Old Sea Wings, Ways, And Words, in the Days of Oak And Hemp
Old Sea Wings, Ways, And Words, in the Days of Oak And Hemp
Robert Charles Leslie
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Most ships, some years back, had a small kitchen-garden planted in boxes of earth in the jolly-boat, which boat was further crammed to her gunwales with greengroceries of every sort ; and, weather permitting, this little garden was a source of great pleasure to a solitary skipper on a long voyage. • We have here two generations of ship-bred poultry. 184 OLD SEA WIXGS, WAYS, AND WORDS, CHAPTER XIV. OLD GROUND- TACKLE. From hemp and sails to chain and steam — A lost art — Keeping a clear hawse — ...Size and weight of old hemp cables — The old wooden- stocked anchor — Some advantages of it — A ship's " manger," and what she disposed of in it — A foal anchor — Two round tarns in the hawse — Consequent troubles — *' The bitter end " — Anchoring nnder sail and steam — Big and little ships as roadsters — Dragging, etc. — Proceedings on boai*d Lord Anson's ship, Cen- iurton, anchored ofE the island of Tinian — Wind against tide — Pooped by her long-boat — Drives to sea with three cables hanging in her hawse, etc.
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