I'll let one bag of ballast go, as we touch the grass, and you must leap in simultaneously.
Stand by your cables," he said, and the bags of ballast were at once cut away.
He took it with a bright carelessness, and in respect to the charge of wanting ballast was apt to answer that ballast was a necessary thing for boats that carried no cargo.
He thought of heaving his ballast overboard and trying to ride out the gale where he was, but then he must abandon all hope of reaching the harbour by his own unaided efforts.
Already half a gale of wind was blowing, and the boat, with the little ballast there was in her, would scarcely look up even to the closest reefed canvas.
Tysdell won the race, having ballast in plenty to throw out, while Carlotta had little, since the extra lifting-power of her balloon was needed for Miss Aerial.
Besides attending to valve-cords and ballast there is the barometer to keep your eyes on, for by it alone can you know your altitude.
In crossin' ther balloon will be loaded with a ballast of sand; but when we come back, ther ballast will be pure gold!
I suppose they'll tell us we ought to rock ballast that line.
The submarine was still rolling sluggishly, in spite of the fact that more water had been admitted into the ballast tanks.
Everything was battened down from within, and with a gentle purr the electric motors were set in motion, while at the same time water ballast was admitted into the trimming-tanks.
She was high in ballast and rolling like a barrel.
A peculiar hissing noise proclaimed the fact that the ballast tanks were being emptied.
The submarine was now motionless, sufficient water ballast having been taken in to allow her to settle firmly upon the bottom; but, in order to be prepared, the anchor was let go.
The ballast tanks were "blown", and cautiously U75 rose to the surface.
Nor did he care to order the ballast tanks to be blown.
I heard he's here to buy the ballast bricks for his master's plantation on the island.
Why, anyone knows that these are the bricks brought over in the hold, my lad, should there not be sufficient cargo, both to make ballast for the vessel and to sell once here.
If a ship in ballast should land the smallest parcel, it was at once charged the higher rate.
These carry cargoes to Asiatic ports, discharge them, and proceed in ballast to the islands.
Presently, as the ballasttanks slowly filled, the Grampus sank until only five feet of the periscope mast was out of water.
Minutes passed without bringing the usual swish of water filling the ballast tanks.
When safely beyond Punta Arenas, the Grampus arose to the surface and rode as high as completely empty ballast tanks would let her.
It needed no more than two hours of stumbling over sleepers and crunching on the rough stone ballast of the track to make of me as tired and dull-witted a hobo as the rest.
When we git our ballast we'll lay out in the stream again.
He also pulled the lever that started the pumps, so that the water ballast would be more quickly emptied, as that would render the submarine buoyant, and she would quickly shoot to the surface.
An instant later there was the hissing of water as it rushed from the ballast tanks.
With a quick motion Tom yanked over the lever that allowed more water to flow into the ballast tanks.
Chapter Five Mr. Berg is Suspicious Not for long did the young inventor endeavor to break his way out of the water-ballast tank by striking the heavy sides of it.
The youth hurried down into the interior of the ship to tell what he had seen, and explain the reason for opening the ballast tanks.
To protect the bark cover from the thrust of the weights used to ballast the frame, some builders inserted small bark or wood shields for padding under the heels of the posts.
It is quite evident that the Beothuk canoes used ballast in the form of stones or heavy cargo.
We had to make the boat heavier in the stern, had to shift the ballast of the heretofore well-balanced boat and pump ballast water out of the bow to pour water into the stern tanks, in order to make the bow lighter and the stern heavier.
We filled the ballast tanks and were lying on the bottom where we could wait for morning at our ease.
Fill the ballast tanks," I called down to the "Centrale.
Having the ballast diminished by nine hundred liters, she leaped upwards rapidly, but this did not suit my purpose, as I preferred first to put up the periscope and find out whether the atmosphere was free from British germs.
Some more water was pumped into the ballast tanks in order to make the boat steadier and then each one at his post carefully examined scuttles and hatchways so that not a drop of water could leak through to us.
As soon as we had stopped sinking, which could be told by the fact the diving rudder was no longer working, a few liters of water were pumped into a ballast tank made for just this purpose.
The filling of the ballast tanks had the desired effect.
The following were the tenders for the Ballast dues:—James Pumfrey.
The highest tender for the ballast dues had not been taken owing to a mistake of the Deputy Town Clerk.
A special meeting of the Council had been held as to the Ballast question, when Mr. C.
In addition to much ballast she held, remotely hidden in a sort of inadvertent way a certain number of ambiguous cases which I didn't examine, but which I gathered were a provision against the need of a trade.
If a sea hit us exceptionally hard he'd be out of the cabin in an instant making an outcry of inquiries, and he was pursued by a dread of the hold, of ballast shifting, of insidious wicked leaks.
Then we are going to chuck all our ballast overboard and take those in.
Carried more sail than ballast last night, and lost my head; this morning I've found it again, with a pig of ballast in it I believe.
Blinding dust and fragments of ballast whirled about the cars as the huge locomotive hauled them rocking over the limitless levels.
It was not an easy matter to keep the horses on their feet or to maintain our own balance, but the swish of the dust and the rattle of flung-up ballast brought some comfort as an indication of our speed.
In spite of the rattling ballast and puffs of whirled-up dust the lash of cool wind was grateful, and the rush of the clanking cars stirred one's blood.
In the morning of the 23d, we had a letter from our captain; then at Assab, informing of his safe arrival there, and the good health of the people, and that he had procured ballast and provisions to his satisfaction.
But just as he was about to blow the ballast tanks, Mel Flagler sang out a warning from the sonarscope.
I am a plain English sailor; my ship was the Laughing Mary, bound in ballast from Callao to the Cape.
The Laughing Mary was a light ship, as sailors term a vessel that stands high upon the water, having discharged her cargo at Callao, from which port we were proceeding in ballast to Cape Town, South Africa, there to call for orders.
An English ship arrived in ballast at Hongkong from Sydney in 1854.
He thereupon proceeded to charter ships under various flags and engaged in distant voyages to proceed in ballast to the China ports, there to load cargoes for Europe.
