Tide Tables for the British and Irish Ports, for the Year 1882 (Paperback)

Tide Tables for the British and Irish Ports, for the Year 1882 Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...when a vessel is turning up from the southward, she should rather endeavour to enter the Firth upon the North side, when she will usually be able to get as far as Brough Ness while the flood is still running. There are large eddies under Stroma and Swona with the flood, Eddies of and where they meet the main stream little whirlpools are produced, Swona and which credulity has exaggerated into objects of importance; on rare S'romaoccasions they might be dangerous to boats. It is almost still water to the eastward of the Skerries during flood, Eddie of and a large eddy is formed between the Great Lother and Old Head, commencing at half-flood on the shpre; it is called Liddel Eddy, from a farm of that name in South Ronaldsha. Ebb stican in the Firth. Inticr Sound. Great Lcther. Siconu. Eddy. Eddy of Stroma. Wherever the tide stream is rapid past any point (here is always an eddy on the opposite side, and these eddies increase as the tide grows older, till at last only a narrow stream of the former tide is left; this may be well witnessed in Hoy Sound, where the flood stream is sometimes diminished by the encroaching ebb to 20 and.30 feet in breadth. The indraught of the ebb stream to the Pentland Firth is felt at a considerable distance from the entrance, so that vessels leaving the Mull of Deerness ia calm weather are sometimes drifted into the Pentland Firth. From Copinsha the stream runs nine hours to the southward, from half flood on the shore to low water; but its rate is slow, never exceeding 2 knots, except near Old Head, where it runs four. There is not much danger to be apprehended from the ebb stream in the Pentland Firth when it has made strong; about 3 hours after low water on the shore, it sets fairly through between Duncansby Head and the Skerrie...

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