After many days of hard sailing against the wind, the feared lee shore, they reach the harbour and are taken aboard the " Surprise " by Captain Pullings barely alive.
22.
Following up on a transformative sailing experience when he was 11, Crosby in 1967 purchased a 59-foot, The Lee Shore, " " Page 43, " and " Carry Me ."
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After waiting two weeks and seeing no other ships, Anson decided to sail for Valdivia, was on the coast and would be too dangerous to find being on a lee shore.
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The incident brought home to George Manby the dangers of a lee shore in a storm and led to his invention of Manby's mortar, a life-line for sailors wrecked close to shore.
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I would not hesitate to claim that if one " Spray " was wrecked on a lee shore it was because her crew needed a few more hours of sailing lessons ."
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During the trial, evidence was given that Litchfield put the ship into a dangerous situation by coming too close to a lee shore-i . e . a shore with the wind blowing on to it.
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One interpretation of the Gaelic word " Bruichladdich " is " stony shore bank ", referring to a post-glacial raised beach, though an alternative, perhaps more pertinent translation may be " rocky lee shore ".
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The song was an early example of Crosby's penchant for using nautical imagery in his songs, a thematic trait he would utilize in future compositions, including " Wooden Ships " and " The Lee Shore ".
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All of Arnold's ships except " Spitfire " were able to sail out into the open lake . " Spitfire " was anchored closest to the lee shore, and was initially unable to set sail against the storm.
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Many losses of sailing ships were caused by sailing, with a following wind, so far into a bay that the ship became trapped upwind of a lee shore, being unable to sail into the wind to leave the bay.
