Nares, G: Seamanship -

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Résumé :
Excerpt from Seamanship: Including Names of Principal Parts of a Ship; Masts, Sails, Yards, Etc.; Bends and Hitches; Manufacture and Tests of Steel Wire Rope; Flexible Steel Wire Hawsers; Tests and Weights of Hemp Rope, Flexible Steel Wire Hawsers, and Chain Cable Hawser laid rope. Shroud laid rope. Cable laid rope. An eye splice. Fork and lashing eye. A cut splice. A throat seizing. A horse shoe Splice. A half crown. Blocks stropped with a single strop and a thimble. 2 'blocks stropped with a Single strop, to lash round a spar. I Blocks stropped with a double strop p, to lash round a spar. Blocks stropped with a double strop and a thimble. Blocks stropped with two Single i strop s to lash a round a spar. 1 Blocks stropped with two Single 5 strops and a thimble. 1 Block stropped and seized into a pendant. Royal mast. Fore top-gallant mast. Fore topmast, side view. After view. Lower mast. J eer block. Securing top-gallant rigging. Securing mizen topmast stay. The after view Of all the masts. Side View of all the masts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.