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Page xiii
... lower Yards . Top - sail Yards . - Reeving running Rigging . Heaving up lower Yards . Trusses . Lifts and Braces . Top - sail Halyards . — Crossing Top - sail Yards . - Upper Yards . Boom and Gaff . Running Rigging . — Blacking down ...
... lower Yards . Top - sail Yards . - Reeving running Rigging . Heaving up lower Yards . Trusses . Lifts and Braces . Top - sail Halyards . — Crossing Top - sail Yards . - Upper Yards . Boom and Gaff . Running Rigging . — Blacking down ...
Page xv
... lower Yards and Top - masts CHAP . XXIV . HANDLING THE SHIP . - - - · 355 Experience , Promptitude , and Invention , necessary for Command . - Casting.- Tacking . Trimming . - Wearing . — Cracking on . - Taken aback . - Man over - board ...
... lower Yards and Top - masts CHAP . XXIV . HANDLING THE SHIP . - - - · 355 Experience , Promptitude , and Invention , necessary for Command . - Casting.- Tacking . Trimming . - Wearing . — Cracking on . - Taken aback . - Man over - board ...
Page 119
... Yards are made eight square in the middle , and with a shoulder left at the arms for the rigging . ( Fig . 61. ) The Quarter Irons of lower yards open on hinges ; the outer ones are in one piece . Top - sail yards have no quarter irons ...
... Yards are made eight square in the middle , and with a shoulder left at the arms for the rigging . ( Fig . 61. ) The Quarter Irons of lower yards open on hinges ; the outer ones are in one piece . Top - sail yards have no quarter irons ...
Page 132
... Lower Yards may be fished in several ways ; and altogether replaced by a combination of ship's materials . In all ships the main top - mast , driver boom , and mast fishes Fig . 71 are about the same length as the 132 MANUAL FOR NAVAL ...
... Lower Yards may be fished in several ways ; and altogether replaced by a combination of ship's materials . In all ships the main top - mast , driver boom , and mast fishes Fig . 71 are about the same length as the 132 MANUAL FOR NAVAL ...
Page 133
... yards , and with a top - sail yard and some small spars for filling pieces are readily “ lashed up " into a good substitute for a lower yard . The fore yard of the " Thetis " was carried away at the slings into two separate pieces ...
... yards , and with a top - sail yard and some small spars for filling pieces are readily “ lashed up " into a good substitute for a lower yard . The fore yard of the " Thetis " was carried away at the slings into two separate pieces ...
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