... broken-up pack which the old voyagers, with their sailing vessels, necessarily deemed impassable. At the same time there is a limit to the risks which are advisable to be run ; no ship has been built which could withstand a real nip between two pieces... The Official Report of the Recent Arctic Expedition - Seite 30von Great Britain. Admiralty - 1876 - 96 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1877 - 634 Seiten
...built which could withstand a real nip between two pieces of heavy ice. On the afternoon of August 31, shortly after the ship was secured in her former position...Lincoln Bay, the wind gradually freshened from the south-west, blowing slightly off the land, accompanied with a snowstorm and a threatening appearance... | |
| George Strong Nares - 1878 - 456 Seiten
...to be run ; no ship has been built which could withstand a real nip between two pieces of heavy ice. Shortly after the ship was secured in her former position...weather. So far as we could distinguish through the snow and mist, the main pack was driven by the gale to the northward up the channel; but knowing that it... | |
| George Strong Nares - 1878 - 472 Seiten
...to be run ; no ship has been built which could withstand a real nip between two pieces of heavy ice. Shortly after the ship was secured in her former position...the wind gradually freshened from the SW, blowing slight ly off the land ; accompanied with a snowstorm and a threatening appearance of the weather.... | |
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