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Leag siad amach í ó port abhaile is ag séideadh is an ghairbheann mhór thosaigh na mairnéalaigh ceangal is níorbh fhéidir ceapadh gur ghlan sí den searsú sin an cúng den stróc.

They set her out from the home port and with the blowing and the great roughness the sailors began tying up and it could not be assumed that she cleared from that narrow course of the stroke.