Two men, however, being intoxicated, fell off the hawsers into the water, and perished.
The ends of two additional hawsers were got on shore, and Sir Edward contrived cradles, to be slung upon them, with travelling ropes to pass forward and backward between the ship and the beach.
Regarding the first-mentioned method, a small vessel can be lifted by passing hawsers beneath her and securing the ends to salvage craft on the surface overhead.
The hawsersbeing hauled taut at low tide, the vessel will lift off the bottom when the rise of tide lifts the salvage craft, and can then be {46} transported bodily elsewhere.
We presently carried out two kedge-anchors, with hawsers to each; these found ground a little without the bower, but in what depth we never knew.
We landed under the battery, and having first secured our beat without noise, we crept softly up to where the end of the hawsers lay by the side of the guns, to which we instantly made them fast.
H, H, are two of the three great bobbins or reels round which the three secondary strands or small hawsers are wound.
Then while the two boats bumped and struggled to turn their free ends into the current, the other Indians, with the skill of long experience, swiftly transferredhawsers from the free ends of the scows to other trees.
Old Moosetooth grunted a command and the men ran to the hawsers holding the scows against the current.
In vain the boats attempted to carry the hawsers to the barque.
The two cutters were accordingly lowered to takehawsers to the barque.
In the canoe which visited the Alceste, there came two men, who had not been seen before; they remained but a short time, which was spent in examining the hawsers and the mode of warping the ship.
It was found necessary to-day to move the frigate still farther in, and four or five hawsers were laid out for the purpose of warping her a-head.
One of the hawsers had slipped, and the work of six long hours was wasted.
By the light of several lanterns the slack of the hawsers was taken in and the two canoes pinned down so far as the united efforts of all hands would permit.
At dead low water all the slack of the four hawsers was taken in, and once more came a tedious wait for the rising tide.
We lost no time in sending hawsers on board, but it was not until the third day that we were successful in our efforts to haul her off.
The swell and the weight of our hawsers acting on the necessarily short cables of the "Champlain" caused that vessel to drag and take the ground on our port quarter.
I had hardly been at work at this for more than four or five minutes before the vessel suddenly gave a lurch, settled a little deeper at the stern, and moved away from the edge of the ice, until the hawsers became taut.
The way on her was so strong that one of the bow hawsers parted, but otherwise the launch went so smoothly that no ship-builder could have wished it better.
I replied, touching my cap, and away I scrambled down into the launch, where I found the kedge already stowed, with hawsers coiled down on top of it until the boat's stern was barely a couple of inches out of water.
A favourable breeze springing up, the ships stood on among the detached floes, through which they were warped by securing ice-anchors with hawsers to the more solid pieces ahead.
Kedge anchors and hawsers were immediately carried out, which would have availed but little had not the tide turned, and a light breeze coming off shore, both vessels making sail, got safely to sea.
The windlass clanked its hardest, wire hawsers splashed, and the Cumbria had swung across to the opposite forest when the big anchor rose to her bows.
I have even heard of a gunboat's launch carrying out their hawsers and anchors.
Cochrane had all the hawsers brought up, and with these got up preventer stays, and then every sail was spread.
Had it not been for the hawsers with which we had stayed the masts, everything must have gone out of her as we wore round, rolling in the trough of the sea.
Accordingly wire hawsers were lowered from the two bow-hawser pipes, and by dint of careful manoeuvring the shackles were engaged.
When these took the weight of the cutter the wire hawsers were unshackled and the two men clambered back to the airship, which had now risen to nearly a thousand feet.
Once, twice, and again the hawsers twanged, and now they twanged at will, for with such a stream running it was excusable for even such a worthy officer as Jerry Rolfe to put something down to natural causes.
Both men ran to the lines, Rolfe forward, Blunt aft, and now the mystery of those twanging hawsers was clear.
These he took up on deck, and Joe knew he was bending them on to the hawsers to make them still longer.
Again, she would fetch up taut on her hawsers so suddenly and so fiercely as to reel from the shock and to groan and protest through every timber.
On sounding astern of the Ship it was found that we had run a considerable distance over a Shoal and before we could carry an anchor out into water sufficiently deep we veer'd away four Hawsers on end.
Accordingly Blocks were prepared and laid down, the Guns and all the Lumber were sent on shore together with Hawsers & Cables, and some few casks of Provisions and part of the Water in the Forehold was started.
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