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The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht

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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882

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The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht

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Author : W. Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher: General Books
Release Date : 2009-08

The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht written by W. Clark Russell and has been published by General Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with categories.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1896 Excerpt: ... We went round the base of the hill, and put the body down upon some grass at the margin of a stretch of deep and impervious bush, resembling the growths in Australia in respect of density, the greater portion of which was as high as my waist, though here and there it stood above my head. We laid the body down here, I say, and Hunter went back for the jacket, with which we covered the face, placing two stones upon the arms, to prevent the jacket from blowing away; and, this done, I ascended the bit of a hill, to look for Norie and Tripshore. I saw them, when I had mounted a few feet, about a quarter of a mile distant, coming our way very quickly, and skirting the shrubbery, that extended, with a very clean, well-defined edge, athwart the island, as far as the horse-limb curve of land, as though human hands had planted it. I shouted to them, and Tripshore waved his hand, and when they were within hearing distance the man holloaed out, "We have found water, sir I" This was a joyful piece of news. It made my heart flutter, and filled me with as deep a transport as even the intelligence that help was coming could have done. "They have found water!" I bawled to Hunter, who stood at some distance from me. He cried back, "Thanks to the Lord for it, sir! We should all have been mad for a drink presently." I then joined him, and whilst we stood waiting for the others, I asked him, having had no opportunity to do so before, how he had managed to save his life, and what had become of the other men. His story was very short and simple. When the yacht struck, all of the crew who were below rushed on deck. Pitch-dark as it was, a number of men groped their way to what I have already called the long-boat. They managed to get her over, but how he could not explain, beyond i...

The Lady Maud

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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-01-23

The Lady Maud written by William Clark Russell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with Fiction categories.

Excerpt from The "Lady Maud" Schooner Yacht Preparing for a voyage ten times as long would have cost me small trouble. A few hours served to complete my arrange ments, and punctually on the appointed day I was at South ampton, waiting for the arrival of the Lady Maud's boat to carry me aboard of her. I was never at that town before, nor have I visited it since and nothing of it remains in my mind but a clear image of the stretch of beautiful sparkling water, with a vision of the Isle of Wight in the southward, and of green shores opposite melting upon the gleaming breast of the sea as they trended toward the Solent. Many yachts and other vessels were riding at anchor, and many more under way, with their white canvas ﬂashing softly in the brilliant sunshine. A pleasant breeze blew from the northeast, but the sky was quite cloudless, a deep, darkly pure blue, like the heavens of the South Pacific. I was anxious to see the vessel that was to be my home for some months, but none of the watermen I asked could tell me which was she. However, I had not long to wait, for whilst I stood admiring a very handsome, heavily sparred yawl, anchored within musket-shot of the pier, a boat pulling six oars shot from under her stern, clearly from one of the yachts lying beyond, and headed directly for the spot I occupied. The men rowed with fine precision, their oars ﬂashed like glass, and the froth twinkled frostily at the stem. Before she was alongside I read the name Lady Maud on the breast of the cockswain's jersey, and went to meet him as he jumped ashore. He had been one of the lane's men, and knew me; and in a few minutes my luggage was brought from the hotel and bundled into the boat. The moment we cleared the stern of the yawl, the cockswain, lady pointed to a large schooner that lay a few fathoms astern of a small vessel similarly rigged, said that that was the Lady Maud. I looked at her eagerly, but the first impression was disappoint ing. She had a straight stem like a cutter's, an unusual thing in a craft of her rig and as her copper came high, starting at the bows a very few inches under the hawse-pipes, she had the look of a revenue boat about the hull. As we approached, however, some good features began to exhibit themselves. She was rather blufi' about the forecastle rail, but rapidly fined down to the water's edge, and was like a knife at that point. Her run was beautiful, and a decided spring forward gave her a defiant posture upon the water. She was large for her class, nearly two hundred tons by Lloyd's measurement. Her spars were the handsomest sticks I had ever seen, and the soaring maintopmast, surmounted by an angular red ﬂag that blew up ward like a tongue of ﬂame against the lovely sky, made the eye giddy that followed it from the low level of a boat. Unlike any of the other yachts about, she carried a topsail and top gallant yard: and, judging from the height of the foreyard from the deck, I reckoned that if Sir Mordaunt Brookes carried a square-sail, it should be big enough to hold a gale of wind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Lady Maud

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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-09-25

The Lady Maud written by William Clark Russell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-25 with Shipwrecks categories.

As the days of sail begin to give way to those of steam, Sir Mordaunt Brookes has built a boat. The Lady Maud is a gleaming thing, a schooner yacht, sumptuously fitted out with shining white decks and all the accessories a Victorian gentleman could require. All of this work of building has been for one purpose: a sea journey across the Atlantic, from Southampton all the way to the West Indies, to benefit the ailing health of his demanding and nervous wife, Lady Agnes. He has a small crew. He has a doctor, Norie, to administer to Agnes' needs. His beautiful young niece will also come along, to keep her company. But he has no-one outside the crew with any seafaring knowledge. Then he remembers Edmund Walton, a true friend and former sailor who has been away from the sea for ten years, who happily agrees to come on the journey, his heart hungering for life on the waves. Soon after leaving the Solent, they happen upon an adventure: a lost pleasure-boater in the English Channel needs their help to return to land. Walton wonders if this will set the tone for the rest of the trip, and also begins to detect, with his sharp sailor's eye, that all is not right with Purchase, the Lady Maud's captain. Has Sir Mordaunt selected wisely? Way out in the wild swells of the mid-Atlantic a very different challenge meets them. The Wanderer, a sailing ship, has been torn to shreds in a howling gale. All that is left is a slowly sinking hulk with four poor souls clinging onto it for dear life. With the seas pounding and danger at every turn, Walton and several of the crew risk their lives to rescue them. Have they now finally had their share of adventures? Will the rest of the journey leave them peacefully making headwind? Has Purchase made the right calculation of their position in this roaring weather? One night, Walton wakes up to a terrific grinding bump and is thrown into the corner of his cabin, the floor almost vertical. Now begins a yet more serious test; this elegant cruise has suddenly become a desperate struggle for survival... W. Clark Russell's evocative prose, laden with the colours and moods of the sea and sky, unfolds a tale of tragedy with seemingly effortless control; its lucid and realistic shades make for one of the Victorian era's finest novels of shipwreck.

The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht

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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht

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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1882

The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht

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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-02-22

The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht written by William Clark Russell and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

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The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht

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Author : William Clark Russell
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Release Date : 1883

The Lady Maud

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Author : W. Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Release Date : 2017-10-03

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The Lady Maud Schooner Yacht

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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

The Lady Maud

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