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to the Southward, and she would have been in a safe position to receive the shifts—as each one would have been more aft—and the ship, coming up to the wind, would have been riding head on to the heaviest sea.

If we start with the “Argyleshire” from the beginning of the gale we may follow her on the broken curved line marked 1. 2. 3. &c., sailing E. by S. 63.⁵ miles, E. S. E. 5/8 E. 30 miles, S. E. 3/4 S. 26 miles, and after being hove to on the port tack, drifting S. by E. 6 miles. The wind gradually veering to the Eastward—or to the right (unmistakable evidence of being in the right hand semi-circle) and at the last named point it was N.E. 1/2 N.

It will be remembered that while the ship was sailing to the S’d and E’d, the gale was advancing to the S’d and W’d at the rate of 8.4 miles per hour, and during 12 hours 100.8 miles, while the ship, in the same time having sailed 118 miles S. 66° E. and, as shown, above 96 miles on the cord of the arc of the Storm-circle through which she passed. It follows that at the end of 12 hours she had passed through 196 miles of the Storm-circle, on the cord of that arc, and nearly in direct opposition to the course of the gale.

Dropping a perpendicular from this point on the cord, it will cut the line A. C. in the angle “A,” and point out the actual distance over this line 216.7 Miles, and her distance from the centre at the time of wearing ship 86 miles.

The numbers 1. 2. 3. &c. on the line A. C. point out the particular part of the gale that passed over the ship in her real position, indicated by corresponding numbers on the broken curved line, and consequently her actual track through nearly one half of the Storm-circle, the point at the angle “A,” in the Storm-circle corresponding to the point “A” on the ship’s track. On the starboard tack, the ship during an interval of 30.26 hours—drifted and sailed W. 5/8 N. 13 Miles, N.N.W. 1/2 W. 17 miles, N. 7/8 E. 18 miles, N. by E. 1/2 E. 12.6 miles, N. E. 1/2 E. 27 miles, N.E. by E. 1/8 E. 28.8 miles—making good a course and distance equal to N. 23° E. 83.5 miles,