The Transit.

In page 412, we gave an account of the launching of Captain Gower's newly-constructed vessel, the Transit; we now inform our readers that a trial of her sailing has taken place. She sailed from the Motherbank on Thursday evening, the 19th inst. at six o'clock, with the wind at west, and arrived in the Downs at noon the following day. At one on the same day she sailed for the River, turning up within Margate Sands through the Narrows, and over the Flats, with a double reef top-sail breeze at west, and arrived at Gravesend at midnight on the 21st; on the 22d in the morning, at eight o'clock, she again got under weigh, and turned up to Blackwall the same tide, admidst the admiration and astonishment of the numerous beholders, who viewed the simplicity of her manœuvres. It appears by the testimony of the Downs Pilot, Mr. William Norris, that she would have reached Gravesend on the second tide from the Downs, but for the darkness of the night.

Naval Chronical, Vol. III (1800), p 504

Transcribed by Lars Bruzelius

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