Quite true, Stride, I have no doubt that you are Nautically as well as morally correct, so I leave it to you to bring round the mistress, and consider that matter as settled.
"Charlie to the Rescue"
R.M. Ballantyne
Two nations, rivals in science and civilization, who had lately been contending for the empire of the world, and in the course of that contest had exhibited the most heroic examples of promptitude and courage, were Nautically represented, we may suppose, by the elite who walked the decks of the Alceste and the Medusa.
"Narratives of Shipwrecks of the Royal Navy; between 1793 and 1849"
William O. S. Gilly
Commander Peary and he have done what is Nautically known as "swinging the ship," for the purpose of correcting compass errors, and after that there is nothing for them to do but wait.
"A Negro Explorer at the North Pole"
Matthew A. Henson Commentator: Robert E. Peary Booker T. Washington