Spars and Rigging From Nautical Routine, 1849

by Murphy, John M'Leod; Jeffers, W. N.

• ISBN13: 9780486429892
• ISBN10: 048642989X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-18
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Relying on his own experience in the U.S. Navy and consulting his contemporaries in the maritime profession, midshipman John Murphy produced 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 (a great portion of which was gathered by the author while he was at sea), the study meticulously describes every improvement made in seafaring equipment up to 1849. The thoroughly written 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. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Anchors	p. 76
Anchors Patent	p. 80
Anchors size of	p. 81
Auxiliary in raising Sheers	p. 4
Back-ropes	p. 78
Bending Cables	p. 75
Bending Sails	p. 67
Bitting Cables	p. 79
Blacking Rigging	p. 27
Blocks, Main Purchase	p. 2
Blocks, Brace	p. 38
Blocks, Span	p. 56
Bobstays	p. 10
Bonnet	p. 69
Boom-mainsail, (bending)	p. 72
Boom-mainsail, Sheets	p. 58
Booms	p. 48
Bowlines	p. 62
Bowsprit, (getting in)	p. 6
Bowsprit, Rigging	p. 16
Bowsprit, Shrouds	p. 10
Braces	p. 66
Brails	p. 64
Breast-bands	p. 89
Breechings	p. 67
Bunt-jiggers	p. 65
Buntlines	p. 61
Burton Pendants	p. 31
Burton Straps	p. 37
Buoy-ropes	p. 85
Buoys	p. 84
Cables	p. 74
Cables size of	p. 81
Cat-falls	p. 76
Cat-harpen Legs	p. 32
Cat-head Stoppers	p. 78
Clew-blocks	p. 68
Clew-garnet Blocks	p. 41
Clew-garnets	p. 60
Clew-jiggers	p. 61
Clew-ropes	p. 61
Commodore Smith's Plan for letting go Anchors	p. 78
Courses, (bending)	p. 68
Crossing Top-gallant Yards	p. 46
Crossing Topsail Yards	p. 39
Cross-jack Braces	p. 43
Cutter-stay fashion	p. 25
Cutting Laniards	p. 24
Cutting Rigging	p. 7
Dead-eyes	p. 24
Deep-sea Lead	p. 87
Dipping Messenger	p. 84
Dolphin-striker	p. 33
Down-hauls	p. 63
D-thimble	p. 43
Earings	p. 67
Elliott's Eye	p. 76
English System of setting up Rigging	p. 28
Eye-seizings	p. 8
Eye-seizings size of	p. 66
Fidding Topmasts	p. 31
Fish-davit	p. 77
Fitting Rigging	p. 7
Fitting Sails	p. 67
Flemish-horses	p. 39
Flying-jib, (bending)	p. 71
Flying-jib, Boom	p. 35
Flying-jib Halliards	p. 55
Flying-jib Sheets	p. 58
Flying-jib Stay	p. 14
Foot-ropes, Jib-boom	p. 32
Foot-ropes, Topsail	p. 38
Fore-and-aft Sails	p. 71
Fore Bowlines	p. 62
Fore Braces	p. 51
Fore Buntlines	p. 61
Fore Sheets	p. 56
Fore Stays	p. 9
Fore-stay Straps	p. 10
Fore Tacks	p. 59
Fore-top-gallant Braces	p. 52
Fore-topsail Braces	p. 52
Friction Blocks	p. 66
Funnel	p. 34
Futtock Rigging	p. 11
Futtock Staffs	p. 26
Gaffs	p. 47
Gaff-topsail Down-haul	p. 63
Gaff-topsail Halliards	p. 55
Gaff-topsail Sheets	p. 58
Gammoning	p. 17
Garlands	p. 5
Gaskets	p. 67
Gin-bar	p. 31
Ground-tackling	p. 73
Gun-gear	p. 67
Guys	p. 65
Half-tops	p. 20
Halliards	p. 53
Hanks	p. 70
Hawsers	p. 82
Head-earing Straps	p. 37
Heaving the Log	p. 87
Heel-ropes	p. 32
Jack and Funnel	p. 34
Jack-blocks	p. 33
Jack-stays	p. 38
Jewel-blocks	p. 39
Jib and Staysail Halliards	p. 55
Jib and Staysail Sheets	p. 57
Jib and Staysail Tack-Lashings	p. 60
Jib (bending)	p. 70
Jib-boom	p. 32
Jib brails	p. 64
Jib-guys	p. 33
Jib-stay	p. 13
Jumpers	p. 45
Kedges	p. 81
Kedges (using in boats)	p. 82
Kentledge	p. 1
Lead-lines	p. 87
Leech-lines	p. 64
Lifts, lower	p. 42
Lifts, top-gallant	p. 46
Lifts, topsail	p. 38
Lightning Conductor, Capt. Harris'	p. 34
Log-line and Glass	p. 86
Lower Caps	p. 29
Lower-masts, (getting in)	p. 5
Lower-masts, Rigging	p. 18
Lower-masts, Staying	p. 22
Lower Rigging	p. 21
Lower Studding-sail Booms	p. 49
Lower Studding-sail Clewlines	p. 60
Lower Studding-sail Halliards	p. 56
Lying-to in a small vessel	p. 60
Main and Mizen Stays	p. 9
Main Boom	p. 48
Main Braces	p. 51
Main Buntlines	p. 61
Main Purchase-falls	p. 3
Main Sheets	p. 56
Main Tacks	p. 59
Main Top-gallant Braces	p. 52
Main Topsail Braces	p. 52
Marking Chains	p. 74
Marking Lead-lines	p. 88
Martingal-stays	p. 33
Mast-coats	p. 23
Mast-pendants	p. 7
Messengers	p. 83
Mizen-mast	p. 5
Mizen Top-gallant Braces	p. 52
Mizen Topsail Braces	p. 52
Nippers	p. 84
Out-hauls	p. 63
Parbuckles	p. 1
Parrel, Top-gallant	p. 45
Parrel, Topsail	p. 37
Parrel, Tub	p. 30
Patent Lead	p. 87
Peak Halliards	p. 54
Plan for Cross-jack Braces	p. 43
Preventer Braces	p. 53
Puddening Kedges	p. 82
Quarter-blocks	p. 37
Raising Sheers	p. 5
Rattling down	p. 27
Reef Tackles	p. 63
Reeving Laniards	p. 24
Reeving Running-rigging	p. 51
Rigging Bowsprit	p. 16
Rigging Draft	p. 15
Rigging Flying-jib-boom	p. 35
Rigging Jib-boom	p. 33
Rigging Top-gallant-masts	p. 34
Rigging Topmasts	p. 31
Rolling-rope, Top-gallant-yards	p. 46
Rolling-tackle Straps	p. 37
Rope-bands	p. 67
Royal Bowlines	p. 62
Royal Braces	p. 52
Royal Clewlines	p. 60
Royal Halliards	p. 53
Royal Yards	p. 47
Royals, (bending)	p. 71
Sails, (bending and fitting)	p. 67
Securing end of Chain-cable	p. 75
Seizings, size of	p. 66
Serving Bowsprit Rigging	p. 11
Setting up Bowsprit Rigging	p. 18
Setting up Futtock Rigging	p. 27
Setting up Lower Rigging	p. 24
Setting up Lower Stays	p. 26
Shackling Chains	p. 76
Sheer Poles	p. 26
Sheers	p. 2
Sheet Anchors	p. 79
Sheets	p. 56
Shifting Studding-sail Booms	p. 50
Shroud, (splicing a)	p. 82
Shrouding	p. 8
Side-tackles	p. 67
Slab-lines	p. 65
Sling-bands	p. 41
Snorters	p. 46
Spanker, (bending)	p. 72
Spanker, Boom and Gaff	p. 48
Spanker, Sheet	p. 58
Spanker, Tack-lashing	p. 59
Spars for Sheers	p. 2
Standing and Breast Backstays	p. 12
Standing Rigging	p. 7
Staying Masts	p. 22
Stoppers	p. 85
Storm-staysail Halliards	p. 54
Storm-staysail Sheets	p. 57
Studding-sails. (bending)	p. 73
Studding-sails. Booms	p. 49
Studding-sails. Gear	p. 66
Studding-sails. Sheets	p. 58
Studding-sails. Tacks	p. 59
Swiftering-in Rigging	p. 26
Swifters	p. 9
Tacks	p. 59
Throat Halliards	p. 53
Top-Blocks	p. 30
Top-Blocks Bowlines	p. 62
Top-gallant Bowlines	p. 62
Top-gallant Braces	p. 52
Top-gallant Buntlines	p. 62
Top-gallant Clewlines	p. 60
Top-gallant Halliards	p. 53
Top-gallant-mast Ropes	p. 33
Top-gallant Masts	p. 33
Top-gallant Rigging	p. 13
Top-gallant Sails, (bending)	p. 71
Top-gallant Sheets	p. 57
Top-gallant Studding-sail Booms	p. 50
Topmast and Spring-stays	p. 12
Topmast Cross-trees	p. 30
Topmast Cap	p. 33
Topmast (getting on board)	p. 28
Topmast Rigging	p. 30
Topmast Shrouds	p. 11
Topmast Stay-sail, (bending)	p. 70
Topmast Studding-sail Booms	p. 49
Topmast Studding-sail Boom-braces	p. 53
Topmast Studding-sail Halliards	p. 56
Top-pendants	p. 31
Topsail Buntlines	p. 61
Topsail Clewlines	p. 60
Topsail Halliards	p. 53
Topsail Sheets	p. 57
Topsail Tyes	p. 39
Topsail Yards, (getting in)	p. 36
Topsail Yards, (crossing)	p. 39
Topsails, (bending)	p. 69
Tops	p. 6
Train-tackles	p. 67
Tressle-trees	p. 6
Trip-shores	p. 80
Truss-straps	p. 41
Trysail Masts	p. 47
Trysail Sheets	p. 57
Turning in Dead-eyes	p. 24
Tye-blocks	p. 36
Tyes	p. 39
Whiskers	p. 43
Whole Tops	p. 19
Yard Slings	p. 11
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