10 A Twenty- Second Memoir on the Law of Storms. [No. 1, 



Ship Fyztjl Citrreem. 



Memorandum of a gale of wind experienced on hoard the ship 

 " Fyzul Curreem," Captain Ballantyne, from the report of 

 Mr. Master Pilot J. Keymer, Saturday, July 15th, 1848. 



Daylight weighed in tow of the steamer Divarkanath, fine weather, 

 wind steady and moderate from N. N. E. 6 a. m. set sail, carried 

 four and half fathoms across Auckland Eidge. 7-30 a. m., 9-45 a. m. 

 The ebb-tide made with us off the lower buoys of Lloyd's Channel. 

 10-45 a. m., wind increasing from .North, but weather clear and fine, 

 noon increasing breeze veering round to N. E., Barometer 29.48, 

 30 p. m. cast off the steamer Beef Buoy W. S. W. lower Floating 

 Light S. S. E. 5-30 p. m. wind falling nearly a calm, and, finding we 

 were loosing ground, brought up in eight fathoms water with the 

 larboard bower anchor, with sixty fathoms cable with the following 

 bearings. 



Eeef Buoy, S. W. by W. \ W. 



Lower Floating Light vessel, S. S. E. 



Megna buoy station ditto, South. 



Bark " Numur" at an anchor S. W. by W., Samarang (do.) N. N. W. 



Eeefed topsails and furled sails, 8-30 p. m. light E. N. E. breeze, 

 commenced weighing, but finding it impossible to weigh during the 

 night, the crew being much exhausted and the wind being light from 

 the Eastward, veered out chain again to sixty fathoms, intending to 

 remain till daylight. 



11-30 p. m. The wind veered round to the S. "W. The sky as- 

 sumed a very threatening appearance to the Westward and the Baro- 

 meter falling ; midnight increasing breeze from the S. Westward with 

 a fearful cross sea, the vessel rolling and labouring very much, had 

 the greatest difficulty in keeping the coolies below. 



Sunday, IQth July, 1848. — About 1 a. m. blowing a fearful gale 

 from S. W. b. W. which came up very suddenly and striking the 

 vessel astern, forged her ahead till the cable was taught, when she 

 parted two stoppers that were on abaft the bitts ; ran out all the 

 cable on deck, and shortly afterwards parted, the helm was immedi- 

 ately put hard over to port and the vessel wore round with her head 

 to the Southward, the yards braced round on the starboard tack, but 

 owing to the quantity of cable that was out, the ship was quite 

 unmanageable, and drifted to the E. N. Eastward, unfortunately at 

 this moment of peril, few of the crew could be found, the greater 



