A little later the submarine flotilla off the Irish coast was strengthened, and a regular patrol instituted near the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland.
In the same month there were 2,159 cross-Channel sailings and ten losses, nine of these vessels being unescorted.
In the summer of 1917 four such hunting flotillas were busy in the Channel; the work of one of these I have described already, and they certainly contributed towards making the Channel an uneasy place for submarine operations.
The destroyers on the East Coast and in the Portsmouth Command were already inadequate to afford proper protection to the trade and the cross-Channel communications, as evidenced by our losses.
All that could be effected in this direction was done, though at the expense of some of the Channel escorts.
At length got to thechannel formed by the meeting of the Petite Riviere and the Riviere a Boete.
Quebic 135 "Lake Champlain (besides being the only Channel by which the English can possibly invade Canada from their frontiers) is the only one by which they can be Invaded from thence, for through the whole Extent of the South Bank of S^t.
What was "A Channel Passage" thus but a flourish marked with the sign of all his flourishes, that of being a success and having fruition?
No one but the pirate himself knows the route which he took and the channel which he followed to Maluco; and therefore no efforts were made to check him.
The car body end-sill channel is faced with a white-oak filler, mortised to receive the car body end-posts and braced at each end by gusset plates.
As the real channel is approached, the bridge stops abruptly, and a series of pontoon-like barges takes the place of it.
A deep, green, rapid river filled the whole of the narrow invert, and this channel was thickly cumbered by a selection of some of the very largest boulders that we have ever seen.
Beyond again, to the low horizon, stretches the Channel sea.
Looking at the peaceful, ethereally lovely landscape, set in such close proximity and notable contrast to the unrest of that historic highway of the nations, the Channel sea, he felt small and lonely, childishly diffident and weak.
See the heavenly tints with which our good dirty useful old Channel has adorned itself.
By Terschelling the channel from the Zuyder Zee to the North Sea is marked out like a narrow strait with black and red buoys; and even in that calm weather there were foaming breakers the whole way close to the ship on either side.
Guernsey is the second in size of the four Channel Isles, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, which one used to repeat with such gusto in one's schoolboy days.
The Channel Isles are the last remnant of our French possessions.
Or rather, as the Islanders might claim--and as it is reported some do--England belongs by right of conquest to the Channel Isles.
So he thought he would keep mid-channel in going into the Loch!
The wind from the Kingairloch shores still carries us on; and Inversanda swells the breeze; soon we shall be running into that wide channel that leads up to the beautiful Loch Leven.
A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.
An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
A channel or runner which receives the rows of molds in the pig bed.
Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods.
A wet place; a swale; a side channel or inlet from a river.
Warm household lights are shining out His rugged channel o'er.
Across the Bristol Channel from Wales is the Devonian range.
But genuine living faith it must be: there must be the real opening up of the soul to the Spirit of the living God, so that the man's nature becomes a channel through which unobstructed the grace and power of God shall flow.
The fleet making no attempt to come in, the channel batteries took no part in the bombardment of Sumter.
The channel was open, the guns were all gone from the forts on Cole's and Battery islands, and the gunboats threw their 11-inch shells with perfect impunity on the right and left as they ran up the river.
To obstruct 2,000 yards of channel (and this with relation to the forts, Sumter and Moultrie, is decided upon as the most feasible) looks almost like an impossibility.
Following this refusal, the Ironsides and five monitors came up the channel and opened fire upon Sumter and the Sullivan's island batteries.
The facts had been slowly, quietly gathered, one by one, like pebbles from the empty channel of a brook.
The centre of each alley is a broken channel with a broken pavement on each side.
At the narrowest part of its channel the river is crossed by a twig bridge wide enough for laden animals, supported on the left bank by some tree-stems kept steady by a mass of stones.
The stream is noisy, and a rude flour mill above has the power, which it has exercised, of turning it into another channel for irrigation purposes.
The channel is a coarse sand, with here and there masses of sheet rock and patches of thin vegetation.
You have not spread it, there can no imputation of vanity fall to your share, and it cannot come out more to your honor than through such a channel as Mrs. Thrale.
Perhaps the Channel ports at Ostend and Zeebrugge were the prize we hoped to gain.
A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook.
The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
Our yachting afforded us an infinite variety of experience in a very short time; we had a taste of the British Channel as soon as we were clear of the end of the wharf.
The cliffs about Drake's Bay resemble in height and color, those of Great Britain in the English Channel at Brighton and Dover; therefore it seems quite natural that Sir Francis should have called the land New Albion.
Through what channel had she become aware of my acquaintance with the man now dead?
Tramu called and saw me twice, evidently astounded at the channel of escape which Shaw had so cunningly prepared.
Sweeping around a bend, we saw that a great tree had been undermined by the water, and had fallen out over the stream so that two thirds of the narrow channelwas completely blocked.
I therefore contracted with him, for five hundred dollars, to cut a channel through the ice to Indian Point.
We managed to pass through these rapids successfully, but immediately below them we saw that the stream divided into two parts, the channel to the left appearing to be the better one.
Columbus, when he first entered, believed he was on an ocean channel dividing two islands.
During gales from that direction it becomes exceedingly uncomfortable, and the narrow entrance channel quite dangerous.
The island is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the north, the Mona Channel on the east, the Caribbean Sea on the south, and the Windward Passage on the west.
The great expanse of water, fifteen miles in width, between this channel and the south shore of the Bay is so dotted with shoals as to be absolutely impassable.
