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Updated: May 23, 2025
This effect is greatly increased when the clearance given to the screw in the dead-wood is too small; for the reduction of the hydrostatic pressure at the stern-post, and the increase of it at the rudder-post, on each passage of the blades, must be followed by concussion.
"Made a new balancer for canoe. "Began to prepare pirogue with marine glue before putting the rudder-post. "Lengthened cross-pieces; completed beam for catamaran, adding details of ironwork. "Demolished old balancer log of canoe, and began to saw it to make a little bridge. "Found that boiling wood was the best plan for bending it; steaming is too troublesome. "Thought much about sails.
A third man, reckless of life, set out in a canoe to blow up a gunboat. He carried with him a fifty-pound keg of gunpowder, which he proposed to strap on the rudder-post of the vessel. He succeeded in getting under the stern of the vessel; but the gleam of his lighted match alarmed the sentry, who fired, hitting him in the shoulder.
These forceps were acted upon by an electric engine of immense power, by which they could be shut, opened, projected, withdrawn, or turned and twisted. The crab darted forward, and in the next instant the great teeth of her pincers were fastened with a tremendous grip upon the rudder and rudder-post of the Scarabaeus.
In the schooner's saloon the atmosphere was peaceful by contrast with the hurly-burly outside; yet even here the steep slant of the deck, the shrill, protesting squeal of working frames and beams, the sullen thud and swish of racing seas along the vessel's skin, kept the storm ever in mind: the dizzy plunge of the bows into great gray seas, with its accompanying rise of the stern and the hollow jar and thump of the rudder-post in its port, kept the interior humming with sound as from a distant organ.
Straight off I heard him sing out "Below there, ahoy! Shake her up, shake her up! Heave on a hundred million billion tons of brimstone!" "Ay-ay, sir!" "Pipe the stabboard watch! All hands on deck!" "Ay-ay, sir!" "Send two hundred thousand million men aloft to shake out royals and sky-scrapers!" "Ay-ay, sir!" "Hand the stuns'ls! Hang out every rag you've got! Clothe her from stem to rudder-post!"
Ice continued to override and press into shore until 5 o'clock; during this time pressure into bay was very heavy; movement of ice in straits causing noise like heavy surf. Ship took ground gently at rudder-post during pressure; bottom under stern shallows very quickly. 10 p.m. Ice-moving out of bay to westward; heavy strain on after moorings and cables, which are cutting the floe."
After being for some three hours entangled, the two ships separated, the Vengeur tearing away the Brunswick’s anchor. As they drifted apart, some well-aimed shots from the Brunswick smashed her enemy’s rudder-post and knocked a large hole in the counter. At this moment the Ramillies, sailing up, opened fire at forty yards’ distance at this particular hole.
The afternoon, through these means, passed away so quickly, that though I was once or twice near the entry-port on the starboard side, close by to which the tailor had measured us, I declare I never once thought of looking out over the waterway to see what had become of father and his wherry; albeit, from the tide having ebbed, my outlook was now much more circumscribed than when I had come afloat in the morning, it seeming but a stone's throw to Point; while on the port side of the ship one could almost have walked ashore, the mud flats of Haslar Creek being out in all their glory, and stretching up almost to the old Saint Vincent's rudder-post!
He quickly unslung it from round his shoulders, and presently had it lashed firmly in position against the curve of the Manco Capac's counter, the lower edge of the bomb being just about a couple of inches clear of the water. He then fixed the fuse alongside the rudder-post, and after listening to hear whether any one was about, he struck a match and applied it to the loose end.
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