Sabine completed his final set of observations, and " Griper " set sail for England on the 13th, though gales and unfavourable winds kept her embayed until 3 December, when she finally gained the open sea.
22.
On 21 October 1867, the occasion of her first launch, the lifeboat crew saved three lives from the wreck of the London barque " Achilles ", which became embayed in the Mounts Bay before grounding at Polurrian.
23.
The sailing ships, unsailable, their gear, masts and sails often already damaged or lost overboard, and the crew exhausted through hours of attempting to tack away from the cliffs, became embayed and powerless to escape the clutches of the rocks.
24.
Towards the close of the long French war, Paget, while cruising in the " Endymion " on the coast of Spain, sighted a French ship-of-the-line in imminent danger, embayed among rocks upon a lee shore, bowsprit and foremast gone, and riding by a stream cable, her only remaining one.
