The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . e that the ships of ^** / ^ the ships of the centre tack ^-- / * successively, as they reach ^-^ * the wake of the van: the ^^??^... lee column stands on, tack- **—* ing successively as the ships get into the w^ake of the van, under moderate sail. See Fig. 21. 9. In forming the Fig. on the othertack, when the cen-tre and lee inter-change, the centrebrings to, while
The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . e that the ships of ^** / ^ the ships of the centre tack ^-- / * successively, as they reach ^-^ * the wake of the van: the ^^??^... lee column stands on, tack- **—* ing successively as the ships get into the w^ake of the van, under moderate sail. See Fig. 21. 9. In forming the Fig. on the othertack, when the cen-tre and lee inter-change, the centrebrings to, while theships of the weathertack, under short-ened sail, and thelee under a press of **».^sail, stand on; the ^**^leading ship having gained the wake of the line, tacks, and isfollowed in succession by her division. The centre column. 94 THE ARMY AND NAVY. fills and stands on, when the first ship of that column and thelast of the lee bear from each other in a direction perpendicu-lar to that of the wind. See Fig. 22. 10. To form on this same tack, so that the weather and lee may interchange, the weather and centre bring to, while the lee crowds sail till it can pass ahead of the weather column, when the ships tack in succession. As soon as the Tier. 23. ^^:: J0 ... leadmg ship ofthe centre, andthe last of thelee, bear fromeach other in aline perpendicu-lar to the wind,the centre fillsand tacks in suc-•?* cession when in the w^ake of the now van; and the ships of the weather columndo the same when their leading ship and the last of the cen-tre are under similar circumstances. See Fig. 23. 11. Suppose the centre is to form the van, and the weather pjo-. 24. the rear, in forming the line on the other tack. The weather brings to, while the othe
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