The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with Maritime Affairs, 37. kötetBrown, Son and Ferguson, 1868 |
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12. oldal
... distance also by night , and better if it should have a light , and can be approached without any risk . Cape Trafalgar may be made by vessels bound to the Mediterranean that have already confirmed their position by seeing Cape St ...
... distance also by night , and better if it should have a light , and can be approached without any risk . Cape Trafalgar may be made by vessels bound to the Mediterranean that have already confirmed their position by seeing Cape St ...
13. oldal
... distance in clear weather , are excel- lent marks for it . San Cristoval , known to navigators under the name of Cabeza del Moro , is 1755 metres ( 5758 feet ) high , and may be seen from a vessel twenty - five to thirty miles from the ...
... distance in clear weather , are excel- lent marks for it . San Cristoval , known to navigators under the name of Cabeza del Moro , is 1755 metres ( 5758 feet ) high , and may be seen from a vessel twenty - five to thirty miles from the ...
16. oldal
... distance from it by the depth of water and the character of the bottom . The depth of a hundred fathoms off Cadiz and the gulf of Huelva is more than twenty miles from the shore . Navigation from the Strait with a S.W. wind . On ...
... distance from it by the depth of water and the character of the bottom . The depth of a hundred fathoms off Cadiz and the gulf of Huelva is more than twenty miles from the shore . Navigation from the Strait with a S.W. wind . On ...
17. oldal
... distance ; for the currents will set the vessel to the northward , and how much , it will be difficult to determine . Having made the Cies islets , which are high and remark- able , she may take Vigo inlet or continue for her port if it ...
... distance ; for the currents will set the vessel to the northward , and how much , it will be difficult to determine . Having made the Cies islets , which are high and remark- able , she may take Vigo inlet or continue for her port if it ...
18. oldal
... distance so as to avoid the strength of the current , which is always heaviest in shore and succeed in getting a slant of wind from N.W. with which they make very fairly to the N.E .; but small craft and coasters find themselves obliged ...
... distance so as to avoid the strength of the current , which is always heaviest in shore and succeed in getting a slant of wind from N.W. with which they make very fairly to the N.E .; but small craft and coasters find themselves obliged ...
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88. oldal - All foreign coin shall be current in Japan, and pass for its corresponding weight of Japanese coin of the same description. Americans and Japanese may freely use foreign or Japanese coin in making payments to each other.
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576. oldal - And in order that the above provisions as to forfeitures may be carried into effect, it shall be lawful for any commissioned officer on full pay in the military or naval service of Her Majesty, or any British officer of customs, or any British consular officer, to seize and detain...
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86. oldal - The entire roof is covered with a plating of gold, in the same manner as we cover houses, or more properly churches, with lead. The ceilings of the halls are of the same precious metal ; many of the apartments have small tables of pure gold...
576. oldal - If any colours usually worn by Her Majesty's ships, or any colours resembling those of Her Majesty, or any distinctive national colours, except the red ensign usually worn by merchant ships, or except the Union Jack with a white...
238. oldal - With a painful feeling of the impossibility of overcoming the obstacles which nature opposed to us, our last hope vanished of discovering the land, which we yet believed to exist.
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