Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
A ship is a marvellous thing. It took ships--and the men who sail them--to circle the world and tie it all together into one round ball. Brave seamen from a thousand ports have faced storms and unknown dangers, first to make the world a bigger place for people to live in, then...
A ship is a marvellous thing. It took ships--and the men who sail them--to circle the world and tie it all together into one round ball. Brave seamen from a thousand ports have...
2. Part 2On modern ships, a machine called a windlass raises and lowers the anchors. In the old days, when sailors had to raise anchors by turning the capstan by hand, they had a phrase...
3. Part 3Many of the ships run between ports on Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Lake Superior is 22 feet higher than Lake Huron. So ships must use a sort of ladder to get from one to the o...
4. Part 4DEEP SIX--when a sailor throws something overboard, he “gives it the deep six.” The expression comes from the days when sailors measured the depth of water with a leadline. The...