A Shot Rolling Ship (2012)
“Martin Dent, being more accustomed to being aloft, did, but swore he could see nothing.‘Where away?’ called Lieutenant Glaister, from the quarterdeck.‘Two sail. Five points free off the starboard bow.’The orders came to stop the drill, and to set a sail plan more suited to the conditions. Midshipman Farmiloe went past them as they let go of the mainsail, and it was sheeted home by the time he got to the tops with his telescope. Both Martin and Ben Walker were back on deck when he reported what ...he could see, the shout directed at Ralph Barclay, who had come on deck, happy to leave the mass of paper which littered his desk and the noisy preparations for yet another dinner being prepared by his wife.
‘Two ships, sir, one square rigged, the other with a single mainmast, though the mainsail, lanteen-rigged seems over-large.’ ‘Does it have a colour, that sail?’ shouted Barclay, through a speaking trumpet, a question that earned him curious looks, but he, having sailed in these waters before, knew why he was asking.‘Deep red, sir.’‘The other?’‘Three masts, sir, dun coloured sails.MoreLess
‘Two ships, sir, one square rigged, the other with a single mainmast, though the mainsail, lanteen-rigged seems over-large.’ ‘Does it have a colour, that sail?’ shouted Barclay, through a speaking trumpet, a question that earned him curious looks, but he, having sailed in these waters before, knew why he was asking.‘Deep red, sir.’‘The other?’‘Three masts, sir, dun coloured sails.MoreLess
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