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Gibney sprang to the fore-top-sail halyards and let them go and the fore-top-sail came down by the run. "Hard-a-starboard! Make her fast, Bart, an' come up here an' help me with the anchor. Let go the main-top-sail halyards as you come by an' stand by the compressor on the windlass." The Chesapeake swung slowly, broadside to the first of the ebb and with the wind on her port beam, Mr.
"You youngsters certainly get me, for the things you think of," laughed the shipyard's owner. "And the 'Farnum, or whatever it is, is coming up," called Captain Jack, suddenly. "I just felt my lead slide down over the top of her hull. Hard-a-starboard, Hal, and row hard," shouted young Benson, breathlessly. Though Hastings obeyed immediately he was barely an instant too soon. To his dismay, Mr.
“You youngsters certainly get me, for the things you think of,” laughed the shipyard’s owner. “And the ’Farnum,’ or whatever it is, is coming up,” called Captain Jack, suddenly. “I just felt my lead slide down over the top of her hull. Hard-a-starboard, Hal, and row hard,” shouted young Benson, breathlessly. Though Hastings obeyed immediately he was barely an instant too soon. To his dismay, Mr.
Mike Murphy took a casual glance in the direction Cappy was pointing, while the master of the Narcissus reached for his marine glasses and lazily put them to his eyes. "Shark be damned!" yelled Murphy. "It's a torpedo or I'm a Chinaman! Hard-a-starboard!"
It's hard-a-port or hard-a-starboard every minute; and if your coat-tail jibes, away goes something, and whatever it is that smashes, Mrs T always swears it was the most valuable thing in the room. I'm like a bull in a china-shop. One comfort is, that I never come in here except when there's company. Indeed, I'm not allowed, thank God.
And, disregarding the master of the Narcissus, who was staring vacantly after the flying torpedo, he rang for Full Speed Ahead, and called down the speaking tube to the chief to hook her on for all he had; then, with his helm still hard-a-starboard, he swung the ship in as small a circle as possible and headed her at full speed back over the course so recently traveled by the torpedo.
Captain Leicester, on seeing the near approach of the hurricane, had, after hailing his men to come down from aloft, lashed the wheel hard-a-starboard, and then, accompanied by Mr Bowen, he hurried away to the foot of the main-mast, where they cast off the starboard fore-braces and hauled in upon the larboard until they had braced the topsail as sharp up as it was possible for two men to get it.
Still the motor boat came onward, at a speed something better than fourteen miles. "Hard-a-starboard!" Darrin roared back to his own tillerman. Then he repeated his hail. He was almost frenzied now; for the motor boat had not yet changed its course. Suddenly, when the two craft were almost together, the engineer, after throwing over his wheel, held up one hand.
He recalled to mind Mr. Murphy's favorite story of the old sailing skipper who went into steam and who, during his very first watch on the steamship's bridge, ordered the man at the wheel to starboard his helm, and then forgot to tell him to steady it the consequence being that the helmsman held hard-a-starboard and the ship commenced to describe a circle; whereupon the old sailing skipper got excited and screamed: "Back that main yard!"
The day we were starting there was rum served out to the crew. Mr. Jagger supplied it. When the vessel started, nearly all the crew were drunk. I had the wheel. About five minutes after she started I cut the spunyarn. The vessel began to go on the rocks. One of the crew shouted, 'Hard-a-starboard! I shouted that the port wheel chain was broken. Then the vessel went ashore.... Mr.
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