The new British channel pilot, containing sailing directions from London to Liverpool [&c.]. |
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Common terms and phrases
12 fathoms 12 feet abreast Alderney anchor anchorage Bank Beachy Head bearing N. E. black buoy buoy cable's length called Cape Carnsore Point Castle channel Church clear Cliff coast dangerous distance east buoy east end east side eastern side eastward entrance extends fathoms fathoms water feet at low feet water Flat Holm flood Formby full and change ground half a mile half-ebb harbour high water House Island Isle keep land larboard leagues ledge lies Light Vessel Lighthouse low water Margate mark middle Morte Point neaps nearly North Foreland North Foreland Lighthouse north side northward passage Penlee Point pier head Point Portsdown Hill quarter Reculvers red buoy river Road rocky sand ships shoal shore small vessels south side southward Spit starboard side Steep Holm steer stream three-quarters tide Tower Trinity House weather west end west side westerly western westward white buoy Wicklow Head winds
Popular passages
Page 171 - ... and 49° 25', according to the inclination of the wind; "because (says Capt. M. White, RN,) it is between these limits that your relative situation can, with the greater certainty, be ascertained, as well as in respect to depth of water as to quality of ground, or the distinction between oaze and sand, and which cannot be so well defined in any other latitude on making an approach to the Channel.
Page vii - The base of the hill is from 1700 to 1800 feet on each side, or just 1 mile in circuit. On the east and south sides the approach to the hill is covered by a large swamp, half a mile in length, and nearly a quarter of a mile in breadth, which dries up annually in the summer, but during the seasonal rains has a general depth of about 3 feet. In the...
Page 169 - It flows here, on the change and full days, at half-past four ; but in the offing the stream continues to run for 3 hours longer. Between the Isle de Bas and Ushant the flood-tide sets east, and the ebb west; in the Passage da Four the flood runs to the northward, and the ebb to the southward.
Page 12 - Brahe and Ramsgate, lies the Inner or Ramsgate Channel ; for navigating which the following directions have been given by the Harbour Trust at Ramsgate. RAMSGATE. It being of importance that ships should not run for RAMSGATE HARBOUR when it is low water, the following rules must be observed. A red flag will be hoisted upon the Cliff, near Jacob's Ladder, in the day-time, when there are 10 feet water between the Pier Heads ; and, in the night, a light in the lighthouse upon the west Pier will be lighted,...
Page 39 - Eace you will shoal from 18 to 7 fathoms, aod quickly deepen again to 10 and 15 fathoms, and you will continue to do so until you are through it. At spring-tides, and when the sea is high, it breaks exceedingly, making it very dangerous for small laden merchant ships. The distance of the Race from the Bill of Portland varies; when the wind is from the north, "the distance is about 1J mile; when it is from the west, it is driven to within j of a mile from the Bill.
Page vii - Harbour do hereby give notice, that the following changes in the Lighting, Beaconing, and Buoying of the Northern Approaches to this port, will take place on and after the night of Thursday, October 10th, 1839, viz.
Page 133 - Cove, a little more than a cable's length from shore, in 4 or 5 fathoms : but there is water enough for the largest ships to anchor above Cove, any where in the channel of the river, which lies close along the eastern shore, and is not above a cable's length wide until you get near to the town of Kinsale, where the channel is broader.
Page 174 - If a ship crosses the current obliquely, steering a true E. by S. course, or more southerly, she will continue in it longer, and be more affected by it, than if she steered more directly across it. It will be the same if she crosses it with light winds. Allowance must also be made for the more northerly direction of the eastern border. After a continuance of westerly gales, even should a good observation of latitude be made, it would be imprudent to run eastward, during a long night.
Page 133 - Roehs on the west side, keep within three-quarters of a mile of the shore, on the west side of the bay. The water, within a ship's length of the Horse Rock, is deep all around. Vessels may anchor, with westerly winds, on the west side of Courtmacsherry Bay, either off the Officers...
Page 39 - ... sea, against which few anchors would hold, or few vessels could attempt to beat, with any prospect of success ; for, although the tide sweeps strongly along the cliffs to the southward, yet the influence thereof is too closely confined to the shore to produce any advantageous effect on vessels striving to gain an offing. It is however, possible, between the periods of half-flood and half-ebb...