 | William Clark Russell - 1891 - 298 pàgines
...that the Venerable was so utterly rotten as to be unfit for sea. " We have been sailing," he wrote, " for the last six months with only a sheet of copper between us and eternity." J The sailor in those days had enemies of a deadlier sort to contend with than ever the French or the... | |
 | John Leyland - 1899 - 458 pàgines
...Venerable, Cawsand Bay, i6th December, 1803. .... I came in from sea with orders from the Admiralty to refresh my ship's company, and, poor creatures,...but it deranges me exceedingly to be thus for ever changing.2 CUTHBT. COLLINGWOOD. No. 171 MR. FRERE TO SIR EDWARD PELLEW Madrid, I7th December, 1803.... | |
 | 1899 - 498 pàgines
...Venerable, Cawsand Bay, 16th December, 1803. .... I came in from sea with orders from the Admiralty to refresh my ship's company, and, poor creatures,...but it deranges me exceedingly to be thus for ever changing.2 CUTHBT. COLLINGWOOD. No. 171 MR. FRERE TO SIR EDWARD PELLEW Madrid, 17th December, 1803.... | |
 | Harold Felix Baker Wheeler, Alexander Meyrick Broadley - 1908 - 580 pàgines
...letters, " and the farther we went in the examination, the more important they appeared, until at last it was discovered to be so completely rotten as to be...and eternity. I have written to' Lord St Vincent," he concludes, " to ask him for a sounder ship ; but it deranges me exceedingly to be thus for ever... | |
 | 1926 - 524 pàgines
...ship, and the farther we went in the examination, the more important they appeared, until at last it was discovered to be so completely rotten as to be...have been sailing for the last six months with only a copper sheet between us and eternity.4 Meanwhile, in the timber piles at the dockyards lay the explanation... | |
 | Robert Greenhalgh Albion - 1926 - 526 pàgines
...ship, and the farther we went in the examination, the more important they appeared, until at last it was discovered to be so completely rotten as to be...have been sailing for the last six months with only a copper sheet between us and eternity. 4 Meanwhile, in the timber piles at the dockyards lay the explanation... | |
 | Dudley Pope - 1999 - 384 pàgines
...Excellent, Collingwood wrote from the Channel saying that the Venerable's condition was so bad that "we have been sailing for the last six months with only a sheet of copper between us and eternity." However, much of the rot so frequently discovered in the ships was due to the methods of building and... | |
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We have been sailing for the last six months with only a sheet of copper between us and eternity. 