Old Ocean's Ferry: The Log of the Modern Mariner, the Trans-Atlantic Traveler, and Quaint Facts of Neptune's RealmJohn Colgate Hoyt Bonnell, Silver, 1900 - 266 pages |
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... height 70 feet , weight 12,000 tons . It took nearly three months to launch her when completed ( between Nov. 3 , 1857 , and Jan. 13 , 1858 ) , at a cost of £ 60,000 . Her trial trip was disastrous , several persons being killed by an ...
... height 70 feet , weight 12,000 tons . It took nearly three months to launch her when completed ( between Nov. 3 , 1857 , and Jan. 13 , 1858 ) , at a cost of £ 60,000 . Her trial trip was disastrous , several persons being killed by an ...
Page 175
... oil . The first trial was made on the Scandia , in a storm on the Atlantic . A large quantity of soap and water was discharged over the bow , and its effect was nearly instantaneous , the height of the waves COMMERCE AND SHIPPING . 175.
... oil . The first trial was made on the Scandia , in a storm on the Atlantic . A large quantity of soap and water was discharged over the bow , and its effect was nearly instantaneous , the height of the waves COMMERCE AND SHIPPING . 175.
Page 176
... height of the waves being so diminished that the vessel could be managed without difficulty . The steamer Senegal , struck by a squall in the Adriatic , used soap and water with the same result . Six pounds of soap were dissolved in 70 ...
... height of the waves being so diminished that the vessel could be managed without difficulty . The steamer Senegal , struck by a squall in the Adriatic , used soap and water with the same result . Six pounds of soap were dissolved in 70 ...
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... height of them as about 9,000 feet - a fairly good sized mass of solid water . In May , 1895 , the Inch- green passed close alongside of a berg that Captain Miller estimated had an altitude of 700 feet above the sea COMMERCE AND ...
... height of them as about 9,000 feet - a fairly good sized mass of solid water . In May , 1895 , the Inch- green passed close alongside of a berg that Captain Miller estimated had an altitude of 700 feet above the sea COMMERCE AND ...
Page 183
... height the sailors were kept busy shovelling the dust from the steamer's decks . The ma- chinery was made to work with great difficulty , and at one time the captain had grave apprehensions that they would be dashed upon the Cape Verde ...
... height the sailors were kept busy shovelling the dust from the steamer's decks . The ma- chinery was made to work with great difficulty , and at one time the captain had grave apprehensions that they would be dashed upon the Cape Verde ...
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Page 25 - By act of Congress approved March 23, 1888, a fee of one dollar is required to be collected for every citizen's passport. That amount in currency or postal money order should accompany each application. Orders should be payable to the Disbursing Clerk of the Department of State.
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