Übersetzung für '
lee shore' von Englisch nach Deutsch
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- Pannetier, wishing to escape, thought to sail through the Race, but his navigators demurred, fearing the passage of this turbulent channel, with its dangerous lee shore and rocky bottom offering little purchase if they needed to anchor.
- During the trial, evidence was given that Litchfield put the ship into a dangerous situation by coming too close to a lee shore - a shore with the wind blowing on to it.
- Due to the dangers of being driven aground on a lee shore it is essential seamanship to treat one with caution.
- When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner, an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.
- This was thought highly unsatisfactory as the SS Liemba was then exposed on a lee shore to storms from the Northerly trade winds which could cause a dangerous sharp swell in the shallow waters of the bay.
- The French tried to invade Britain in 1759 but their force was defeated at the Battle of Quiberon Bay off the coast of Brittany, fought in a gale on a dangerous lee shore.
- Columbus ran into foul weather on the night of 17–18 October and gained sea room to avoid running onto a lee shore.
- The incident brought home to George Manby the dangers of a lee shore in a storm and led to his invention of Manby's mortar, a life-line for sailors wrecked close to shore.
- He was unwilling to risk the lee-shore, but captain Robert FitzRoy of HMS "Beagle" bullied him into jointly taking "Blonde" to the rescue.
- Further south was a lee shore with no trade goods that could not be obtained further north.
- Bulkley repeatedly tried to persuade Cheap to change his mind, arguing that the ship was in such poor condition that the crew's ability to carry the required sail-plan to beat off a lee-shore or come to anchor was compromised, making Cheap's decision to head for Socorro too hazardous, especially given that the whole area was poorly charted.
- Captain William Kent of "Buffalo" signaled for the flotilla to take in their sails and ride out the storm; on the following morning the crew of "Integrity" discovered that they had lost sight of all three other vessels and were running dangerously close to a lee shore.
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