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One- eighth diameter of original. a. Side view. b. Front view, showing mouth and bisulcated keel. Ammonites planorbis, Sowerby. One-half diameter of original. Nautilus truncatus, Sowerby. Ammonites bifrons, Brug. Ammonites Walcotti, Sowerby. Ammonites margaritatus, Montf. Syn. Ammonites Stokesi, Sowerby.
Manifestly, to rest on these pivots is an impossibility; the overturned boat must fall on its side, in which position the heavy iron keel comes into play and drags the bottom down, thus placing the boat violently and quickly in her proper position. The simple plan here described was invented by the Reverend James Bremner, of Orkney, and exhibited at Leith, near Edinburgh, in the year 1800.
The idlers had left him alone; none were staring at him now. They were all intent on their own business, each man labouring after his kind. He heard the voice of a riverman as he toiled at a rope standing on the corn that filled his ghiassa from end to end, from keel to gunwale.
"How do you purpose raising her provided you are the successful bidder?" "Well, she has four hatches and she lies on an even keel. I'll build a coffer dam on her deck round these four hatches and pump her out. If we have enough pumps we can pump her out faster than the water can leak in under the coffer dam.
To an ignorant observer it might have seemed that all hope was gone that every man must perish. But this was not so. The buoyant qualities of the magnificent lifeboat brought it to the surface like a cork the instant it was freed. Its self-righting qualities turned it on its keel.
With a sufficient commander no stout ship is ever lost, so long as she has a foot of water beneath her false keel, or a ropeyarn left to turn to account." "And yet the Dane had all these." "All but the water. The best craft that was ever launched, is of less use than a single camel, if laid high and dry on the sands of Africa. These poor wretches truly!
Our tow-rope veered us out a long way, too far astern of the tug for her to help us as a breakwater, and the manner in which we were flung towards the sky with half our keel out of water and then dropped into a hollow like falling from the top of a house, sir, while the heads of the seas blew into and tumbled over us all the time, made us all reckon that, so far from getting any rest, most of our time would be spent in preventing ourselves from being washed overboard.
Already the apparatus to which was contrasted Lieutenant Larson's mercury tubes, had acted, and the Abaris, which had dipped, when all the passengers collected on one side, had now resumed her level keel again, showing that the gyroscope had worked so far at any rate. "Now we'll give her a trial," called Mr. Vardon. "All ready, come over on the run, and throw her around, Dick!"
See here now, I have invented certain ventilating pipes, they are to traverse the vessel thus" laying some toilette pins along "the current of air to enter here and be discharged there. What do you think of that? But now about the main things fast sailing driving little to leeward, and drawing little water. Look now at this keel. I whittled it only night before last, just before going to bed.
To return to the ship they put off in a heavy sea, knowing it would be difficult to work through the surf; but orders were orders, and delay would not help. So off they plunged, when suddenly a breaker "took the bow of the boat, and lifting her almost on end, turned her keel uppermost." All hands got safely ashore how, none could tell.
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