Spars and Rigging
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Spars and Rigging

From Nautical Routine, 1849

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Spars and Rigging

From Nautical Routine, 1849

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Relying on his own experience in the U.S. Navy and consulting his contemporaries in the maritime profession, midshipman John Murphy published this book to provide an accurate portrait of a ship's rigging and spars (masts or yardarms supporting or extending a ship's sail). An important book in maritime history, the study describes every improvement made in seafaring equipment up to 1849.
The thorough text is accompanied by more than 200 clear illustrations and diagrams of period equipment that cover everything from anchors, bowlines, bobstays, booms, lift blocks, and cat-head stoppers, to a flying jib, jackstays, top-gallant rigging, halliards, nippers, and topsail buntlines.
An authentic look at the nautical world of the mid-nineteenth century, Spars and Rigging is an ideal reference for ship model builders, naval historians, and armchair sailors.

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INDEX.

SPARS AND RIGGING.

A.

Anchors
“ Patent
“ size of
Auxiliary in raising Sheers

B.

Back-ropes
Bending Cables
“ Sails
Bitting Cables
Blacking Rigging
Blocks, Main Purchase
“ Brace
“ Span
Bobstays
Bonnet
Boom-mainsail, (bending)
“ Sheets
Booms .
Bowlines
Bowsprit, (getting in)
“ Rigging
“ Shrouds
Braces
Brails
Breast-bands
Breechings
Bunt-jiggers
Buntlines
Burton Pendants
“ Straps
Buoy-ropes
Buoys

C.

Cables
“ size of
Cat-falls
Cat-harpen Legs
Cat-head Stoppers
Clew-blocks
Clew-garnet Blocks
Clew-garnets
Clew-jiggers
Clew-ropes
Commodore Smith’s Plan for letting go Anchors
Courses, (bending)
Crossing Top-gallant Yards
“ Topsail Yards
Cross-jack Braces
Cutter-stay fashion
Cutting Laniards
“ Rigging

D.

Dead-eyes.
Deep-sea Lead
Dipping Messenger
Dolphin-striker
Down-hauls
D-thimble

E.

Earings
Elliott’s Eye
English System of setting up Rigging.
Eye-seizings “ size of

F.

Fidding Topmasts
Fish-davit
Fitting Rigging
“ Sails
Flemish-horses
Flying-jib, (bending)
“ Boom
Flying-jib Halliards
“ Sheets
“ Stay
Foot-ropes, Jib-boom
“ Topsail
Fore-and-aft Sails
Fore Bowlines
“ Braces
“ Buntlines
“ Sheets
“ Stays
Fore-stay Straps
Fore Tacks
Fore-top-gallant Braces
Fore-topsail Braces
Friction Blocks
Funnel
Futtock Rigging
“ Staffs

G.

Gaffs
Gaff-topsail Down-haul
“ Halliards
“ Sheets
Gammoning
Garlands
Gaskets
Gin-bar
Ground-tackling
Gun-gear
Guys

H.

Half-tops
Halliards
Hanks
Hawsers
Head-earing Straps
Heaving the Log
Heel-ropes

J.

Jack and Funnel
Jack-blocks.
Jack-stays
Jewel-blocks
Jib and Staysail Halliards
“ ” “ Sheets
“ ” “ Tack-Lashings
“ (bending)
Jib-boom
Jib brails
Jib-guys
Jib-stay
Jumpers

K.

Kedges
“ (using in boats)
Kentledge

L.

Lead-lines
Leech-lines
Lifts, lower
“ top-gallant
“ topsail
Lightning Conductor, Capt. Harris’
Log-line and Glass
Lower Caps.
Lower-masts, (getting in)
“ Rigging
“ Staying
Lower Rigging
“ Studding-sail Booms
“ clewlines
“ ” Halliards
Lying-to in a small vessel

M.

Main and Mizen Stays
“ Boom
“ Braces
“ Buntlines
“ Purchase-falls
“ Sheets
“ Tacks
“ Top-gallant Braces
“ Topsail Braces
Marking Chains
“ Lead-lines
Martingal-stays
Mast-coats’
Mast-pendants
Messengers
Mizen-mast
Mizen Top-gallant Braces
“ Topsail Braces

N.

Nippers

O.

Out-hauls

P.

Parbuckles
Parrel, Top-gallant
“ Topsail
“ Tub
Patent Lead
Peak Halliards
Plan for Cross-jack Braces
Preventer Braces
Puddening Kedges

Q.

Quarter-blocks

R.

Raising Sheers
Rattling down
Reef Tackles
Reeving Laniards
“ Running-rigging
Rigging Bowsprit
“ Draft
“ Flying-jib-boom
“ Jib-boom
“ Top-gallant-masts
“ Topmasts
Rolling-rope, Top-gallant-yards
Rolling-tackle Straps
Rope-bands
Royal Bowlines
“ Braces
“ Clewlines
“ Halliards
“ Yards
Royals, (bending)

S.

Sails, (bending and fitting)
Securing end of Chain-cable
Seizings, size of
Serving Bowsprit Rigging
Setting up “ “
“ “Futtock “
“ “Lower “
“ “ “Stays
Shackling Chains
Sheer Poles
Sheers
Sheet Anchors
Sheets
Shifting Studding-sail Booms
Shroud, (splicing a)
Shrouding
Side-tackles
Slab-lines
Sling-bands
Snorters
Spanker, (bending)
“ Boom and Gaff
“ Sheet
“ Tack-lashing
Spars for Sheers
Standing and Breast Backstays
“ Rigging
Staying Masts
Stoppers
Storm-staysail Halliards
“ Sheets
Studding-sails (bending)
“ Booms
“ Gear
“ Sheets
“ Tacks
S.wiftering-in Rigging
Swifters

T.

Tacks
Throat Halliards
Top-Blocks
“ Bowlines
Top-gallant Bowlines
“ Braces
“ Buntlines
“ Clewlines
“ Halliards
Top-gallant-mast Ropes
Top-gallant Masts
“ Rigging
“ Sails, (bending)
“ Sheets
“ Studding-sail Booms
Topmast and Spring-stays
“ Cross-trees
“ Cap
“ (getting on board)
“ Rigging
“ Shrouds
“ Stay-sail, (bending)
“ Studding-sail Booms
“ ” Boom-braces
“ ” Halliards
Top-pendants
Topsail Buntlines
“ Clewlines
“ Halliards
“ Sheets
“ Tyes
“ Yards, (getting in)
“ ” (crossing)
Topsails, (bending)
Tops
Train-tackles
Tressle-trees
Trip-shores
Truss-straps
Trysail Masts
“ Sheets
Turning in Dead-eyes
Tye-blocks
Tyes

W.

Whiskers
Whole Tops

Y.

Yard Slings
1
The Board of Examiners of the late graduating class at the Naval School, were also in favor of figure-of-eight turn forms for sheer-head lashings.
2
It will be observed that the suggestion offered under the head of MAST-PENDANTS, in reference to their length, has a direct relation to this point.
3
The mizen-topmast has no spring-stay, of course.
4
the best plan; as it admits of their being sent down in port.
5
“Or half-worn rope.” —Glascock.
6
It will be observed that the figure is somewhat at variance with the absolute conditions of the case, by having the girtlines and tackle apparently on the upper, instead of the lower side of the top; but this has been done designedly, that the reader might see the manner in which they were lead and secured.
7
Brady says, “after the second pair of shrouds,” but without assigning the reason.
8
The Matthew is omitted, as being superfluous, for when it is considered that it is the only knot in use bearing a man’s name, the surname is sufficient for identification.
9
It appears that this theory (upon the correct observance of which so much stress is laid) has in part exploded, although but recently. On board of the ship “Minesota,” the opposite of the rule was observed in the fitting of the port lower-rigging, (in order to ...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. PREFACE.
  5. SPARS AND RIGGING.
  6. STANDING RIGGING.
  7. BOWSPRIT.
  8. RIGGING LOWER-MASTS.
  9. TOPMASTS.
  10. JIB - BOOM.
  11. TOP - GALLANT - MASTS.
  12. FLYING-JIB-BOOM.
  13. TOPSAIL-YARDS.
  14. LOWER YARDS.
  15. WHISKERS.
  16. TOP-GALLANT AND ROYAL YARDS
  17. ROYAL YARDS.
  18. TRYSAIL-MASTS—GAFF AND BOOMS.
  19. RUNNING-RIGGING.
  20. FITTING AND BENDING SAILS.
  21. GROUND TACKLING.
  22. PLATES
  23. INDEX. - SPARS AND RIGGING.