Complex sentence: With the loss of this weight the "Patrie" once more ascended and was spotted by a Lloyd's signal station at Torr Head on the Antrim coast; the next sighting came soon after, over islands in St. Patrick's Channel, between Ireland and Scotland.
Split into simpler sentences: With the loss of this weight the "Patrie" once more ascended and was spotted by a Lloyd's signal station at Torr Head on the Antrim coast. The next sighting came soon after, over islands in St. Patrick's Channel, between Ireland and Scotland.