Fore And Aft Craft And Their Story An Account of the Fore And Aft Rig From the
Fore And Aft Craft And Their Story An Account of the Fore And Aft Rig From the
E Keble Edward Keble Chatterton
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Is reproduced in this volume. But we need not be in doubt as to the appearance of this first Anglo-Dutch craft ; for remem- bering that we saw in a preceding paragraph just now that " lately a yacht has been built in Amsterdam which was almost of the same size, and at least as handsome " as the vessel in which the Breda to Delft trip was taken, and that in the Verschuier picture we have a detailed idea of her lines and rig, we cannot go far wrong if we say that the Mary was practically the coun...terpart of this yacht which has been reproduced from the Vers- chuier painting. She has leeboards and four guns each side like the Mary, and would seem to be about the dimensions just given. Just exactly when the Mary crossed the North Sea I cannot ascertain, but it would seem that by the middle of August she had arrived in the London river, for under date of August 15, 1660, Pepys gives the following in his Diary: " To the office, and after dinner by water to White Hall, where I found the King gone this morning by 5 of the clock to see a Dutch pleasure-boat below bridge.
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