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Adams was out on the fore air-box, lifting the haul-off warp out of the cheek, a perilous spot, when the sea was seen; he had just time to get back and clasp both arms round the foremast as the sea broke, overwhelming lifeboat and the crew and the captain of the Royal Arch, who was aft, in a white smother of foam.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

The coming breaker floated her, and she swung to her haul-off warp.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

The spectators groaned with horror as the lifeboat disappeared, but the men were straining gallantly at the haul-off warp, and the lifeboat emerged.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

As she nears the sea, faster still she slides and shoots over the well-greased skids, urged forwards by her own weight and pulled forwards by the crew, who grasp the haul-off warp moored off shore a long way, and at last, as a warrior to battle, with a final bound she meets the shock of the first great sea.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

'Man that haul-off warp! she'll never get off against them seas unless you man that haul-off warp!

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

Just as the men were all in the lifeboat, and were about to man their haul-off warp to pull the lifeboat out into deep water thereby, a service of the greatest danger on such a night, some one on the beach -- it was James Laming, the present able Kingsdown coxswain, but then a very young man -- even in that black night discovered a great fender floating in the recoil.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

She depended, therefore, for her launching against this great sea, on her haul-off warp, which was moored one hundred fathoms out to sea, and by which her fifteen men hoped to pull her out to deep water.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

Lest too heavy a surf or any unforeseen accident should prevent this, a cable called a 'haul-off warp' is made fast to an anchor moored out far, by which the lugger men, if need arise, haul their boat out beyond the shallow water.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

But through it all the lifeboatmen, with stubborn pluck, held on to the haul-off warp and strained for their lives, and at last a great sea came and washed them afloat within its recoil, and covered the lifeboat and her crew.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

'The melt haul-off device is especially useful as it gives a direct measure of melt strength, a key variable for fibre production and melt processing.

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