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The best manual ever produced on rigging a sailing ship, based on extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Biddlecombe, Master in the Royal Navy. Complete definition of terms, on-shore operations, process of rigging ships, reeving the running rigging and bending sails, rigging brigs, yachts and small vessels, more. 17 plates.… (altro)
Reprint. Orig. publ. Salem, MA : Marine Research Society, 1925 Developed from The elements and practice of rigging and seamanship / by David Steel (London, 1794) ( )
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"Is tight, and yare, and bravely rigg'd, as when We first put out to sea." - The Tempest, Act. V.
1969 edition.
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The very numerous articles and operations which belong to the Rigging of a Ship, render it somewhat difficult to arrange this subject.
Introduction.
This work was originaly compiled for the use of students in a Naval Academy and it is believed by modern experts to be the best manual ever produced on rigging the sailing ship.
Preface (1969 edition).
The art of rigging ships with rope, other than wire, is now lost, never to return, since the necessity for it has departed; although there are still a few old "shell backs" drifting around who could "clap two ends of a rope together," put a gang of rigging over a mast-head and set it up "as well as e'er a' he that ever crossed salt water."
Introduction (1969 edition).
ABAFT or AFT. - The hinder part of a ship, or all those parts which lie towards the stern. Frequently used to signify further aft, or nearer the stern.
Part I. Explanation of the terms and phrases used in rigging.
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The best manual ever produced on rigging a sailing ship, based on extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Biddlecombe, Master in the Royal Navy. Complete definition of terms, on-shore operations, process of rigging ships, reeving the running rigging and bending sails, rigging brigs, yachts and small vessels, more. 17 plates.