. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. o theGrand Banks. Terreneuviers they designate thesecraft in France, and there are similar vessels whichalso put forth from Cancale, Granville, and they arrive off the fishing grounds the vesselsanchor, and the fishing is done from dories with longlines; and as Kiplings or Connollys readers are aware,the dories sometimes get so far separated in fogs orgales of wind that they are never picked up again,and the men either die of starvation and exhaustionor are mercifull
. Fore and aft craft and their story; an account of the fore and aft rig from the earliest times to the present day. o theGrand Banks. Terreneuviers they designate thesecraft in France, and there are similar vessels whichalso put forth from Cancale, Granville, and they arrive off the fishing grounds the vesselsanchor, and the fishing is done from dories with longlines; and as Kiplings or Connollys readers are aware,the dories sometimes get so far separated in fogs orgales of wind that they are never picked up again,and the men either die of starvation and exhaustionor are mercifully drowned or run down by a kind of craft measures 43*15 metres long and30-35 metres on the water-line, with an extreme beamof 8*72 metres. The two-masted schooner which is next to be con-sidered (Figs. 124 and 128) is also French. She, too,is engaged in the fishing industry, but she has not sofar to wander as the St. Malo craft. True she is aBreton, but she voyages to Iceland after the her lovver canvas she carries a square topsailon her fore and a jib-headed topsail on her main, with. CQ .S< c Q ^ w
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