The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid.
- William Reid
- Date:
- 1849
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The progress of the development of the law of storms, and of the variable winds, with the practical application of the subject to navigation. / by Lieut-Colonel William Reid. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![CHAP. XIII. Gale of 28th Nov. ] 839. See fig. page 36. Hull, on the 28th, the first storm had abated at day- light, and during the whole day the weather continued moderate; and it was not till the evening that the second storm set in there. At Liverpool, and elsewhere, a transient calm occurred between these gales; but the investigations of Mr. Milne show that the second gale was moving faster than the first, so that it appeared to have overtaken the first, and that, at their place of con- tact, both became neutralized in the manner repre- sented in the figure at page 321. In the second storm, the wind veered everywhere over the British islands, from about S.E. to S.W.; and Mr. Milne concludes that the centre passed about 200 miles to the west of Ireland, moving on a N.N.E. pro- gression at a rate of twenty miles an hour. He thinks that this storm, as well as that which preceded it, came from the southward. On the 23rd there was a storm at Madeira, which drove the ships there from the anchorage; and he computes that the rate of pro- gress of nineteen miles per hour, would bring a storm from Madeira to the British islands within the time from the 23rd to the 28th. At Lisbon, a storm set in on the night of the 23rd, blowing southerly; and at Oporto on the 24th, also southerly. On the chart inserted opposite page 323,1 have laid down the track of the Great Western steamer on her voyage from New York to England. On the 28th, that vessel had a heavy swell from N.N.E., increasing as the ship sailed on. On the 29th, she had the wind blowing strong from W. N.W.; from which it would appear that the circles struck on the chart are wdthin the compass of the circuit of this storm. Next day, December 1st, the Great Western had still hard](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2499148x_0352.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
