The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Clouds

Sea Terms

Visible vapor suspended in the atmosphere. Clouds are classed under the following heads: cirrus, cumulus, stratus, cirro-cumulus, cirro-stratus, cumulo-stratus, and cumulo-cirro-stratus, or nimbus. (See Part III.)

Vessel under jury rig, with the four cloud forms — stratus, cirrus, cumulus and nimbus
Vessel under jury rig, with the four cloud forms — stratus, cirrus, cumulus and nimbus
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