Naval Architecture and ...
We find ourselves in this dilemma, that unless we come to the conclusion that
Captain Burgoyne had grown in boldness and confidence with such rapidity that
he carried more than twice the press of canvas on this than on any former cruise,
...
Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (London, England), 1871
7
Accounts and Papers
of the House
of Commons
A strong steady breeze with but little sea, making a good press of canvas to be
carried, indicated favourable results. " ' Defence ' started to leeward of all ships
except ' Hector,' but as she lost considerably soon after starting, through getting
up ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1867
8
Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court
of the United ...
Neither vessel had any studding-sails, nor any greater press of canvas than is
usual in such a voyage, nor is it by any means certain that either had any more
sail set than was re: lonably necessary to keep the full control and proper ...
United States. Supreme Court, John William Wallace, 1870
9
Cape Horn to the Pacific: The Rise and Decline
of an Ocean ...
On the night of October 12th, during a heavy gale, but carrying, as usual, a press
of canvas, the maintopmast trestle-trees settled, which slackened the topmast
backstays and away went the topmast over the side, taking with it the fore
topmast, ...
We find ourselves in this dilemma, that unless we come to the conclusion that
Captain Burgoyne had grown in boldness and confidence with such rapidity that
he carried more than twice the press of canvas on this than on any former cruise,
...
Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1871
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRESS OF CANVAS»
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... Joe and Julie with structural challenges as they began working to windward against the Bay's summer breezes under a press of canvas. «The Chesapeake Bay Journal, Oct 10»
