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Travellers
| Глоссарий морских терминов (рангоут, такелаж, устройство судна) |
Small fittings that slide on a rod or line. the most common use is for the inboard end of the mainsheet; a more esoteric form of traveller consists of "slight iron rings, encircling the backstays, which are used for hoisting the top-gallant yards, and confining them to the backstays".
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Earings, английский
- Small lines, by which the uppermost corners of the largest sails are secured to the yardarms.
- Certain small ropes employed to fasten the upper corners of a sail to its yard, for which purpose one end of the earing is passed through itself; and the other end is passed five or six times round the yard-arm, and through the cringle; the two first turns, which are intended to stretch the head of the sail tight along the yard, are passed beyond the lift and rigging on the yard-arm, and are called outer turns, while the rest, which draw it close up to the yard, and are passed within the lift, &c., are called inner turns. below the above are the reef-earings, which are used to reef the sail when the reef-tackles have stretched it to take off the strain.
Grapeshot, английский
- Small balls of lead fired from a cannon, analogous to shotgun shot but on a larger scale. similar to canister shot but with larger individual shot. used to injure personnel and damage rigging more than to cause structural damage.
- A missile from guns intermediate between case-shot and solid shot, having much of the destructive spread of the former with somewhat of the range and penetrative force of the latter. a round of grapeshot consists of three tiers of cast-iron balls arranged, generally three in a tier, between four parallel iron discs connected together by a central wrought-iron pin. for carronades, the grape, not being liable to such a violent dispersive shock, they are simply packed in canisters with wooden bottoms.
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