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English: Section of a warship
Parts, Members &c. Withinside A. The Head, containing 1 The main stem 2 The knee of the Head or cutwater 3 The lower and upper Cheek 4 The trail board 5 the figure 6 the gratings 7 the brackets 8 the false stem 9 the brest hooks 10 the hawse-hole out of which runs the cable 11 the bulk head afore 12 the cat-head 13 the cat hooks 14 necessary seat 15 the manger within board 16 the bowsprit B. Upon the Fore-Castle 17 the gratings 18 the partners of the foremast 19 the gunwale 20 the belfry 21 the funnel for smoak 22 the gangway going off the fore-castle 23 The fore castle guns C. In the Fore Castle 24 the doors of the Bulk head afore 25 The officers Cabbins 26 the stair case 27 the fore top-sail-sheet bits 28 the beams 29 the carlines D. Middle Gun Deck afore 30 The fore Jeer bits 31 the oven and furnace of copper 32 the captains cook room 33 the ladder or way up into the forecastle E. the lower gun deck afore 34 the knees fore and aft 35 the spriketings the first streak next to each deck the next under the beams being called clamps 36 the beams of the middle gun deck fore and aft 37 the carlines of the middle gun deck 38 The fore bits 39 the after or main bits 40 the hatchway to the gunners and boatswains store rooms 41 the jeer capston F. the Orlop 42 the gunners 43 Boatswains 44 Carpenters 45 the beams of the lower gun deck 46 the pillars 47 the riders 48 the bulk head of the store rooms G. the Hold 49 The foothook riders 50 the floor riders 51 the standirt 52 the pillers 53 the step of the fore mast 54 the keelson or false keel and dead rising 55 the dead wood H. midships in the Hold 56 the floor timber 57 the keel 58 the well 59 the chain pumps 60 the step of the main mast 61 beams of the orlop fore and aft 62 carlines " " I. The Orlop A. Midships 63 the cable tyre 64 the main hatch way K. the lower gun deck A. Midships 65 the ladder leading up to the middle gun deck 66 the lower tyre ports L. the middle gun deck A. Midship 67 the middle tyre of ports 68 the entring ports 69 the main jeer bits 70 twisted pillers or stantions 71 the capston 72 the gratings 73 the ladder up to the upper deck M the upper gun deck A. Midships 74 main top sail sheet bits 75 the upper partners of the main mast 76 the gallows, on which spare top masts are laid 77 the fore sheet blocks 78 the kennets 79 the gunwale 80 the upper gratings 81 the drift brackets 82 the piss deal 83 the capston pall N.Abaft the main mast 84 the gang way of the quarter deck 85 the bulk head of the coach 86 the stair cafe down to the middle gun deck 87 the beams of the upper deck 88 the gratings abaft the main mast 89 the coach or council chamber 90 the stair case up to the quarter deck O the quarter deck 91 the beams 92 the carlines 93 the partners of the mizzen mast 94 the gang way up to the poop 95 bulk head of the cuddy P. The Poop 96 the trumpeter cabbins 97 the taffarel Q the Capt.Lieut. Cabbins R. the Cuddy which is commonly diveded for the Master and Secretaries Officers S. the State Room out of which is made the Bed chamber and other conveniences for the commander in chief 98 Entrance into the Gallery 99 Bulk head of the Great Cabbin 100 Stern Light and after Gallers T. the Ward Room. Allotted for volunteers and land officers 101 the lower gallery 102 the steerage and bulk head of the ward room Parts, Members &c withinside 103 the whipstaff commanding the tillar 104 the after stair case down to the tower gun deck V. Several officers cabins Abaft the Main Mast in which place comonly the soliders make their guard from the entring port W. the gun room 105 the tillar commanding the rudder 106 the rudder 107 the stern post 109 the tillar transom 109 the several transoms viz 1.2.3.4.5 110 the gun room port or stern chase 111 bread room scuttle down out of the gun room 112 the main capston 113 the pall of the capston or stopper of iron 114 the partners X. the Bread room 115 the bulk head of the bread room Y the stewards room where all provisions are weighed and served out Z the cock pit where are subdivisons for the purser and Chirurgeons & mates § The Platform or Orlop where provision is made in time of service for the wounds 116 the hold abaft the main mast 117 step of the mizzen mast 118 the keelson or false keel 119 Dead wood or rising |
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| Source | Cyclopedia. Chambers. 1728 | ||||
| Author | Ephraim Chambers | ||||
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