Rudimentary Treatise on Masting, Mastmaking, & Rigging of Ships ...1853 - 156 pages |
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abaft Backstays Barque bight bolts bowsprit braces Breadth Brig centre chain cross-trees dead-eye deck Description of Blocks Diameter Whole length DIMENSIONS OF MASTS Dimensions of Ship ditto double block Double S. I. B. Downhaul Extreme Length eye-bolt fathoms fitted FLEMISH EYE Flying-jibboom Foot-ropes Fore top Fore-mast and yard foremost Gaff girtlines given diameter half-hitch halliards Headed Length heel hole hook hoop hounds iron Jib-boom knot Known quantities lanyard lashing Main top Main-boom Main-mast and yard Martingale mast-head MASTS AND YARDS Masts or Booms MERCHANT SERVICE middle Mizen-mast Number outer end plate Pole ratlings reeve Rope in Inches round round seizing rove royal Royal-mast and yard RUNNING RIGGING sails Schooner seized sheave sheave-hole shrouds side single block slings Species of Masts splice square standing stays stops strap TABLE SHOWING tackle taffrail taut thimble tons Top-mast and yard top-sail topgallant Topgallant-mast and yard trestle-trees upper
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Page 90 - ... fashion), similar to a racking seizing, and cross with the ends. Open out the heels, carrying one over to each gangway, and placing it on a solid piece of oak or shoe, previously prepared for the purpose. Clap stout tackles on the heels, two on each, one leading forward, the other aft ; set taut the after ones, and belay them. Lash a three or four-fold block, as the upper one of the main...
Page 76 - A block consists of a shell, sheave, and pin ; and from the number of these sheaves it derives its name, viz. : a block with one sheave is called single ; with two sheaves, double ; with three, treble ; and with four sheaves it is called a four-fold block. The shell of a block is made of ash, and has one or two scores cut at each end, according to its size ; these scores are for the purpose of admitting a strap, which goes round the block, in the centre of which is a hole for the pin ; the shell...
Page 145 - Naval Architecture; or the Rudiments and Rules of Ship Building, Exemplified in a Series of Draughts and Plans; with Observations tending to the further improvement of that important art.
Page 27 - SNOW ; a vessel equipped with two masts, resembling the main and foremasts of a ship, and a third small mast, just abaft the main-mast, carrying a sail nearly similar to a ship's mizzen.
Page 90 - ... prepared for the purpose. Clap stout tackles on the heels, two on each, one leading forward, the other aft ; set taut the after ones, and belay them. Lash a three or four-fold block, as the upper one of the main purchase, over the...
Page 67 - A short splice is made by unlaying the ends of two ropes, or the two ends of one rope, to a sufficient length, then crutch them together as per adjoining sketch ; draw them close and push the strands of one under the strands of the other, the same as the eye-splice. This splice is used for block-straps, slings, &c. If the ends are to be served over, they are but once stuck through ; Kg.
Page 78 - A Belaying-Pin Rack is a piece of wood with a number of holes through it, in which belayingpins are stuck ; on the back part are several scores for the shrouds to lie in, to which it is seized.
Page 91 - ... lash a pair of girtline blocks on the mast-head, and reeve the girtlines ; bend the sheer-head girtline to the mast below the bibbs to cant it. Overhaul the main purchase down abaft, thrust the strap through the eyes of the garland, toggle it, and secure the toggle by a backlashing. Take the fall to the capstan and " heave round ;" when the heel rises near the rail, hook on a heel-tackle to ease it inboard. Get the mast fair for lowering by means of the girtlines, have carpenters attending below,...
Page 89 - skids" up and down the sides, for the purpose of keeping the sheer legs clear of the channels ; reeve the " parbuckles," (see p. 20, "Construction of Cranes,") and bring the sheer legs alongside with their small ends aft ; parbuckle them on board, and their heads or after ends resting either on the taffrail, the break of the poop, or a spar placed in the most convenient spot, the more elevated the better.
Page 92 - ... to light it up, unlash it, and lash it again to the forward fork or horns of the sheers, pass a strap round the foremast-head, to which hook a large tackle, carry it well aft, and haul it taut, for the purpose of staying the mast. Lash a couple of large single blocks to the foremast-head, middle a hawser, and clove-hitch it over the sheer-head ; reeve the ends through the blocks at the mast-head, down on deck...