10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERNFAST»
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sternfast in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Admiralty Manual of Seamanship
Painter and Sternfast. The painter and sternfast are made of 1 2mm polyester
rope. The painter is 5m in length to prevent any danger of fouling the propeller; it
should be secured to the for'ard cleat. The sternfast is secured to the port after ...
2
A Naval and Military Technical Dictionary of the French ...
Croupiader, f. b. tomoorby a stern cable. CeoupiaT, m. small sternfast or cable.
Tide Embossure. Croupierk. /. sternfast ; hawser, cable ; Tapper ; the parts are,
culeron, dock ; four- fiette, slit ; Imgeron, body ; mouiller en — , t« anchor by the
stern ...
3
"Miscegenation": Making Race in America
It is with much trepidation that the reader next encounters the white Mr. Sternfast
explaining to his white daughter Julia that “We must eschew all worldly ideas of
love and romance when duty opposes. And I conceive that it is the duty of every ...
'You, aft there: are you ready with the sternfast?' There was enough surge of the
sea, the crests and troughs rising and falling a good ten feet, for Ned to see that,
as soon as the lifeboat was properly in the water, both falls must be unhooked ...
5
Observations on some points of seamanship, with practical ...
Spy glass—,quadrant—Hamilton Moore or other such book—compass—lead
and line—tinder-box—grapnel. and rope—sternfast—pencil and paper—hammer
and nails—spikes for guns e—handcuffs—spare rope the size of the boat's ...
Anselm John GRIFFITHS, 1824
6
Esteban José Martínez: His Voyage in 1779 to Supply Alta ...
At the name time I ordered the sternfast to the starboard raised, [ f . a a v ] This
task was completed at 8 at night this day. At that time I ordered the launch to go
ashore in order to bring 32 barrels of water and a bull, which the presidio
presented ...
Esteban José Martínez, Vivian C. Fisher, Bancroft Library, 2002
On reaching the shore the coxswain should either jump overboard with the
sternfast or throw it to any one who may be on the beach. The sternfast steadies
the boat, keeps her bow to the sea, and facilitates the landing. On the landing
being ...
Louis Maurice Josephthal, 1915
... the main chains, to the man who had, thrown the sternfast; and to make the
situation of Mr. Biggs still more deplorable, the first lieutenant was standing
looking into the boat, and Captain Wilson walking the quarter deck. _ ' “ Come, Mr
. Biggs, ...
9
The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of ...
Sternfast. A rope confining a ship by her stern to any other ship or wharf.
Sternmost. The furthest astern, opposed to heatlmost. Sternway. The motion by
which a ship falls back with her stern foremost. Stiff. The condition of a ship when
she will ...
10
The Universal Songster, Or Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most ...
... the shouts of the foe and the groans of the - dying, Till his messmate, Tom
Sternfast, was shot-by his side. He shed a kind tear to departed Tom's merit, Who
oft times had cheered him with humour and fun, Then a broadside was ordered,
and ...
