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tiftftfc * i § M & \ Hto { & f It is + 60 late to do it , everi if he had tinie . As to tite oAbfe ^ erB b * ing choaked up with all starts of lumber ; he know s that h » has got cables on board , which is a satisfactory thing * to his mitod ) during the voyage ; and as to being wrecked , tfyat is a very unLjl ^ ly thing to happen to a man of his knowledge and experience I
Grant therefore a good spanking gale of winx } , a foggy night , or a nail accidentally jammed under the compass-box , puzzling his faithful B # &dte } with ail those ills that ships , of whatever tonnage , " are air to / ' and wrecked he is , with all on board ; crew , cargo , passengers , anchors * cables , pretty masts , knowledge , experience , and economy ^ inclusive .
Something should be done to prevent this , or at least to render it much less frequent . And it oug * ht to be done as soon as possible . Falhmrus seems convinced that by a timely use of their anchors and cables , added to the cutting away of the masts , the Clarendon , which was lost , with nearly every soul on board , at the back of the Isle of
Wight , and the Duke of Marlborough , in Torbay , might have been saved , "withtnit the loss of life or property (?) We think it very probable in fiatist cases * The other correspondent , J . H ., suggests that "it would be tifteful to insert , in all policies of insurance , a clause providing that aft captains should bend their cables , and have the anchors clear ,
iminediafcel y they come on soundings . " He further says , " from the experienc # of twenty-live years at sea , I would recommend that tljte best bower chain * should be 180 fathoms , as also that a few small hatchets ( say from one to three dozen , according- to the size of the ship ) should be kepi in a handy place on the quarter deck , or in the cabin , always in
good order for cutting away ; as it generally happens that when a necessity arrives the things most wanted are never to be found . I feel quite confident that any seaman of like experience will agree with me when I say , tb # t with a chain of that length , and the ma * t cut by the boardy a vessel will ride out any gale that blows upon our coast , even in thirty fattaw water . "
Perhaps a seaman of different experience , though of ah equal number pf years' service , might not agree that this could be subject to no ex ££ ption 3 ; but that J , H . is right enough in the main , nobody , we shoujbj think , would gainsay . Many other valuable suggestions are offejqd by both these correspondents in the Constitutional of October SOtlj , We would beg to add something which seems to us of importance towards the prevention of many disastrous shipwrecks . We thiuJk it would be 3 . great means of preserving life and property , and
preyppting considerable loss to underwriters , as well as the donlestic misery , peri l lasting , of thousands of individuals , relatives and others , many of whom depend for existence on the crews and passengers of vea-Bels ^ Trif A deQdand proportionate , and perhaps equal , to the value of new ¦ - ' t -i———¦ "" '" : ' " ~* ¦ ' ¦ ———— ¦— - — - —¦
? Chtin eablef are undoubtedly preferable , but not abaolutdy neoeiwy for ail ? «*•*!* irfeere proper pretaut font are tiled * I w * s one * in Itjga Bajri it bl * w > m httrrictAa . W * -baU foui aitehora down—a sheet anchQr , )) Mt pQWt ^ i ^ i ditt ^ aa < J ouir ^ ir * mtwhiOf i all ropa Qablea . She vm 200 tout . A vessel of ^ auai aipe , in p | teh | p ^ pH # r ^< i Qtp 9 P 4 of her keal , both fo r * and aft . The gate ltfated fcifr day * , a ^ d % rode u ^ o «» t . We ha 4 down top . gallant yarda and nmara , topraa * t « lowemd , ¦ fid t&fluAf turdt stored mre And aft on th « top « . Ttitrs w * m no n ** & for cutting » # my . Otilf thi « e pat of t # fnty weal i * hor «« lY ^ / o ugUi tp b * r # « ut tway , but did not .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 714, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/62/
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