Selected Extracts from "Famous Ships of the British Navy"


 
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Selected Extracts from "Famous Ships of the British Navy"
A Ship, and Her Rigging.

(To assist our young readers in mastering the nautical details of the preceding pages, we furnish them with the names of the various parts of the masts and rigging of a first-rate man-of-war. The letters and figures refer to the accompanying illustration (p. 309).)

  1. The foremast.
  2. The mainmast.
  3. The mizenmast.
  4. Foretop-mast.
  5. Foretop-gallant mast.
  6. Foretop-gallant yard.
  7. Foretop-sail yard.
  8. Fore-yard.
  9. Maintop-mast.
  10. Maintop-gallant mast.
  11. Maintop-gallant yard.
  12. Maintop-sail yard.
  13. Main-yard.
  14. Mizentop-mast.
  15. Mizentop-gallant mast.
  16. Mizentop-gallant yard.
  17. Mizentop-sail yard.
  18. Cross jack yard.
  19. The gaff:
  20. The spanker-boom.
  21. The fore-chains.
  22. The main-chains.
  23. The mizen-chains,
  24. The quarter galleries.
  25. The fore-chain wales.
  26. The main-chain wales.
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  1. Figure-head.
  2. Fore-shrouds and ratlines.
  3. Foretopmast-shrouds.
  4. Top-gallant shrouds.
  5. Top-gallant backstay.
  6. Top-mast backstay.
  7. Topsail shrouds,
  8. Main rigging.
  9. Maintop-mast rigging.
  10. Maintop-gallant mast rigging.
  11. Maintop-gallant backstay.
  12. Maintop-mast backstay.
  13. Mizen rigging
  14. Mizen-topmast rigging.
  15. Mizen-topgallant mast rigging.
  16. Mizen-topgallant. backstay,
  17. Mizen-topmast backstay.
  18. Mizen, mizen-top, and mizen-top gallant stays.
  19. Main, maintop, and maintopgallant stays.
  20. Stay tackles.
  21. Fore and main-yard tackles,
  22. Fore, main, and mizen tops.
  23. Fore, main, and mizen crosstrees,
  24. Fore, main, and mizen trucks.
  25. Studding-sail (stu'n'sail) booms on fore and main yards.
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  1. The jib-boom.
  2. Bowsprit.
  3. Spritsail-yard.
  4. Dolphin-strikers.
  5. Bobstays.
  6. Jib-Looms and stays.
  7. Foretop-gallant stay.
  8. Jib-stay.
  9. Foretop-mast stay.
  10. Fore-stay
  11. Lifts of the fore, main, and mizen yards.
  12. Lifts of the fore, main, and mizen topsail yards.
  13. Lifts of the fore, main, and mizen top-gallant yards.
  14. Fore, main, and mizen topgallant braces.
  15. Fore, main & mizen topsail braces
  16. Fore braces
  17. Main braces
  18. Cross-jack-yard braces.
  19. Topping.lift.
  20. Vangs.
  21. Signal halliards.
  22. Peak or gaff halliards.
  23. Foot-ropes.
  24. Fore, main, and mizen royals.
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