Identifier: romanceofshipsto00chat (find matches)
Title: The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944
Subjects: Ships Shipbuilding
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company London, Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
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gement. Nelson made a break in this continuity of a mediaeval custom by painting his hulls black, with a yellow strake along each tier of ports, and the lids of the port-holes black also; and even in this twentieth century, though white has been long since substituted for yellow, many of our big sailing ships engaged in ocean trade present a similar appearance. Iron was introduced to a very small extent for minor supports, though it was not until 1829 that iron ship-building really began, and after that ten years at least were needed to show its value for a ships hull. The old hempen cable was not abolished until) the first half of the nineteenth century, when the modern chain was re-adopted: we cannot say introduced^ since it was already employed during Caesar^s time, as we saw in an earlier chapter. Although the triangular head-sails were now, and had been for years, thoroughly established instead of the old sprit-topsail, yet the sprit-sail yard remained, and the sprit-sail (set, as before, 102 I
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IMAGE: H.M.S. Rodney This shows the midship section and disposition of the guns of H.M.S. Rodney which was built in 1833, and is interesting as affording some idea of the last wooden walls of England. Notice the amount of tumble-home which the top-sides of the hull possess.
THE SAILING SHIP below the bowsprit was also retained for some time in the navy, and much longer in the mercantile marine.There are still living many sailors who remember being shipmates with it in the merchant service, where it was known under the nickname of Jimmy Green.* The bowsprit now becomes a three-part spar, consisting of bowsprit, jib-boom, and flying-boom, and to counteract the upward strain a small spar fixed at right angles to and below the bowsprit, and called a dolphin-striker,was added. Studding-sails were kept in use as they had been for centuries, but they seem to have disappeared when the clippers departed from the sea. These were additional sails set when running sufficiently free before a wind in moderate and ste

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