 ... this gallant officer, after having nobly pursued, for the preservation of others, a course of exertion that has been rarely equalled either in its duration or difficulty, at last felt it right to provide for his own safety, by laying hold on the topping-lift,...  The London Magazine - Page 5261825Full view - About this book
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...topping-lift, or rope that connects the driver boom with the mizen-top, and thereby getting over the heads ef the infatuated men who occupied the boom, unable to...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water. The means of escape, however, did not cease to be presented to the unfortunate individuals above referred... | |
 | Chronicles of the sea - 1838 - 488 pages
...provide for his own safety, by laying hold of the topping-lift, or rope that connects the driver-boom with the mizen-top ; and thereby getting over the...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water, when he was picked up by the boat, and the whole party got safely on board the Cambria. Thus perished... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...safety, by laying hold on the topping-lift, or rope that connects the driver-boom with the mizzen-top,and thereby getting over the heads of the infatuated men,...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water. The means of escape, however, did not cease to be presented to the unfortunate individuals above referred... | |
 | 1844 - 440 pages
...provide for his own safety, by laying hold on the topping lift, or rope that connects the driver-boom with the mizen-top ; and thereby getting over the...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water. LOSS OF THE GROSVENOS INDIAMAN. masts were then ordered to be cut away, wit feet, and as the ship lay... | |
 | Dangers - 1848 - 452 pages
...provide for his own safety, by laying hold on the toppinglift, or rope that connects the driver-boom with the mizen-top, and thereby getting over the heads...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water. The means of escape, however, did not ceat<e to be presented to the unfortunate individuals above referred... | |
 | 1854 - 504 pages
...provide for his own safety, by laying hold on the topping lift, or rope that connects the driverboom with the mizen-top, and thereby getting over the heads...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water. PROPERTIES OF THE SEA, &c. THE sea seems not less necessary to the existence of man himself, than the... | |
 | 1876 - 504 pages
...provide for his own safety, by laying hold on the topping lift, or rope that connects the driverboom with the mizen-top, and thereby getting over the heads...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water. PROPERTIES OF THE SEA, &c. THE sea seems not less necessary to the existence of man himself, than the... | |
 | sir Duncan Macgregor - 1880 - 108 pages
...officer, after having nobly pursued, for the preservation of others, a course of exertion that lias been rarely equalled either in its duration or difficulty,...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water. The means of escape, however, did not cease to be presented to the unfortunate individuals above referred... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 pages
...boat by " laying hold of the topping-lift, or rope that connects the driver-boom with the mizen-top, thereby getting over the heads of the infatuated men...forward, and ultimately dropping himself into the water." One of the boats persevered in keeping its station under the Kent's stern, until the flames were bursting... | |
 | Henry Stewart (M.A.) - 1883 - 500 pages
...into which they had fallen. So he laid hold of the topping-lift, and thereby got over the heads of the men who occupied the boom, unable to go either backward or forward, and, dropping into the water, was picked up by the boat, in which the three remaining officers had already... | |
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