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A Naval Expositor,

_Shewing and Explaining The Words and Terms of Art belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea_.

Also

_All Species that are received into the Magazines, and on what Services they are Used and Issued._

Together with

_The Titles of all the Inferior Officers belonging to a Ship, with an Abridgment of their respective Duties._

_By Thomas Riley Blanckley._

_LONDON Printed by E. Owen, in Warwick Lane, and Engraved by Paul Fourdrinier at Charing Cross._

MDCCL.

_To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of_ Great Britain _and_ Ireland, _and of all His Majesty's Plantations_, &c.

As the following Sheets have been published by your Lordships Approbation, they are, with the greatest Submission and Gratitude, dedicated to your Lordships,

_By, My Lords, Your Lordships Most Obedient, Most Dutiful, and Most Humble Servant_,

Thomas Riley Blanckley.

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Right Hon. Lord Vere, Baron of _Hanworth_. Philip Vanbrugh, _Esq_; _Commissioner of the Navy at Plymouth_. Commissioners for Victualling His Majesty's _Navy_, (as a Board.) Capt. John Vaughan. Mr Thomas Vaughan.

Hon. Sir Peter Warren, _Knight of the Bath, and Vice Admiral of the Red Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet_. Capt. John Weller, _sen._ Capt. Temple West. Capt. Rupert Waring. Capt. John Wickham. Capt. John Willyams. Capt. Thomas Ward. Capt. John Wynne. William Wood, _Esq_; _Secretary of the Customs_. Lieut. James Wilson. Mr John Ward. Mr John Walton. Mr William Wilcox. Mr Thomas Wyatt. Mr Robert Woollett. Mr John Wilkes. Mr Daniel Whitewood. Mr John Wright.

William Young, _Esq_; _Commissioner of the Six-penny Office_. Mr James Young.

ERRATA.

Page 3, Line 7, _instead of_ Is a Platform, _read_, Are Platforms.—p. 4. l. 1. _instead of_ Is, _read_, Are made of.—p. 8. l. 13, _instead of_ Is a long Bolt, _read_, Are long Bolts.—l. 14. _instead of_ goes round, _read_, go round.—p. 38. l. 15. _instead of_ Is the Flag, _read_, Are Flags.—p. 83. l. 1. _instead of_ Are made, _read_, Is made.—p. 135. l. 12. _instead of_ steeving, _read_, staving—p. 148. l. 9. _instead of_ stands, _read_, stand.—p. 181. l. 1. _instead of_ pretuberant, _read_, protuberant.

Names of each particular Part of a new Ship, as they are put together (in a progressive Manner) for Frameing and Finishing the Structure Building on the Stocks.

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Keel — — — 85 Stem — — — 160 Sternpost } Framed { 161 Transoms } and raised{ 174 Fashion Pieces} together { 54 Dead Rising — — — 49 Floor — — — 57 Timbers — — — 171 Keelson — — — 85 Futtocks — — — 61 Hawse Pieces — — — 72 Top Timbers — — — 172 Waals — — — 181 Harpings — — — 71 Plank — — — 120 Clamps — — — 35 Sleepers — — — 153 Foot Waaling — — — 57 Beams — — — 6 Knees — — — 87 Bitts — — —} 10 Cross Pieces} Carlings — — — 29 Ledges — — — 93 Waterways — — — 183 Spirketing — — — 156 Upper Deck — — — 50 String — — — 165 Quarter Deck — — — 50 Forecastle — — — 58 Partners Mast — —} 116 Capston —} Comeings — — — 40 Breast Hooks — — — 22 Fore Step — — — 160 Riders — — — 132 Pointers — — — 121 Crotches — — — 47 Steps Main — — —} Mizon }160 Maain Capston } Decks Lower the } 50 Flat or Plank } Orlop — — — 113 Capstons — — — 28 Pillars — — — 118 Channels — — — 32 Navel Hoods — — — 110 Knee } of the Head{ 86 Cheeks } { 33 Lyon — — — 102 Trailboard — — — 173 Gallery — — — 62 Taffarel — — — 168 Quarter Pieces — — 127 Brackets — — — 21 Well — — — 185 Pumps — — — 124 Limber Boards — — 97 Garboard Strake, or } 63 Plank } Blkheads — — — 23 Ports — — — 122 Cathead — — — 30 Chestrees — — — 34 Hatchways — — — 72 Scuttles — — — 143 Grateings — — — 66 Ladders — — — 88 Manger — — — 103 Pallating Magazine } and }114 Bread-room } Gunwales — — — 68 Rails — — — 128 Gangways — — — 63 Cleats — — — 35 Kevels — — — 86 Ranges — — — 129 Knight Heads — — — 87 Rother — — — 137 Tiller — — — 170 Scuppers — — — 143 Standards — — — 158 Rufftrees — — — 139 Poop Lanterns — — — 89 Cradle } For { 44 or }Launching { Buildgeways } { 23

N. B. _All the foregoing Particulars, upon any Emergency, may, by a sufficient Number of Men, be taken in Hand very nearly together._

_Naval Expositor_.

A-Baft

Are those Parts which are towards the Stern of a Ship.

Amain

A Sea Term, to strike a Main, is to lower at once.

Anchors

The Parts of an Anchor are, _First_, The Ring unto which the Cable is bent or fastened.

_Secondly_, The Shank, which is the longest Part of the Anchor; and at the End where the Ring goes through, is called the Eye, and wrought Square with two Nutts on it, which are let into the Stock.

_Thirdly_, The Arm is from the Crown to the Flook.

_Fourthly_, The Flook, by some called the Palm, being that broad Part brought on upon the Arm, like an Arrow Head, the sharpest Part of which is called the Bill, and fastens into the Ground.

The Anchors on board a Man of War are the Sheat, Spare, Best and Small Bower, which by the Establishment, are all of one Weight, the Stream one Fourth, the Kedge one Eighth, of the large ones; and the First and Second Rates are allowed a small warping one, one Half the Weight of the Kedge.

When the Cable is Perpendicular between the Hawse and the Anchor, it is then said to be a Peek; when hangs right up and down by the Ship's Side, it is said to be a Cock Bill, upon the Ship's coming to an Anchor; when a Ship drives by the Violence of Wind or Tide, and the Anchor cannot hold her, then it's said to come Home. Those which have lost one of their Flooks, are made use of for Moarings.

Anchor Stock

A Piece of Wood fastened together with Iron Hoops and Treenails upon the Square near the Ring, serving to guide the Flook, so as it may fall right and fix in the Ground.

Ditto Tackle

Are for Loosing too the Stock, so as to be clear of the Bends.

Anchoring

Is Ground fitting to hold a Ship's Anchor, so as she may safely ride it out in a Storm; stiff Clay, and hard Sand, is esteemed the best to be chose for that Purpose.

Anvils

Are used by the Smiths for working all Sorts of Iron-work on.

Aprons

Is a Plat-form raised a little above the Bottom of a Dock at its Entrance, against which the Gates shut.

Arm'd

A Ship is said to be arm'd when fitted in all Respects for War.

Avast

Signifies to stop, hold, or stay.

Auger Bitts

Made of several Sizes, and when shut to a Shank, are for boreing Holes through the Plank and Timbers, that the Treenails may go through them, for fastening both together.

Aunings

Is old Canvas spread by Ropes over the Upper Deck, Quarter Deck, or Poop; and some Ships have them fitted with thin slit Deal, over the Steering Wheel on the Quarter Deck; and all are to keep off the Sun, Rain or Wind.

Axes

Are used for cutting up Junk, or cleaving Wood.

Backstays

Are sort of Shrouds, which go up to the Topmasthead, hath Lanyards reev'd through dead Eyes, and Backstay Plates at the Ship's Side, are called standing or shifting, and are for succouring the Topmasts.

Bail or Bale

Casting or throwing the Water out of a Boat, which when done she is freed.

Ballast

Is in great Ships generally Beach Stones, and in small Iron, laid in the Hold next the Keelson, in order to keep the Ship stiff, so that she may bear the more Sail.

Barrels Press

Are emptied Tar Barrels filled with Clay, to be put on the Drags and Sledges when closeing Cables in the Rope Yard.

Barrecoes

Small Casks of Twenty one Inches long, bound with four Iron Hoops, were formerly allowed to Ships bound on Foreign Voyages for fetching Water.

Bars

Capston

Goes into the Drum-head, at which the Men heave when weighing an Anchor, or purchasing a great Weight.

Port

Each End goes through a Ring Bolt, and with Wedges, barrs in the Ports.

Baskets

Are made use of for carrying Officers Stores in, and several other Uses.

Bason

Is for Ships to lye in to be repaired, before or after taken out of the Dock.

Baulks

Small rough Firr Timber, used for Shoreing Ships when in the Dock, and other such like uses.

Beak Head

The foremost End of the Forecastle, fronting the Head, and limitting the Length of it, and is a becoming Part or Grace of a Ship.

Beak Irons

Are for turning square, round, and all Sorts of Hoops; and also used by Plumbers, as Anvils are by the Smiths.

Beams

Large Pieces of Timber cross the Ship, the Ends of which are lodged on the Clamps to support the Decks, and also keeps her out to her Breadth, and likewise to bear the Weight of her Ordnance.

Beeswax

Is used by the Sail-makers for waxing the Twine before they sew the Seams of Canvas for making Sails.

Beetles Reeming

Used by the Caulkers for driving in their Irons into a Ship's Bottom, in order for Caulking.

Bear

A Ship bears her Ordnance when she carries her Guns well, when having her Sails abroad in a Gale of Wind she don't heel. When sails towards the Shore, she is said to bear in with the Land. When a Ship that was to Windward comes under another's Stern, and gives her the Wind, she is said to bear under her Lee. If sails into an Harbour with the Wind large or before the Wind, she is then said to bear in with the Harbour. When a Ship keeps off from any Land, she is said to bear off from it. When they would express how any Cape or Place lieth from another, they say it bears off so, or so,—In Conding also, they say, bear up to the Helm, (_i. e._) let her go more large before the Wind, and bear up round, that is, let her go between her two Sheets, directly before the Wind.

Bells

Cabbin

Allowed all Ships, for the Use of Admirals, and Commanders, to call their Servants.

Watch

For striking the Hour at each Box in the Yard at Night, and also are allowed all Ships for that Service both in the Day and Night.

Belay

Signifies the same as fasten.

Bench Stakes

Are used by the Smiths for cold Work on a Vice Bench.

Bend

In a Ship, there are several, as the Midship-bend, and others called frame Bends, which shews the Shape of her at the respective Places where they are placed. They say Bend the Cable, when it is seized and made fast to the Ring of the Anchor. To Unbend the Cable is to loosen it from the Ring of the Anchor, in order to be returned into Store, or cut up for inferior Uses.

Bilbows

Is a long Bolt on which are put generally six or seven Shackles, which goes round a Man's Leg when he has committed any Fault, and for securing him in Case his Offence is so great as to deserve further Punishment.

Bildge

The flatest Part of a Ship's Bottom, and when she strikes on a Rock, they say she is Bildged.

Birth

Is a due and proper Distance observed between Ships lying at an Anchor or under Sail; so also the raising or bringing up the Sides of a Ship is called Birthing up; also the proper Place aboard for a Mess to put their Chests, _&c._ is called the Birth of that Mess; also a convenient Place to Moar a Ship is called the Birth.

Bittacle

Is a Sort of Locker framed with Deal to hold the Compass, a Glass and Candle, and stands on the Quarter Deck just before the Steering Wheel, by which, he that Steers the Ship is enabled to keep her in her right Course.

Bite

Is any Turn or Part of a Rope that lies compassing; and therefore when they cannot take the End of a Rope in Hand, they say, Give me the Bite, or hold by the Bite.

Bitter

Any turn of a Cable about the Bitts, is called a Bitter, so as that the Cable may be let out by little and little. And when a Ship is stopped by a Cable, they say, She is brought up by a Bitter. Also that End of the Cable which is wound or belayed about the Bitts, is called the Bitter-end of the Cable.

Bitts

Are two perpendicular Pieces of Timber in the Fore-part of the Ship, bolted to the Gun-Deck and Orlop Beams, their lower Ends stepping in the Footwaaling, the Heads of which are braced with a Cross-piece, and when several turns of the Cable are taken over them, is for securing the Ship at an Anchor; there are generally two Pair of them; besides there are others upon the Upper Deck, which are fixed by the Main and Foremast, and called the Topsail Sheat and Jeer Bitts.

Blacking

Is in small Barrels, and used by the Boatswains for making the Yards Black.

Blocks

Are fitted with Shivers and Pins for Running Rigging to go through, and of the different Natures following.

Blocks Double

Has two Shives, and are used for Jeers, Topsail-Runners, Main Bowlines, Mizon Sheats, and Winding Tackle Falls.

Double Ironbound

The Toptackle Falls for all Ships are reeved through them, the upper ones hook into a Thimble at the End of the Toprope Pendant; and the lower ones has a Swivel in the Iron binding, and hooks either to an Eye or Ring-bolt upon Deck; and so are those for the Catt Falls for Ships from 70 Guns downwards, but with a large Hook, which takes the Shank of the Anchor.

Longtackle

Has one large and one small Shive, one above another, and are used for all single Tackles.

Single

Has only one Shive.

Clewgarnet & Clewline

Are made with a Shoulder, and Holes bored through the same, for the Strap to go through, in order for Lashing the former about the Yards.

Racks

Are lashed to each Side of the Gammoning in the Head, and has several Shives one above another, through which the Spritsail-lifts, Buntlines, Clewlines, and Sprit Topsail Sheats go.

Sheat

Spritsail