INTRODUCTION. A STORMY gale, which blew directly on the eastern shore of Jutland, and had prevailed without intermission for several days, rendered the situation of H. M.S. S―, then cruizing off that perilous coast, dangerous in the extreme. The dead reckoning, or that deduced from the log, indeed indicated otherwise, for it placed the ship in a most advantageous offing in the North Sea-a circumstance at once corroborated by the pilot, (a veteran in decision,) who having calculated "his latitude and longitude by observation," with a pair of blunt compasses from a shrivelled chart of fifty years' |