The Wasp left portwith 173 men, with which she fought her first action; she had a much smaller number aboard in her second.
Captain Stokes's journal continues on the 19th of May: "We left Port Otway, and as soon as we had cleared its entrance, steered E.
And it was not until the 14th of June that we left Port Jackson.
Having made our final arrangements, we left Port Jackson on the 22nd of December, with a fresh northerly breeze, which continued until the evening of the 24th, when we were abreast of Cape Howe.
We left Port Moresby at half-past seven, reaching the Laroki at half-past eleven.
We left Port Moresby, and arrived at East Cape on a Sunday.
He says there is plain evidence that the rudder was tampered with before ever the ship left port, and that it is a wonder it did not give out ere this.
The rudder, it is like, was tampered with before we left port; but it is certain that a knife was used last night to cut the gear; for the cut was a fresh one.
This was a proof that the time-keeper must have altered its rate since we left Port Jackson; we had then determined it to be losing 4"-77.
This change of its rate, since we left Port Jackson, I had some time suspected, and attributed it to the effects of the weather we had off, and near, Cape Horn.
The two ships which I had collected some accounts of from Rio de Janeiro, he told me, had parted company with him two days after he left Port Jackson; and that he was nineteen weeks and four days on his passage to Batavia.
A few days before we left port I sculled ashore in the yawl, bearing a message from the mate to the captain.
The day before we left port, Captain Lordick called me into the cabin.
The carpenters were yet busily at work on the Essex Junior when we left port; but we had become accustomed to fitting at sea, therefore a little thing like that did not disturb the most nervous.
He had jugged two boys belongin' to our ship, countin' on sellin' 'em to British whalers after the Essex left port.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "left port" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
