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Listen here!" he called out to Sammy Smith. The wireless chief dashed down the receivers and hurried to find Lieutenant Mcclure. "Ship approaching from the southwest," said Smith hurriedly. "Coming up the coast and apparently about two miles away." "Little Mack" adjusted the receivers and stood listening to the revolving propellers of the craft that approached and passed overhead.
Finally in 1833 and 1834 we find him employed by a carrying company in London to conduct numerous trials with submerged propellers in the London and Birmingham canal.
The horizontal rudder would not work, and the craft was rushing nearer and nearer, every minute, to the pile of brick and mortar. "We're going to have a collision!" shouted Tom. "Better shut off the power!" The two propellers were whirling around so swiftly that they looked like blurs of light. Mr. Sharp came rushing forward, and Tom relinquished the steering wheel to him.
Why don't you be sensible and tell us what you know?" The estate agent arose slowly and ponderously, drawing his shawl about him. He looked out seawards. In that black waste the steady beat of the yacht's propellers could be clearly heard, but not a gleam of light came from her, and it was impossible to decide in which direction she was going.
"I thought so!" said Redgrave, when the propellers had begun to revolve and Murgatroyd had taken his place in the conning-tower. "A very dense atmosphere loaded with clouds. There's the Sun just rising, so your ladyship's wishes are duly obeyed." "And doesn't it seem nice and homelike to see him rising through an atmosphere above the clouds again?
“If you give the speed-ahead signal, sir, I think you’ll feel as though you had a live engine under your deck,” Hal assured him. The signal was given, the “Pollard” immediately responding. She cut a wide circle, at good speed, returning to her former position, where the propellers were stopped.
"I'll go with you," said Ned. "As long as we haven't seen any sharks I don't mind." "Nor gigantic starfish, either," added Tom with a smile, and Ned nodded in agreement. "We might try reversing the propellers," suggested the man from the engine room, who had come in with the information about the serpent weed. "The chief didn't like to try that.
Two six-bladed propellers were placed side by side between the two main planes of the machine, which was supported on a triangular wheeled undercarriage and steered by fairly conventional tail planes.
In 1853 the Cunard Co., whose mail-carrying charter had just been renewed, successively added to its assets the Arabia, the Persia, the China, the Scotia, the Java, and the Russia, all ships of top speed and, after the Great Eastern, the biggest ever to plow the seas. So in 1867 this company owned twelve ships, eight with paddle wheels and four with propellers.
"Bless my handkerchief box!" cried Mr. Damon, "what's the matter?" "I don't know," answered Tom. "We seem to be held fast." He further increased the speed of the propellers, and the gas machine was set to make vapor at its fullest capacity, and force it into the bag. Still the craft was held to the earth. "Maybe the gas has no effect in this climate," called Ned. "It can't be that," replied Tom.
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