A naval expositor : $b shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for seaBlanckley, Thomas Riley
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A naval expositor : $b shewing and explaining the words and terms of art belonging to the parts, qualities, and proportions of building, rigging, furnishing, & fitting a ship for sea
Blanckley, Thomas Riley
Naval art and science -- Dictionaries
Are Pieces of tarr'd Canvas which are put about the Masts at the
Partners, and are also used at the Rotherhead, and there called a
Helm-coat.
Cocks
Furnace
Are soddered on to the Furnaces to let their liquor out, _&c._
Stop
Are used at the Cistern the Men Pump the Water into, with which they
can stop any Branch or Pipe that goes to the Officers Lodgings, or the
Jetty Heads for watering Ships.
Water
Are used at the Officers Lodgings, _&c._
Bosses
Are square Pieces of Brass into which the Cocks are sodder'd.
Cockpit
Is a Plat-form on the Orlop Abaft, where the Steward Room, Purser and
Chirurgeon's Cabbins are built.
Cold Chissels
Are for cutting off any Bolt.
Collar
Of the Forestay is seized round the Bowsprit, the Main fastened about
the Beak-head, and the Mizon about the Main-mast, having dead Eyes
fixed in them, through which the Lanyards go, as well as those at the
End of the Stays.
Collers
Are used by the Smiths to work Anchors in.
Colours, Ensigns
Is the Flag hoisted at the Stern of a Ship, in the Canton of which the
Union is placed.
Colours
Flags
Are Colours which the Admirals of the Fleet are allowed. The Admiral
carries his at the Main-top-mast-head; the Vice-Admiral at the Fore,
and the Rear-Admiral his at the Mizon-top-mast-head; beside there is
allowed to each Flag a Proportion of Signal Colours.
Lord High Admiral
Is a red Flag, which has the Anchor and Cable in yellow Bewper, placed
in the Center of it.
Pendants
Are of different Lengths, cut pointing towards the End, and there
divided into two Parts, and are hoisted on a Spindle at the
Top-mast-head; and those for Yard Arms are called Distinction
Pendants, and used for Signals.
Jacks
Are hoisted on a Staff at the Bowsprit End, and made in the same
Manner (those for Men of War) as the Union Flags are; and those for
Naval Vessels have the Arms of the Office the Vessel belongs to,
placed in them.
Standard
Hoisted at the Main-top-mast-head when His Majesty is on board; when
the Admiral of the Fleet hoisteth it at the Mizon-top-mast-head it is
for all Flag Officers. When in the Mizon Shrouds the _English_ Flags
only; and when put abroad at the Mizon-top-mast-head and a Pendant at
the Mizon Peek, then the Flags and Land General Officers; when on the
Ensign Staff, the Vice or Rear Admirals of the Fleet, or those that
Command in the second or third Posts, are to come aboard.
Vanes
Are allowed Boatswains to put at the other Mastheads, where the
Pendant don't fly.
Comeings
Are Comeing Carlings, that go Fore and Aft on the middle and upper
Deck, as far as where the Grateings are; the Midship Edge has a Rabbit
for the Grateings to lodge in, and the Edge is as much above the Deck,
as the Deck is thick, to stop the Water. The Hatchways on the Gun Deck
has Comeings round them, but Comeing Carlings is only Plank sayd flat
on the Deck, so thick as to turn the Water.
Commanders
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