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London, England, 1803-08-18 00:00:00

NAUTICAL IMPROVEMENTS.

MESSRS. PENNECK and DUNKIN having ob.
[aired a Patent for Methods for improvhig the Sailing and
Navigating of Ships and Veleta, take the liberty of Introducing to
the notice of the Pubiie the following Articles .4 their Patent, to-
gether vrith die advantages conocifted with their adoption. Trefs
improved Methods have met with the decid d approbation of Na
val Olicers, Scientific Sea-rert, Mathematicians, Ste. Their can-
Itrudlions vrith the ca..% which they mutt produce are fo evident
as to be inftanily perceived by any Perfon who is in the kart ac-
quainted with Nautical Principles.
t. A Lurninots Compars, which poiferes there dellrable pro-
perties. ft emits the lead poen* light on the fails, and eon's•
queenly prevents, to a peat meafure, the danger o being dlikoveritd
by an enemy; that painful fenfation with which the glare of the
Bhmeele Areas the eye, is obviated, whilft its points and lever.
are rendered to the great& degree defined and confpkuosis and
its mrd exhibited to meet the eye of the beholder at any angle of
elevation.

e. An Improved Minn, which Is confiderably more powerful
than that at prefect to ere.
3. A new teethed of maneuvring lugger. without dipping their
fails, by which it it prefurned, half the number of men requite at
prefent, can [mahout • ',lra, and that too in a teeth put
of 'beeline.

4- An improved fottar?-fail. In which by a night &header of ,
that fail at antes* In life, the Leettunt, the bane of Sqsarufalls, Is
done away, ands Bunt to windward with a ftraight Lee, are alter- •
nately formed. The trouble and danger in reeling are, on this fail,
in a great etagere obviated; and. whilit the inaprateed Spurr-fall
acquires more than the power of the Lug-fall, It ftill retains Ina
profent facility of brag ma:louvred; and it applicable and ad-
vantageous to all Nuaratrigged ',eras, from the firft rate down-
ward,, and even tech, fquare•tep tails of cotton.
Tliefollowiag lea Latter frees Capt Trammel to the Patentees
GanYkameit, Heiford River, Mayas, dol.
have the ',tritest teinfonn you,thatl bent leer Patent hp are-
Ca as the 111.411 Opiain on board the George and Prances Brig, and
failed with it froth Helloed to Sweatt& the nth Init. The wind at
Smith, I got round the Land's Bad that night, when It cane at
North-Balt,conknoently right a-bead; year fad fo very mach af-
fitted us in weirkii.g the v.:11,1 to windward, that altheegh I have
bad forty years mouton, r a fearnan, I &etre it is the fineft fail
I ever beheld, and want at the fquare-fails. to your plan, I am
confident any wird wooki gala to windward, nearly as much on
one tack as fir could on the old principle in two. as well as have
her velocity increafed in other diertltions of failing: whilft in a
gale of *. Ind theta Is net half the trouble or danger ki means them.
I am now returned to this place eatrundy plotted with its filet,
and am, Centrum*, your bunt* Fermat.
WILLIAM TRANNACK.
• To Mere, Penned and Dunkin-
The Patentee, have received various turroborsdrig ft:time:Mos
as to the drat Maier, improkanatits.
4... Models of there improwanents are sew for lnfpediao at
No. 27, Norfolk nevi, Strand, where they may be fees from is
in the raeraria till pie the afternoon; or sal 1;es: ro may be outdo
to the Patchier, by inters, pnft-paid, addreSed to them at Pen-
. sante. is Cornwall—N. B. The &loads itinerante= in town for
1 lides•Aos, from M*day AP. fns 11l /Modal., Aug. sp.