706 Thirteenth Memoir on the Law of Storms in India. [No. 166. 



Brig Charles Heddle, Sunday 23d to Monday 24th February, 1845. 



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Courses. 



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West. 







Remarks. 



Weather always the same with a 

 frightful sea. Shipping from time 

 to time very heavy seas. One filled 

 the whole deck fore and aft with 

 two feet of water ; the larboard waist 

 board carried away, much water going 

 down the hatchways and cabin scuttle, 

 though all secured by tarpaulins. 4 

 p. m. fore top-sail blew away, scudding 

 under bare poles, the new fore top- 

 mast stay-sail giving way, saved it; 

 two men at the helm, vessel labouring 

 greatly, storm always at the same 

 height, winds veering round the com- 

 pass from hour to hour, and even in 

 half an hour* 



Brought all the crew aft into the 

 cabin to be at hand, closed up the fore- 

 scuttle. 



N.B. No position given on this 

 day.-H. P. 



Brig Charles Heddle, Monday 24th to Tuesday 25th February, 1845. 



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Courses. 

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Remarks. 



The gale always at the same degree 

 of strength, but the squalls a little 

 heavier, pumps always in hand, vessel 

 making water. All the cabins below 

 wet, the provisions in the great cabin 

 also wet, the vessel making water 

 through every seam in the deck with- 

 SSE. NNW. out exception, baled the water out of 



South. North. the cabin by buckets. 



Shipped several seas which went 

 over all. 



At two in the morning the vessel 

 SSW. NNE. broached to, the water two feet deep 



SW. NE- on the deck. We remained in this 



WSW. ENE. 'dangerous position for about ten mi- 



nutes, when she righted. We broach- 

 ed to again several times from the 

 West. East. speed of the vesself; cleared the scup- 



WNW. ESE. pers. At 10 shipped a sea in the 



fore rigging which carried away jib 

 NW. and flying jib booms. Cut away the 



wreck to clear the bowsprit. 

 Latitude by a doubtful ob- 

 servation, .... .... 16° 18' S. 



Longitude Chronometer, . . 53° 2' 30" 



* The expression is " faisant le tour du compas d' heure enheure et meme une demi heure," 

 of which the literal translation would be, "going round the compass from hour to hour and 

 even in half an hour." What is meant is evidently (by the log) that the wind was going round 

 the compass and changing everv hour or every half hour. 



t The words are "par lavitesse du batiment." No doubt the difficulty of steering her is here 

 implied.— H. P. 



