In eight days the royal flotilla would sail northwards on the rising flood of the Nile.

The fleet overwintered on the island, and the following spring sailed northwards home.

Both were to sail northwards, and over the coming years to chart the Arctic coastline and to test whether it was navigable.

I slept little the night before we sailed northwards on the flood of the river for Asyut and the battle-front.

As the convoy sailed northwards it encountered heavy winds.

However, on 19 July they left Cape Town and sailed northwards.

After sailing northwards along the coast they made landfall in Eendrachtsland.

As the couple sailed northwards, some Englishmen had come aboard off Bridlington and Scarborough.

They sailed northwards for a day or two along the coast; then they headed out to the west.

Far out on the edge of the haze three small boats sailed slowly northwards, truling their nets.