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... Spithead . ” " I don't see how we can sail through any kind of a head , " said Florence . " Oh , Spithead is not a head , " said Grimkie , " it is a great anchorage ground for the English navy off Portsmouth . We shall see some of the ...
... Spithead . ” " I don't see how we can sail through any kind of a head , " said Florence . " Oh , Spithead is not a head , " said Grimkie , " it is a great anchorage ground for the English navy off Portsmouth . We shall see some of the ...
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... Spithead , where an almost unlimited number of ships may lie at anchor , protected by the Isle of Wight , which , like a natural breakwater , shelters them not only from the seas rolling in from the Atlantic up the channel , but also in ...
... Spithead , where an almost unlimited number of ships may lie at anchor , protected by the Isle of Wight , which , like a natural breakwater , shelters them not only from the seas rolling in from the Atlantic up the channel , but also in ...
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... place the English have at Spithead , There , for an extent of several miles the water is of the right depth , the bottom is of the right consistency , and the whole space is sheltered from the ABOUT HARBORS AND ROADSTEADS . 81.
... place the English have at Spithead , There , for an extent of several miles the water is of the right depth , the bottom is of the right consistency , and the whole space is sheltered from the ABOUT HARBORS AND ROADSTEADS . 81.
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... great natural breakwater , the Isle of Wight , which guards their anchorage ground at Spithead , and the entrance to Portsmouth harbor . CHAPTER IX . CHERBOURG . CHERBOURG , as will be ABOUT HARBORS AND ROADSTEADS . 83.
... great natural breakwater , the Isle of Wight , which guards their anchorage ground at Spithead , and the entrance to Portsmouth harbor . CHAPTER IX . CHERBOURG . CHERBOURG , as will be ABOUT HARBORS AND ROADSTEADS . 83.
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Page 43 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 33 - Lord ivas with me and made all things easy, though my dear friend and I were separated one at one end of the town and the other at the other, and both under locks and bolts ; the said Davis swearing desperately that we should never come out nor see one another again all his time. And yet in two weeks' time he let me out again and her also.
Page 183 - Grimkie said that the best thing they could do would be to go and see the Castle of Mont Orgueil.
Page 193 - Florence established herself upon the sofa, and the two boys in arm-chairs near the fire, each with a large slice of bread and butter in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other, and their tumblers of milk on corners of the table within reach.
Page 69 - There was a large table in the middle of the room, with broad boxes filled with laces upon it, and other boxes in cases about the room.
Page 80 - ... strongly support Senator Mitchell's bill, S. 1639. The establishment of a Board such as is proposed in your bill is vitally necessary in the interest of military and commercial expansion of our national air power. If is an open secret that in the 1930's technological improvements placed German air power far in advance of that of any other nation in the world, and the stern necessity of mastering that power, rather than our own foresight, was the determining factor in World War II. Certainly,...