 | William Reid - Navigation - 1838 - 470 pages
...falls into the right-hand semicircle, would receive the wind at first ahout east hy north ; hut it would soon veer to east, as the storm passes onwards....semicircle, would at first receive the wind at north-east ; hut with this latter ship, instead of veering towards east, it would veer towards north. The explanation... | |
 | sir William Reid - 1838 - 474 pages
...falls into the right-hand semicircle, would receive the wind at first ahout east hy north ; hut it would soon veer to east, as the storm passes onwards....semicircle, would at first receive the wind at north-east ; hut with this latter ship, instead of veering towards east, it would veer towards north. The explanation... | |
 | 1839 - 586 pages
...about east by north ; but it would soon veer to the east, as the storm passes onvrards.|The shipwhich falls into the left-hand semicircle, would at first...veer towards north. The explanation of the rule will best be made out by attentively inspecting figures 4 and 5. In both, the Mirk ships are on the proper... | |
 | Books - 1839 - 560 pages
...but it would soon veer to east, as the storm passed onwards. The ship which falls into the left hand semicircle, would at first receive the wind at north-east,...with this latter ship, instead of veering towards the east, it would veer towards the north."—p. 425. The Colonel might have added in further illustration... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1839 - 484 pages
...but it would soon veer to east, as the storm passed onwards. The ship which falls into the left hand semicircle, would at first receive the wind at north-east,...with this latter ship, instead of veering towards the east, it would veer towards the north. "—p. 425. The Colonel might have added in further illustration... | |
 | William Reid - Hurricanes - 1846 - 626 pages
...which falls into the left-hand semicircle, would receive the wind at first about east by north ; but it would soon veer to east, as the storm passes onwards....veering towards east, it would veer towards north. RULE FOR LAYING SHIPS TO IN HURRICANES. 531 Proper North, and Wind Bant. CHAP. XII. f! Ship o» Larboard... | |
 | Henry Piddington - Marine meteorology - 1848 - 432 pages
...to. The ship which falls into the left hand half of the storm would receive the wind at first at NK, but with this latter ship instead of veering towards East, it would veer towards North. If Larboard Ship on Tack. Ship on Starboard Tack. Proper North, and Wind East. Ship on Starboard Tack.... | |
 | William Reid - Hurricanes - 1849 - 472 pages
...which falls into the righthand semicircle, would receive the wind at first about east-by-north ; but it would soon veer to east, as the storm passes onwards....left-hand semicircle, would at first receive the wind at CHAP. III. Black ships come up. ships fell off. north-east ; but with this latter ship, instead of... | |
 | William Reid - Hurricanes - 1849 - 454 pages
...would at first receive the wind at CHAP. north-east ; but with this latter ship, instead of veering m' towards east, it would veer towards north. The explanation of the rule will best be made out by attentively inspecting the two figures. In both, the black ships are on the tacks... | |
 | William Reid - Meteorology - 1850 - 586 pages
...which falls into the lefthand semicircle would receive the wind at first about east by north ; but it would soon veer to east, as the storm passes onwards....veer towards north. The explanation of the rule will best be made out by attentively inspecting the two figures. In both, the black ships are on the proper... | |
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J^C • hand semicircle would receive the wind at first about east by north ; but it would soon veer to east, as the storm passes onwards. The ship which falls into the left-hand semicircle would at first receive the wind at north-east; but with this... 
