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... piece of soft iron two feet long and half an inch in diameter , and raising it vertically , try its effect on the compass ? —whatever might be its effect as it lay horizontally , it would , when raised per- pendicularly , attract the ...
... piece of soft iron two feet long and half an inch in diameter , and raising it vertically , try its effect on the compass ? —whatever might be its effect as it lay horizontally , it would , when raised per- pendicularly , attract the ...
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... piece of a capstan , or steering wheel . BATTENS . Thin strips of wood put around the hatches , to keep the tarpaulin down . Also put upon rigging to keep it from chafing . A large batten widened at the end , and put upon rigging , is ...
... piece of a capstan , or steering wheel . BATTENS . Thin strips of wood put around the hatches , to keep the tarpaulin down . Also put upon rigging to keep it from chafing . A large batten widened at the end , and put upon rigging , is ...
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... piece of canvas attached to the foot of a jib , or a schooner's foresail , by lacings ; taken off in bad weather . BOOм . A spar used to extend the foot of a fore - and - aft sail , or stud- ding - sail . Boom - irons . Iron rings on ...
... piece of canvas attached to the foot of a jib , or a schooner's foresail , by lacings ; taken off in bad weather . BOOм . A spar used to extend the foot of a fore - and - aft sail , or stud- ding - sail . Boom - irons . Iron rings on ...
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... piece of stout wood , with a hole in the centre for a stay or rope to reeve through , without any sheave , and with a groove round it for the strap , which is usually of iron . Also a piece of thick glass inserted in the deck , to let ...
... piece of stout wood , with a hole in the centre for a stay or rope to reeve through , without any sheave , and with a groove round it for the strap , which is usually of iron . Also a piece of thick glass inserted in the deck , to let ...
Страница 171
... piece of wood used in different parts of a vessel to belay ropes to . CLEW . The lower corner of square sails , and the after corner of a fore - and - aft sail . To clew up is to haul up the clew of a sail . CLEW - GARNET . A rope that ...
... piece of wood used in different parts of a vessel to belay ropes to . CLEW . The lower corner of square sails , and the after corner of a fore - and - aft sail . To clew up is to haul up the clew of a sail . CLEW - GARNET . A rope that ...
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altitude anchor angle apply bearing boat centre chart chro chronometer Circle Sailing cloth boards Colonel Sir William compass course correct magnetic course and distance Dead Reckoning deck Deviation Diff direction Dist Distance Signals East easterly Edition Engineers equator Flags gale give Greenwich mean hauled HENRY LAW hoist horizon Hour-angle hurricane iron latitude leeway light Long LUDGATE HILL mast meridian meridian altitude miles minutes Naut Nautical Almanac Navigation noon North northern hemisphere numerous Illustrations observed parallel parallel ruler Parallel Sailing Pennant pieces of timber Plates port practical protractor quadrant RALPH TATE rigging rope Rudimentary Treatise rule SCOTT BURN semicircle sextant Ship Date ship's head ship's place side Sir William Reid South southern Steam Ships steered storm subtract sun's lower limb tion track Traverse Table true course tude variation vessel West whirlwind William Reid wind Woodcuts yard
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