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18. Easurain — Had passed well to the Southward before the Cyclone 

 settled down. 



The Ship Forth was capitally well managed, though from compulsion 

 of circumstances and not by design ; she was ordered to sea from the 

 Pilot and spoke the Camperdown, and being leaky and unmanageable 

 kept before the wind, ran round the Cyclone, being at one time very 

 close on the centre, and was in a good position for coming in again 

 to repair when the weather moderated ! 



The Futtay Allum evidently ran into the Cyclone on its Western 

 and S. Western quadrant till near the centre, when its violence obliged 

 her to heave to, and she seems to have drifted up with the S. Easterly 

 hurricane, and with the storm wave and current, into soundings, disabled 

 and partially dismasted. 



19. Futtle Rozack^-I have already quoted the admirable manage- 

 ment of this ship. 



20. British Sovereign — Like the Barham and Wellesley was excel- 

 lently managed, heaving to at the proper time and place, and escaping 

 all damage. 



21. Charles Kerr. — This ship necessarily stood off to get an offing, 

 but when she had done so, at noon on the 12th, she should have put 

 her helm up and run to the S. W., till the N. Westerly gale of the 

 S. W. quadrant of the Cyclone, and her rising Barometer, shewed her 

 it was safe to haul round the heel of the Cyclone, or time to heave to 

 avoid running up again too early. 



The statistics of this Fleet, for such it was, may be well worth 

 summing up. We find, then, that we have in the twenty-two vessels, 

 the Easurain having altogether passed over the Cyclone tract before it 

 descended, the vessels as follows : 

 At a distance from the Cyclone but well managed in anticipation 



of it, 2 



Ran in too far before heaving to, 2 



Suffered more or less but unavoidably so, 1 



Running into, or with the Cyclone, or lying to in the way of it, but 



escaping with only severe straining, 5 



Dismasted by running, or standing into, or chasing the Cyclone, 5 

 Perfectly well managed by their knowledge of the Law of Storms, 6 

 Well managed from necessity, A 



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