 | 1977 - 1412 pages
...still Southerly; arriving about midnight, 17th December, within 40 miles, by dead reckoning, of Tusker light; the wind hauled SE, true, making the Irish...Chronometer time noted; but, having run so far without any observation, it was plain the Latitude by dead reckoning was liable to error, and could not be... | |
 | Thomas H. Sumner - 1845 - 106 pages
...still Southerly; arriving about midnight, 17th December, within 40 miles, by dead reckoning, of Tusker light; the wind hauled SE, true, making the Irish...chronometer time noted ; but, having run so far without any observation, it was plain the latitude by dead reckoning was liable to error, and could not be... | |
 | Thomas H. Sumner - 1845 - 130 pages
...still Southerly; arriving about midnight, 17th December, within 40 miles, by dead reckoning, of Tusker light; the wind hauled SE, true, making the Irish...chronometer time noted ; but, having run so far without any observation, it was plain the latitude by dead reckoning was liable to error, and could not be... | |
 | Squire Thornton Stratford Lecky - 1918 - 966 pages
...ship was then kept close to the wind, and several tacks made to preserve her position as nearly aa possible until daylight, when, nothing being in sight,...about 10 AM an altitude of the sun was observed, and chronometer time noted ; but having run so far without any observation, it was evident that the latitude... | |
 | Gershom Bradford - 1918 - 188 pages
...several tacks made to preserve her position as nearly as possible until daylight, when, nothing being hi sight, she was kept on ENE under short sail, with...about 10 AM an altitude of the sun was observed, and chronometer time noted; but having run so far without any observation, it was evident that the latitude... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1920 - 718 pages
...and the ship stood off the supposed shore to await developments. About 10 o'clock the next morning an altitude of the sun was observed and the chronometer time noted, but, having run so far by dead reckoning, it was plain that the knowledge of the latitude was not sufficiently reliable to... | |
 | Hewitt Schlereth - 2000 - 148 pages
...daylight, when, nothing being in sight, she was kept on ENE under short sail with heavy gales. At about 1 0 AM an altitude of the sun was observed, and the Chronometer time noted; but having run so far without any observation, it was plain the Latitude by dead reckoning was liable to error, and could not be... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 2002 - 924 pages
...daylight; when nothing being in sight, she was kept on ENE under short sail, with heavy gales; at about 1 0 AM an altitude of the Sun was observed, and the Chronometer time noted; but, having run so far without any observation, it was plain the Latitude by dead reckoning was liable to error, and could not be... | |
 | Michel Vanvaerenbergh, Peter Ifland - 2003 - 236 pages
...nothing being. in sight, she was kept on ENE under short sail, with heavy gales; at about 10 A. M¿ an altitude of the sun was observed, and the Chronometer time noted; but, having run so far without any observation, it was plain the Latitude by dead reckoning was liable to error, and could not be... | |
 | Brian Lasater - 2008 - 600 pages
...wind, and several checks were made to preserve her position as nearly as possible until daylight;... she was kept on ENE under short sail, with heavy gales;...Chronometer time noted; but, having run so far without any observation, it was plain the Latitude by dead reckoning was liable to error... Using... this Latitude,... | |
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Tusker light; the wind hauled SE, true, making the Irish coast a lee shore; the ship was then kept close to the wind, and several tacks made to preserve her position as nearly as possible until daylight; when nothing being in sight, she was kept on ENE... 