In most cases arising in sailing through fogs, it would be enough for the captain or pilot to be sure of the exact direction of a fog horn, whistling buoy, or steam whistle; and for this a single aural observation suffices.
Uncertain that the pilotwould see Pop's Worry, she focused the beam of her flashlight high on the mainsail.
His eyes were fixed on the opposite shore, at a point amid the trees where the pilot of the motorboat had crawled from the water.
The pilot brought the metal plate--a flattened tin dish--with him, and also two turtles which had been caught on the island.
Though we wished for a strong breeze to give a plausibility to our being wrecked, we did not bargain for quite so much wind as we had, and we were fortunate in having so good a pilot as the Greek.
I have served on board on the L-- as a midshipman, and have since, on several occasions, acted as pilot and interpreter.
A Greek pilot had been taken on board on the Zone's first entering the Archipelago.
In a few minutes the little craft was alongside a ledge of rock that projected as a sort of forehead from the top of a perpendicular short front, and the pilot brought her to a full stop.
All were assembled at the pilot house when he gave his recital.
Another boy could be seen in the pilot seat of the smaller craft.
Aren't you a white cruiser with awning mid and aft, and pilot house on bridge deck?
He and Bud had followed into the pilot house soon after Cub and his father repaired to that place.
There was a speaking tube communicating between the pilot house and the cabin and through this Cub kept his boy friends acquainted with the progress of the search.
A quantity of oil for the crew and pilot is referred to, and oxen were also slaughtered, apparently as a propitiatory sacrifice on the completion of the vessel.
The ceremonies were not by any means finished, however, for the boatman or pilot had to take him to the place of lustration to be cleansed, and for the skin, with which he seems to have been covered, to fall off.
Again the maritime nation is in evidence, where the consigning of the ship into the care of a pilot is referred to.
At any rate, they were certainly not trying to pilot me into a clear channel.
After tying up to an oar, he very courteously undertook to pilot me to the town through the half-overflowed willow and alder flats.
Captain Scraggs fled, cursing, and sought solace in the pilot house.
The Squarehead stationed himself at the bitts with a lantern and Mr. Gibney hastened to the pilot house and took his place at the wheel.
Captain Scraggs, hurled forcibly backward, bumped into the pilot house, but lost none of his enthusiasm.
The Mexican obeyed and Captain Scraggs went up in the pilot house and laid the terribly battered Maggie alongside the schooner.
Git out o' my pilot house an' aft where the police can find you when they come lookin' for you," he screeched.
McGuffey roared and sprang at the skipper, who leaped nimbly up the little ladder to the top of the pilot house and stood prepared to kick Mr. McGuffey in the face should that worthy venture up after him.
When The Squarehead came into the pilot house presently and grinned at him, Mr. Gibney handed Neils an electric torch.
Following a bloody battle in the pilot house, he subdued the mate; following his victory he was still war mad, so he went to the engine-room hatch and abused the engineer.
Mr. Gibney stuck his ingenious head out of the pilot house and listened, but no answering echo reached his ears.
Three more shots from the long gun missed them, but the fourth carried away the cabin, leaving the wreck of the pilot house, with the helmsman unscathed, sticking up like a sore thumb.
They were still seated on the stern bitts as the Maggie came abreast the Point Montara fog signal station, when Mr. Gibney observed a long telescope poking out the side window of the pilot house.
The banks look low, but when the pilot takes us close in to shore, we see that it is the size of the river which has cheated our eyes, and the cliffs that seemed so low-lying will measure two hundred feet or over.
The English ships had separated, and on board the flag-ship nothing could now be seen or heard of the remainder of the squadron, each pilot having taken the direction in which he personally considered the enemy to be lying.
Holfax says he can take the leading dog team, and, attaching the other dogs to the head sled, he can pilot them all.
It may be that the admiral counted upon the vessels being so closed up that the flag-ship would practically serve as the pilot for all.
I had directed a trumpet fixed from the mizzen-top to the wheel on board this ship, as I intended the pilot to take his station in the top, so that he might see over the fog, or smoke, as the case might be.
The flag-ship, being in the advance, drew somewhat ahead of the smoke, although even she had from time to time to stop firing to enable the pilot to see.
He gave his name as Morales, and said that he had sometime been a pilot of Seville, but being captured by the Moors off Algeciras, had spent close on twenty years in servitude to them.
The Pilot assured us that, considering the Gentleness of the Winds and their pleasant Contentions, as also the Clearness of the Atmosphere and the Calm of the Current, we stood neither in Hope of much Good nor in Fear of much Harm .
Take my arm, and let mepilot you through the crowd.
To this banquet Lincoln was not only invited but placed at the head of the board; having been only the pilot of the enterprise this time did not exclude him.
He was chosen topilot the first steamboat, the Talisman, up the Sangamon.
Lo, thus he stood; in danger's strait The pilot of the Pilgrim State!
So plain and safe is the entrance to this harbor, which in the narrowest part is some hundred yards wide, that a pilot is hardly necessary, though foreign vessels generally take one.
Before sunset the pilot left the ship, which was then headed due south for Nassau, N.
But they must certainly have a good pilot on board the cruiser," we ventured to say.
At that point I engaged the services of a colored man named Brown, to pilot me down the river.
If with us you fear such dangers, you must needs protect your pilot by sharing his labour.
The Passenger and the Pilot In a violent storm at sea, the whole crew of a vessel was in imminent danger of shipwreck.
The pilot expects that will be shortly after daybreak.
The pilot and first mate, who were on the bridge, had just been joined by the captain.
I will pilot ahead with Colonel Burr, and you, Mr. Arlington, shall be taken care of by Miss Hale, who is as familiar as a dryad with these glades.
Both he and his pilot carried pistols in holster and provisions in saddle-bags.
Donald MacLeod of Gualtergill in Sky being appointed pilot and steersman)[296] and got all things in the best order the place and time could admit of.
Accordingly he waited two years, and published in 1874 "The Pilot and his Wife," which made its mark.
The stories have all more or less of a marine flavor; but the only one of them that has a sufficient motif, rationally developed, is one entitled "How the Pilot Got his Music-box.
The Pilot and his Wife" besides reviving Lie's popularity also served to define his position in Norwegian literature.
