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13. Collingwood — This vessel's management in contrast with that 

 of the Futtle Eozack has already been examined. It is evident that 

 her rapidly falling Barometer from noon 12th, and S. E. b. S. gale; 

 at 10 p. m. were indications of a Cyclone to the S. W. of her, which 

 according to the known tracks would be travelling up between North 

 and West or N. West, and that her safe course was to haul out for a 

 few hours to the N. Eastward before the sea was too heavy and till 

 her Barometer rose, and then heave too on the starboard tack, so as to 

 have had the gale always drawing aft, a clear drift, and the pilot station 

 well open to her, whether the Cyclone was to be followed by Southerly 

 or by N. Easterly winds. 



14. Edmundsbury — The Pilot stood to sea at 6.30 p. m. on the 

 Uth, he had consequently abundant time to cross in front of the 

 Cyclone, if he had known or could have ventured to have adopted this 

 plan, which I shall shew at the conclusion of this memoir is almost 

 always the safe one, and that moreover no distance or time is really 

 lost by it. 



15. Framjee Cowasjee — The error of the Pilot on this vessel is 

 exactly that of the Edmundsbury. Fifty miles to the S. W. would have 

 saved her masts, and have given her a N. Westerly and S. Westerly 

 gale, to cross in the wake of the Cyclone and run in again in the fine 

 weather, without straining a rope yarn. 



16. Washington Alston — a. m. the same error of standing to the 

 S. Eastward, and the same dismal penalty paid for it, in loss of masts 

 straining of hull, damage of cargo, and a long tedious drift of thirty 

 seven days ! about the Bay, in light winds and calms, in a disabled 

 state before she could get in again. 



17. John Hepburn — This little vessel was bound to the Eastward 

 and was one of those caught by the descent of the Cyclone in its 

 central space about noon of the 12th. She had the warning of her 

 Barometer falling on the 11th to 29.50 and a. m. of the 12th to 

 29.38 ; but up to nearly noon of the 12th when the Barometer had 

 fallen to 29.25 and the Cyclone by passing on had given her its 

 S. E. gale with which she was drifting till the 13th, when it gradually 

 left her, she had no wind to indicate to her whereabouts the centre 

 might lie, and in the S. E, gale a small vessel could not risk standing 

 off to the N. Eastward. 



