land-tack

Updated: May 29, 2025

Wind S.W. P.M. moderate and hazy; half-past 2 tacked, Cape Trafalgar S.E. three or four leagues, got springs on the anchors; at 8h. standing up the Gut of Gibraltar, Admiral S. by W. three-quarters of a mile; at 12h. taken aback, came to the wind on the land-tack; at 6h.

Sir John Ross - Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I