22 June 2018
Wednesday 22nd October 1828 – weighed anchor from Rio at 3 oClock A.M. and were towed out of the harbour by boats, day fine and calm nearly […]
22 June 2018
Tuesday 7 October 1828 – got up at 6 oClock expecting to see land, but a thick mist entirely precluded our seeing any thing beyond a […]
22 June 2018
Character of Monseigneur Vidigall As we are in daily expectation of arriving at the point of our destination – and as I think it best now […]
22 June 2018
Friday 26th – land in sight when I went upon deck at 8 oClock. We sailed along the shore all [night] came to anchor at 4 oClock […]
22 June 2018
Saturday 20 Sept.r – exactly four weeks after quitting Teneriffe, we have reached Pernambuco. At 6 oClock this morning I got up and had a good view […]
22 June 2018
Monday 15 Sept.r 1828 – crossed the Equator at 7 oClock this morning, when our ship was hailed by old Neptune, the monarch of the deep – […]
21 June 2018
BRITISH yachting, properly so called, dates from the Restoration, and is of Dutch parentage. There is a tendency to try to find the origin of the […]
21 June 2018
Chapter 1 covers the developments of yachting from an early period with many interesting medieval references to rigs and the development of for-and-aft rigs. The sections […]
21 June 2018
British Yachts and Yachtsmen contains an appendix on yacht clubs, presented here as a separate section. The order is not alphabetical and may, or may not, […]
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22 June 2018
Wednesday 22nd October 1828 – weighed anchor from Rio at 3 oClock A.M. and were towed out of the harbour by boats, day fine and calm nearly […]
22 June 2018
Tuesday 7 October 1828 – got up at 6 oClock expecting to see land, but a thick mist entirely precluded our seeing any thing beyond a […]
22 June 2018
Character of Monseigneur Vidigall As we are in daily expectation of arriving at the point of our destination – and as I think it best now […]
22 June 2018
Friday 26th – land in sight when I went upon deck at 8 oClock. We sailed along the shore all [night] came to anchor at 4 oClock […]
22 June 2018
Saturday 20 Sept.r – exactly four weeks after quitting Teneriffe, we have reached Pernambuco. At 6 oClock this morning I got up and had a good view […]
22 June 2018
Monday 15 Sept.r 1828 – crossed the Equator at 7 oClock this morning, when our ship was hailed by old Neptune, the monarch of the deep – […]
21 June 2018
BRITISH yachting, properly so called, dates from the Restoration, and is of Dutch parentage. There is a tendency to try to find the origin of the […]
21 June 2018
Chapter 1 covers the developments of yachting from an early period with many interesting medieval references to rigs and the development of for-and-aft rigs. The sections […]
21 June 2018
British Yachts and Yachtsmen contains an appendix on yacht clubs, presented here as a separate section. The order is not alphabetical and may, or may not, […]