Strong adverse winds prevented many others from doing so though.
However strong adverse winds and a broken propeller meant that it took 51 days.
He also sent for ships to bring supplies, but adverse winds made this impossible.
MacBride set off at once, but was delayed by adverse winds.
"Yes, but if the fleet was hit by foul weather or adverse winds, they could have traveled less than a thousand miles in that time."
They had been wrong about the capabilities of ships in adverse wind.
Now that there was no further adverse wind, Stanley's breeze prevailed.
But the weather became bad, and adverse winds drove him westward.
Low: fighting adverse winds and heavy rain in the early hours of Christmas morning.
When adverse winds affected them, they scuttled the ship but brought the two boys home.
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