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They succeeded, however, in discovering a rudder and tiller, appliances not always used in launches, and Paul Blunt shipped them instantly. Around the gunwales of the boat, stanchions, which sustained a slightly-rounded roof, were fitted; a provision that it is usual to make in the packets, in order to, protect the stock they carry against the weather.
I'm pretty well tired. I want to tell you it's hot." Billie was busy with the horses when Don suddenly pointed out toward the American men-of-war. "Look!" he exclaimed. "There's something doing." And sure enough there was. Out from behind two of the largest vessels there suddenly darted a number of launches loaded with blue-jackets and marines.
He launches his ship on the sea and the wind and steam carry it thousands of miles. He speaks his quiet breath into the ear of the phone and electricity carries it in every tone and inflection of personal quality a thousand miles.
Minesweeper Lingfield to take off surplus steaming parties of block ships, which had 100 miles to steam. Eighteen coastal motorboats. Thirty-three motor launches. To bombard vicinity of Zeebrugge Monitors Erebus and Terror. To attend monitors Termagant, Truculent, and Manly. Outer patrol off Zeebrugge Attentive, Scot, Ulleswater, Teazer and Stork.
"There are thirty-five hundred officers, middies and sailors of the American Navy to look after our safety." From where they lay as they hung to the buoys the chums could even see the launches lowered.
While the fog had hidden the harbour he had supposed that not more than half a dozen craft were within sight, but now, between mouth and causeway, fully two dozen sailboats and launches dotted the surface. Over his shoulder was a little hamlet that was doubtless Vineyard Haven. Facing him was a larger community, and he decided that that would be Oak Bluffs.
The guard muffles Tom's feet up in straw, and puts an oat-sack over his knees, but it is not until after breakfast that his tongue is unloosed, and he rubs up his memory, and launches out into a graphic history of all the performances of the Rugby boys on the roads for the last twenty years.
Doors had been cut in the sides of the old steamer, and lighters were moored alongside with launches. When she ran aground these lighters were towed round so as to form a gangway to the shore, and the troops poured down onto them. The Turks were as prepared in this case to repel an attack as at Anzac, and held their fire until the ship was hard and fast.
Stafford," he said, "I am sure you do not realize how much below par you are.... You have been under great strain I know, we all know, how hard you have worked lately. Through you, England launches her ship of war without fear of complications; but it has told on you heavily. Nothing is got without paying for it. You need rest, and you need change." "Quite so rest and change.
Taking to their launches, the Dutchmen now fiercely assailed the other vessels, and in a very short time were masters of twenty-two prizes. It was a difficult task to carry them off at the ebb-tide, and it was not achieved without loss. Hein's own ship, the Amsterdam, grounded and had to be burnt, and another ship by some mischance blew up.
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