Papers and Addresses, Volumen 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1894 - 232 páginas |
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1817 LIBRARIES Admiralty Advance Note advantage amount Board of Trade British ships Captain cargo carried certificates CHIGAN coast command commercial Committee compasses condition cost Crew Tonnage danger deck desirable duty established experience Farrer favour fog signals foreign freight gales Galita Government important inquiry Inwards Outwards Inwards Inwards Outwards Tons less light lighthouses Liverpool load loss marine insurance maritime masters Mean Total ment mercantile marine merchant service Merchant Shipping MICHIGAN nautical navigation Navy necessary Norway object officers opinion Outwards Inwards Outwards owners Plimsoll port PORT OF LIVERPOOL practical profession proposed recent Red Sea Royal Commission Royal Naval Reserve Royal Navy sailing ships sailing vessels sailor scurvy seamen seaworthy shipbuilding shipmasters shipowner steam steamers Suez Canal survey surveyors tion Tonnage Men Crew Tons Men Tons torpedo Trinity House underwriter United Kingdom unseaworthy ships valued policy voyage policy wages wrecks
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Página 2 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 1 - midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Página 2 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Página 43 - We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, By losing of our prayers.
Página 35 - Ten days after the departure of the ship Ajax from the last port or place in the river or Firth of Clyde, in which, from any cause, she may be, before finally leaving for the voyage, for which this note is issued, pay to the order of John...
Página 84 - I went on shore for the first time since the 16th of June, 1803; and from having my foot out of the Victory, two years wanting ten days.
Página 112 - A perilous life, and sad as life may be, Hath the lone fisher, on the lonely sea, O'er the wild waters labouring far from home, For some bleak pittance e'er compelled to roam : Few hearts to cheer him through his dangerous life, And none to aid him in the stormy strife : Companion of the sea and silent air, The lonely fisher thus must ever fare : Without the comfort, hope, — with scarce a friend, He looks through life and only sees its end ! B.
Página 195 - ... armoured class in relation to their cost remains unchanged. All the advantage they possess in point of defence is a partial and imperfect protection against artillery fire. As regards rams and torpedoes, they are as vulnerable as ships without armour at all, and they are as liable to perish by the perils of the sea as any other kind of war-ship, while their cost is so great that the loss of any one of them from any cause amounts to a national calamity. Mr. White, in his paper on these new designs,...
Página 29 - think that the ship-owner should not be enabled to recover his insurances, whether under a time or voyage policy, when it could be shown that he or his agent had not done everything reasonably within their power to make and maintain the ship in a seaworthy condition, and that unseaworthiness occasioned the loss.