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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.

With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe!

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.

The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in Western clouds his parting day.