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Chapter 5 - This Voyage -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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the immense volume of water. The wind sometimes is directly opposite to the current, and drives the water back on the surface, but the under current beneath the surface and the wind's power flows on.

Be not deceived with the appearance of the surface.
I was trolling my hoop round the deck of the Princess Charlotte, a 120-gun ship in Portsmouth Harbour, when the sound of some one singing arrested my attention, and running to the entering port, I saw the Tyne frigate sailing

 
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into the harbour under topsails, and it man in the chains heaving the lead. That instant he threw it into the sea, and cried out in a musical tone, " By the deep nine;" that is, nine fathoms (fifty-four feet) of water. Hauling up the lead he threw it again, and cried out, "Quarter less seven;" that was twelve feet six inches less water. The order was immediately given, "Let go the anchor," stopping the ship and furling the sails. Had they proceeded any further they would have risked running aground.

It is very interesting in reading of Paul's shipwreck of sounding, casting out the anchors, and "wishing for day." Essential to know how we are sailing. Many a fine ship has been lost through neglecting to take the soundings, and many a man has been ruined through neglecting this important duty, and thinking he was all right, has run ashore when he least expected it; and so in the heavenly voyage" continual soundings" are necessary to know "All's well."

What a terrible thing is a shipwreck! And how

© Peter Smith 2009