Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 205; Volume 208W. Blackwood, 1920 - Scotland |
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Page 7
... ship sufficient buoyancy to float , but how to make her light enough to float off the rock . She had been half - loaded when she went ashore , but as the cargo was discharged she had worked farther and farther up on to the rock until it ...
... ship sufficient buoyancy to float , but how to make her light enough to float off the rock . She had been half - loaded when she went ashore , but as the cargo was discharged she had worked farther and farther up on to the rock until it ...
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... ship in a foreign port encountered an inexplicable shortage of the particular kind of bag which he needed im- peratively for his loading , as a sequel to a very excusable loss of temper with a certain Mr Jacobus , of how his ship was ...
... ship in a foreign port encountered an inexplicable shortage of the particular kind of bag which he needed im- peratively for his loading , as a sequel to a very excusable loss of temper with a certain Mr Jacobus , of how his ship was ...
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... ships carry women as cooke . The practice , dietetically , has something to be said for it , though it leads ( however un ... ship's lifeboat to serve as a diving boat . The voyage across the White Sea , in radiant sunshine day and night ...
... ships carry women as cooke . The practice , dietetically , has something to be said for it , though it leads ( however un ... ship's lifeboat to serve as a diving boat . The voyage across the White Sea , in radiant sunshine day and night ...
Page 10
... ship was comfort- able enough , the saloon and cabins oleaned out for us , and the poop and forecastle fitted for the men with new doors and double tiers of bunks , which bore an extraordinary family resemblance to those in a German dug ...
... ship was comfort- able enough , the saloon and cabins oleaned out for us , and the poop and forecastle fitted for the men with new doors and double tiers of bunks , which bore an extraordinary family resemblance to those in a German dug ...
Page 11
... ship , to work the winches so that we could lower pumps and gear down into the ' tween- decks , and later to work the pumps themselves . We had failed to get a donkey - boiler in Archangel , and the ship's donkey - boiler was at the ...
... ship , to work the winches so that we could lower pumps and gear down into the ' tween- decks , and later to work the pumps themselves . We had failed to get a donkey - boiler in Archangel , and the ship's donkey - boiler was at the ...
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