An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere: And Successively Performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, and Captain Cook, in the Dolphin, the Swallow, and the Endeavour: Drawn Up from the Journals which Were Kept by the Several Commanders, and from the Papers of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, Band 1W. Strahan, 1785 |
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... ANCHOR , the principal are the sheet anchor , the best bower and the fmall bower , fo called from their fituation in the ship's bows . The smaller anchors , are the ftream anchor , the kedge anchor , and the grap- pling . AWNING , a ...
... ANCHOR , the principal are the sheet anchor , the best bower and the fmall bower , fo called from their fituation in the ship's bows . The smaller anchors , are the ftream anchor , the kedge anchor , and the grap- pling . AWNING , a ...
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... anchor . BIRTH , alfo fignifies the room or apartment where any particular number of the officers or fhip's company ufually mefs and refide . BOARD , the line over which the fhip runs between tack and tack , when she is turning to ...
... anchor . BIRTH , alfo fignifies the room or apartment where any particular number of the officers or fhip's company ufually mefs and refide . BOARD , the line over which the fhip runs between tack and tack , when she is turning to ...
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... anchor , to determine the place where the anchor is fituated . C. CABLE's length , a hundred and twenty fathom . CAP , a ftrong , thick block of wood , ufed to confine two mafts together , when the one is erected at the head of the ...
... anchor , to determine the place where the anchor is fituated . C. CABLE's length , a hundred and twenty fathom . CAP , a ftrong , thick block of wood , ufed to confine two mafts together , when the one is erected at the head of the ...
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... anchor . To CLEW , or CLUE - UP , to trufs the fails up to the yards by tackles faftened to their lower corners , called their clues . CLOSE upon a wind , or CLOSE - HAULED , the general arrangement or trim of a fhip's fails , when the ...
... anchor . To CLEW , or CLUE - UP , to trufs the fails up to the yards by tackles faftened to their lower corners , called their clues . CLOSE upon a wind , or CLOSE - HAULED , the general arrangement or trim of a fhip's fails , when the ...
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... anchors or moorings . E. To EDGE away , to decline gradually from the fhore , or from the line of the courfe which the fhip formerly fteered . F. FALL , the loofe end of a tackle ; or that part upon . which the people pull , or hoift ...
... anchors or moorings . E. To EDGE away , to decline gradually from the fhore , or from the line of the courfe which the fhip formerly fteered . F. FALL , the loofe end of a tackle ; or that part upon . which the people pull , or hoift ...
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