hull down

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We passed through the fleet slowly, and about three o'clock they were hull down on our starboard quarter.

Over again rolled the vast lumbering hull—down—right down upon us it came.

They were steering north, and were hull-down, so that they probably failed to notice the presence of the Flying Fish.

He 'd be hull down in five hours, for this is a slow old tub.

In half an hour both vessels were hull down in the offing, and were soon invisible from our point of view.

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