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And behind her, again, came a great five-masted ironclad, gliding with slow and stately motion up the river on her way to Chatham. "Oh, what a monster of a ship!" exclaimed little Blanche Lascelles as the ironclad approached near enough to the Galatea to enable those on board to realise her vast proportions.
She certainly looked as unlike our notions of a man-of-war as anything could be, though, as Paul Truck observed, "she would crumple up the Minotaur in a few minutes with her four thirty-five ton guns, powerful as the five-masted ship appears." Though she looked only fit for harbour work, Paul said that she had been out in heavy weather, and proved a fair sea-boat.
I pieced these out with answers to my questions, for often Steve's English was more puzzling than pre-Chaucer poetry. The El Dorado was a five-masted schooner, twelve years old, and left Astoria, Oregon, for Antofagasta, Chile, on a Friday, more than seven months before, with a crew of eleven all told: the captain, two mates, a Japanese cook, and seven men before the mast.
Then he never would take a rest; and I don't want any martyrs or neurasthenics round my office. You got anything on the fire that's liable to burn or boil over, before you get back?" "Nothing to worry about, Cappy," Matt answered. "Our five-masted schooner Mindoro is the only vessel requiring immediate attention.
She paused with an inquiring look, and he led her back towards the edge of the bluff. "Miss Minturn, do you see a vessel far out at sea?" he asked. "Yes, it is a " "Pardon me, please," he interposed; "it is a five-masted schooner, with sails all set, is it not?" "Why, yes," she began, turning to him in surprise, to find him looking off at the vessel, his right eye covered with one hand.
On the fourth day of the ninth month of 1555, a two-masted ship carrying a crew of some hundreds came to Kinshan-hai, and on the next day she was followed by eight five-masted vessels with crews totalling some thousands. They all went on shore and looted in succession. On the 23d of the second month of 1556, pirate ships arrived at the entrance to Kinshan-hai.
At last, when there seemed no longer any hope of rescue, the big five-masted schooner Governor Ames came plunging through the heaving seas, and, by masterly seamanship and good fortune, backed by the heroism of her commander and crew, succeeded in taking off all except four, who went down with the ship. But the work went on.
"We have just received a telegram from our Plymouth correspondent, to say that soon after daybreak this morning torpedo-boat No. 157 steamed into the Sound, bringing the news that she had sighted a large five-masted air-ship about ten miles from the coast, when in company with the cruiser Ariadne, whose commander had despatched her with the news.
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