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abaft anchor backstays bend bight block fitted block secured block stropped boat bobstay bolt bowline bowsprit brace block bunt buntlines cable capstan chain clew clewline cringle crosstrees davit dead eye deck double block double strop downhaul eye splice footrope fore-topmast forecastle foremost gaff gantline half hitch halliards Haul taut hawse hawser head earing heel hitch hoisted hooked jib-boom knot lanyard let go lower cap lower mast lower yard luff main topmast main yard mainsail martingale mast-head mizen outhaul passed pendant port quarter block reef reeftackles reeve rope round the yard rove royal runner seizing shackled sheave sheet ship ship's side shrouds single block single strop Single-from slings spanker spliced round spritsail standing starboard stay staysail stopper strop Figs strop round studding sail studding-sail boom tack thimble toggle top-gallant top-gallant yard topmast head topmast rigging topmast studding-sail topsail yard trestletrees trysail upper weather wind yard-arm
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Страница 192 - The friction must be continued under the blanket or over the dry clothing. Promote the warmth of the body by the application of hot flannels, bottles, or bladders of hot water, heated bricks, &c., to the pit of the stomach, the arm-pits, between the thighs, and to the soles of the feet.
Страница 182 - To that peculiar effect of the sea, so frequently destructive of human life, the utmost attention must be directed. The cause of a boat's broaching-to, when running before a broken sea or surf is, that her own motion being in the same direction as that of the sea, whether it be given by the force of oars or sails, or by the force of the sea itself, she opposes no resistance to it, but is carried before it. Thus, if a boat be running with her bow to the shore, and her stern to the sea, the...
Страница 183 - If rowing to shore with the stern to seaward, by backing all the oars on the approach of a heavy sea, and rowing ahead again as soon as it has passed to the bow of the boat, thus rowing in on the back of the wave ; or, as is...
Страница 190 - On rescuing a person by diving to the bottom, the hair of the head should be seized by one hand only, and the other used in conjunction with the feet in raising yourself and the drowning person to the surface. " 8th. If in the sea, it may sometimes be a great error to try to get to land. If there be a Strong "out-setting...
Страница 191 - On each occasion that the body is replaced on the face, make uniform but efficient pressure with brisk movement, on the back between and below the shoulder-blades or bones on each side, removing the pressure immediately before turning the body on the side.
Страница 189 - One great advantage of this method is that it enables you to keep your head up and also to hold the person's head up you are trying to save. It is of primary importance that you take fast hold of the hair and throw both the person and yourself on your backs. After many experiments, it is usually found preferable to all other methods.
Страница 191 - Replace the patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress. Turn the body very gently on the side and a little beyond, and then briskly on the face, back again; repeating these measures cautiously, efficiently, and perseveringly about fifteen times in the minute, or once every four or five seconds, occasionally varying the side.
Страница 183 - ... sufficient inertia (which will be proportional to weight) to allow the sea to pass her, she will in succession pass through the descending, the horizontal, and the ascending positions, as the crest of the wave passes successively her stern, her midships, and her bow, in the reverse order in which the same positions occur to a boat propelled to seaward against a surf.
Страница 184 - or drag, made for the purpose, the object of each being to hold the boat's stern back, and prevent her being turned broadside to the sea or broaching-to. Drogues are in common use by the boatmen on the Norfolk coast ; they are conical-shaped bags of about the same form and .proportionate length and breadth as a candle extinguisher, about two feet wide at the mouth, and four and a half feet long. They are towed with the mouth foremost by a stout rope, a small line, termed a tripping line, being fast...
Страница 209 - August 10, 1861. Under the name of " The Royal Atlas of Modern Geography," Messrs Blackwood and Sons have published a book of maps, which for care of drawing and beauty of execution appears to leave nothing more to hope for or desire. Science and art have done their best upon this magnificent book. Mr A. Keith Johnston answers for the engraving and printing : to those who love clear forms and delicate bold type we need say no more. All that maps should be, these maps are : honest, accurate, intelligible...