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Booms
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
- Masts or yards, lying on board in reserve.
- A space where the spare spars are stowed; the launch being generally stowed between them.
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Swinging the compass, английский
Measuring the accuracy in a ship`s magnetic compass so its readings can be adjusted—often by turning the ship and taking bearings on reference points.
Keelhauling, английский
- Maritime punishment: to punish by dragging under the keel of a ship.
- [1] modern usn term for receiving an exceptionally severe reprimand. [2] a gruesome punishment dating back to antiquity. keelhauling was never used in the usn and was discontinued by the rn in 1720, but was practiced by the french and dutch for at least another thirty years. a stout line was rove through a block on a lower yardarm, passed under the hull, and attached to the culprit’s ankles. another line, running from the yardarm on the other side, was secured around the victim’s chest below his arms. his wrists were bound behind his back. on the captain’s command, the victim was hoisted over the side by the chest line, which was slowly played out, while the slack was taken up by the ankle line. in this way the victim was dragged underneath the vessel’s hull, to appear feet first on the other side. as extra punishment, a cannon was often fired over the delinquent’s head “to astonish and confound him” as he emerged from the water and also “to give warning to all others of the fleet to look out and be wary by his harm” (nathanial boteler, 1634). in addition to nearly drowning, the victim’s thighs, stomach, chest, and face would be severely ripped by barnacles growing on the ship’s hull. these wounds often became infected, which sometimes resulted in agonizing death days or weeks after apparently surviving the ordeal.
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