The 'Chesapeake' made no water; but the 'Shannon' had hands at the pumps continually.
Four witnesses, all officers, stated as of their own observation that the "Shannon" received several shot between wind and water, and used her pumps continuously on the way to Halifax.
This door, together with two pipes which ran beneath it, allowed the passage of large quantities of water from under the river, the checking of which would enable the pumps to cope with the rest.
The water gushed forth in cascades faster than the pumps could pump it out, and in twenty-four hours the 'heading' was filled with water.
The frog pumps in air by that curious movement of the throat which the ignorant suppose to be a preparation for poison-spitting.
Lambert had done well, and all were ready to acknowledge his great courage; but the water, strange to say, remained abundant, and it was only after still further increasing the size of the pumps that it was at last got rid of.
This device controls the pumpswhich fill or empty the ballast-tanks, so as to keep the relation of the submersible to the water which it displaces constant, under which condition the vessel maintains a fixed depth.
On account of the necessity of dealing with large quantities of water in the ballast system, the European submersibles are equipped with pumpswhich can handle eight tons of water per minute.
Should the ship be injured in the forward part and sink by the head, these pumps would be unable to reach the incoming water before her condition had become desperate.
Several fires had started on the steamer, but the crew had been able to keep them under control; big holes gaped open in the ship's side, but there were none as yet below the water line, and the pumps still sufficed to expel the water.
Still the swish of water from the pumps could be heard, but the metallic clanking of steel on steel no longer came up from the engine-room.
He noticed that the pumps were still working at their full speed, and that the steamer had still the unexplained list to port.
Oil pumps serving the same purpose are now often used.
Pumps do not work very well when drawing water from a depth over 20 or 22 feet.
There are two kinds of pumps commonly used on traction engines, the Independent pump, and the Cross-head pump.
A small pump pumps it up to a small box or feed tank, which has an overflow pipe to conduct any superfluous gasoline back to the supply tank.
It is to be noted that all suction pumps receive their water by reason of the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the supply tank or well.
This afternoon our ship became very leaky, having suddenly four and a half feet water in the hold, which kept both pumps going a long while before we could free her.
The captain very wisely decided to have these pumps worked by his crew, so that in case of any danger the men should be ready to manipulate them easily.
The pumps were worked frantically, and the result was that the hold filled entirely, and the captain was obliged to abandon the ship after seeing the passengers safely off in the boats.
When the pumps of the Arrandoon had been tried, and it was found that there was no extra water in her, McBain felt glad indeed, and thanked God from his inmost heart for their safe deliverance from this great peril.
So they went to the pumps themselves, and worked away for hours for dear life itself.
We got our great pumps ready to cope with the flooding.
It was dripping now, and the sound of the pumps throbbed through the ruins like the struggling heart of a wounded thing.
It was weeks before thepumps could force the water back into the Gulf.
After remaining on her course a few minutes longer, the boat was headed toward the land, and new efforts were put forth to encourage all on board to assist at the pumps and barrels.
On Saturday, the chaine a bras was discontinued, as the engineers had brought the pumpseffectually to work.
Notwithstanding the untiring efforts made to place these pumps in the mine, it was found impossible.
With this hope, and that influence which strong minds always exert under such circumstances, many took hold again of the pumps with a kind of desperate exertion, and for a time they even gained on the water.
The engines now were shut down, the air pumps had ceased working.
The air pumps were working valiantly but at each discharge of water ballast the officers of the stranded vessel waited in vain for the welcome "lift" that would tell them the ship was floating free again.
The rapid evaporation and condensation of the water by its affinity for the sulphuric quickly produces ice; and the pumps and other apparatus of Knight and Co.
With the Lake system it is possible to gather material from such localities to a depth of 150 or more feet, the material being drawn up by suction pumps into the vessel and its gold recovered.
In the second century before Christ, the Egyptians had pumpsworked by levers to put out their fires.
We encountered a heavy gale going round the Horn, but the old Juno weathered it bravely, though, as she strained a good deal, we had afterwards to keep the pumps going for an hour or so during each watch.
The leaks increased, and we were now compelled to keep the pumps going during nearly the whole of each watch.
I had no choice but to remain hove-to, and to work away at the pumps to keep the vessel afloat.
Accordingly, having trimmed sails as well as could be done to keep way with the convoy, I ordered the pumps to be manned, and we all set to with a will.
At length one of the pumps was put to rights: a cheerful shout announced the fact.
By forcing the salt down with a long iron the ice was melted, and the pumps at length got to act.
At the same time I set both the pumps going; but do all we could, we could not keep the leak under.
I immediately ordered the pumps to be rigged, and had to keep all hands spell and spell at work at them.
Meantime the pumps were rigged, and we made a desperate attempt to free the ship from water.
A low-muted hiss joined the sound of the whining pumps as Tom opened the valves.
The whine of the mighty pumps began to fill the ship almost as quickly as Astro acknowledged the order.
From the power deck, the massivepumps began their whining roar.
The raw water from the pumps is carried to the filters through riveted steel rising mains which have 20-in.
From McMillan Park Reservoir, the last of the three, the water is lifted by centrifugal pumps about 21 ft.
He led me to an inner chamber where I beheld a battery of twenty radium pumps any one of which was equal to the task of furnishing all Mars with the atmosphere compound.
For eight hundred years, he told me, he had watched these pumps which are used alternately a day each at a stretch, or a little over twenty-four and one-half Earth hours.
When a number of pumps are filled, care must be taken not to put in each an equal quantity of charge between the stars; so that, when they are fired, they may not throw up too many stars together.
Stars for fire-pumps should not be round; but must be made either square, or flat and circular, with a hole through the middle.
The fire-pumps are to be clothed with leaders, in order that they may all be fired together.
Let the bottom rail be five feet long, and the others of such a length as to allow the fire-pumps to stand in the middle of the intervals of each other.
Cases for fire-pumps should be made very strong, and rolled on four or eight-ounce formers, each ten or twelve inches long.
As the loading of fire-pumps requires some skill, it will be necessary to make two or three trials before depending on their performance.
Fire-pumps are intended for a particular use, which we will describe hereafter.
The natural expansion of the air then lets the grain drop to the hopper bottom, whence it issues from an air-lock valve, while the air is drawn away by a pipe communicating with the pumps and is thence discharged into the open.
These little pumpscan be taken anywhere; they are used with a bucket, which is kept full of water by assistants, who pour water into it from other buckets.
Several of his improvements are concerned with water, such as contrivances connected with pumpsand fire-engines, and with building boilers for steam-engines.
This is the indispensable air-chamber, without which even the powerful force-pumps could not yield so steady and persistent a stream.
It is the vital principle of the modern fire-engine, and renders it distinctly different from all squirts, syringes, and portable pumps preceding it.
The greater part of the prisoners were of course removed on board the Wolf, but a few were retained to assist in working the pumps and attending to the wounded.
Lieutenant Jager, commanding the prize, had sent Lord Reginald and Voules to see that the crew at the pumps were persevering in their labours.
It was indispensable, too, that we should be quick in our operations, for every minute we expected the mate to be up to set the pumps going, as it was evident the brig must be taking in water very fast.
The brig took in a good deal of water through her seams, and one of the pumps was kept continually going, Augustus being forced to take his turn.
The water, which hitherto had been carried from the store to the kitchen in buckets, was now raised by a pump, fitted up after the manner of the beer-pumps in general use in London.
It was common also to drive a few wedges of iron between the pumps and these fixtures, for greater security against their being lifted by the pressure of the water, which, in spring tides, was from 12 to 14 feet in depth.
The pumpswere laid in a diagonal position as represented in Plate XI.
These pumps were furnished with a wooden spear or rod, having a cross head or handle at one end, and a leathern valve attached to the other.
I tell you those gentlemen in powder and ruffles, who turned out the toes of their buckled pumps so delicately, were terrible fellows.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pumps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
