Year: 1958 Language: English Author: Lubbock B., Mason F.R.I. Genre: History Publisher: H. Locke Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 178 Description: he successful handling of ships of the clipper period— among which must be included the improved type of Blackwall frigate—called for the display of a rare combination of qualities: a blend of daring, foresight, and caution with a thorough knowledge of the ways of winds and seas, and, above all, that instinctive ‘ship sense’ which is as difficult to define, and as impossible of acquisition by those not born possessing it, as the gipsy’s whisper itself.
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The romance of the clipper ships
Language: English
Author: Lubbock B., Mason F.R.I.
Genre: History
Publisher: H. Locke
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 178
Description: he successful handling of ships of the clipper period— among which must be included the improved type of Blackwall frigate—called for the display of a rare combination of qualities: a blend of daring, foresight, and caution with a thorough knowledge of the ways of winds and seas, and, above all, that instinctive ‘ship sense’ which is as difficult to define, and as impossible of acquisition by those not born possessing it, as the gipsy’s whisper itself.
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