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It does not follow that a large ship would inevitably be destroyed if brought within the vortex of a waterspout; but it is certain that she would run the risk of being dismasted, and perhaps thrown on her beam-ends. Navigators have not had sufficient experience of the power of waterspouts to pronounce authoritatively on that point, and it is to be hoped they never will.
Mr. Talboys, though not the accomplished sailor he thought himself, knew this as well as anybody, and with the boy's help he lowered the sail at the right moment; but, getting his head awkwardly in the way, the yard, in coming down, hit him on the nose and nearly knocked him on to his beam-ends.
So, if you've no objections, I'd take it very kind of you if you'd lend me a hand at this job while the skipper's on his beam-ends. He's got a real dandy sextant in his cabin that I'll take it upon me to let you have the use of; and the chronometer's in there too. We might as well have them things out of there too, then we shan't have to disturb the young lady every time we wants 'em."
Then they ain't nowhere else aboard this unlucky hooker; they're overboard that's where they are went when the squall struck us and very nigh throwed us on our beam-ends. And it's my fault all my fault; it's I that have lost them three men. Ye see, Mr Leslie, it's like this here.
And then there was a shock that threw them prostrate, a writhing and twisting of every plank beneath them, and the tornado had struck the yacht and knocked her on her beam-ends. "Cut away the weather rigging!" they heard the captain thunder through all the rout before they had once tried to regain themselves.
There was a bell on board; and as the ship rolled and dashed, like a desperate creature driven mad, now showing us the whole sweep of her deck, as she turned on her beam-ends towards the shore, now nothing but her keel, as she sprung wildly over and turned towards the sea, the bell rang; and its sound, the knell of those unhappy men, was borne towards us on the wind.
"How can a man be filled with serious thoughts, Molly, when a sort of Arabian Nights' affair has tumbled on him all of a sudden took him aback like a white squall, and thrown him on his beam-ends?" "And what a selfish fellow you are, too!" said Jeff; "not one word in all you propose to do about anybody except yourself no mention even of Rosebud." "Pooh!
The night was uncommonly dark, the banks of the river being scarcely perceptible; and although it appeared to me we were much nearer then than prudence would warrant, we still drew nearer, when our progress was suddenly arrested. The vessel struck violently on a sunken rock, and heeled over so much that she was nearly thrown on her beam-ends.
The gig which had been hanging at the davits ever since the Aurora cleared out of the docks at London, had been destroyed when the ship was thrown on her beam-ends in the hurricane; and the men had been so busy on apparently more important duties that they had had no opportunity of getting another boat ready for service; hence there was now a considerable amount of delay in the launching of the boat which George intended to despatch in search of the swimmer.
"Have you got the hatchet yet?" asked Tom of the mate, who clung to a belaying-pin close behind him. "Ay, but what matters it whether we strike the rocks on our beam-ends or an even keel?" The mate spoke in the tones of a man who desperately dares the fate which he cannot avoid. "Here! let me have it!" cried Tom. He seized the hatchet as he spoke and clambered to the gangway.
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