Traveling out of the bay by iron sail we held a bearing of 24.
West Cobalt, loaded with scrap iron, sailed from Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 28 June for Halifax.
WAVERTREE, United States: One of the last large wrought-iron sailing ships built, the Wavertree is the largest still afloat.
"It was in my range, so I decided to go for it". Woods' two-iron sailed over a creek and onto the green.
His 4-iron sailed a little off line, but bounced out of the rough and rolled some 50 feet across the green.
By Mark Helprin The New Yorker, January 5 , 1976P. 23 A story told by means of letters recovered from the sunken Samantha, an iron-hulled sailing ship of 1,000 tons, built in Scotland in 1879 & wrecked during World War I.
Woods stayed in the hunt after his worst swing of the day, a 3-iron that sailed 50 yards left of the 15th green, plunked a spectator on the head and wound up in the 16th fairway.
A Sunday that had been filled with shots that should have been framed and hung on a wall in the clubhouse came down to a missed iron shot that sailed left of the 10th green, down in the shadowy no-man's land where bogeys are a given, where Perry was when he clunked a pitch 15 feet past the hole.
Crickets play cricket, kookaburras sound like Richie Benaud and peak 'straya is reached when a wombat drives a car powered by sheets of corrugated iron shaped like the sails of Sydney Opera House.
At this time the harnessing of steam propulsion and the use of screw propellers rendered sails obsolete, iron (and later steel) plating replaced timbers in the hulls and protective sheathing of ships, and rifle-barreled, breech-loading guns firing high-explosive shells greatly increased the range and destructive power of warship batteries.
