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ABACK to ADMIRAL of the fleet
Vice-ADMIRAL to AFTER-SAILS
AGENT-VICTUALLER to ALL'S WELL
ALL bands high to ANCHOR
To drag the ANCHORS to To fish the ANCHOR
To sheer the ship to her ANCHOR to Top-ARMOUR
To sheer the ship to her ANCHOR
To shoe the ANCHOR
To weigh the ANCHOR
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Naval ARCHITECTURE (continued)
the middle of her heighth than above and below; and this latter difference of breadth is continued throughout every point of her length. The main breadth of each frame of timbers is therefore the ship's breadth nearly in the middle of her heighth in that part: and the top-timber breadth is the line of her breadth near the upper ends of each timber. It has been already observed, that as both sides of a ship are alike, the artificers only draw one side, from which both sides of the ship are built: therefore the timbers abaft the midship-frame are exhibited on one side of the plane of projection, and the timbers before it on the other.B C. The line which expresses the upper-edge of the keel, from which the heighth of each timber and heighth of it's different breadths are mea-lured.
B D and C E. Perpendiculars raised on the line B C, to limit the ship's extreme breadth and heighth amid-ships; or, in other words, to limit the breadth and heighth of the midship-frame.
A F. A perpendicular erected from the middle of the keel to bisect the line of the ship's breadth in two equal parts.
F * 9. The half-breadth line of the aftmost top-timber; being the uppermost horizontal line in this figure.
Note. The seven lines parallel to, and immediately under this, on the right side of the line A F, are all top-timber half-breadths, abaft the midship-frame; the lowest of which coincides with the horizontal line DE.
The parallel horizontal lines nearly opposite to these, on the lest tide of the line A F, represent the top-timber half-breadths in the fore-body, or the half-breadths of the top-timbers before the midship-frame.
G, H, I, Q, R, S, T. The radii of the breadth-sweeps abaft the midship-frame; those of the breadth-sweeps in the fore-body, or before the midship-frame, are directly opposite on the right side.
e A (c) . The midship-frame, from the extreme breadth downwards.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The outlines of the timbers abaft the midship-frame, in different parts of their heighth.
a, b, 6 d, 6 f, g, h. The outlines of the timbers before the midship-frame, in different parts of their heighth, h being the foremost, or knuckle timber.
K i. The wing-transom, whose ends rest upon the fashion-piece.
L. The deck-transom, parallel to, and under the wing-transom.
M N 0. The lower-transoms, of which 0 k is the third and lowest.
m k P. The dotted line, which expresses the figure of the fashion-piece, without being canted aft.
P. The upper-part, or top-timber of the fashion-piece.
n, o, p, q, r, s. The radii of the floor-sweeps, abaft the midship-frame: those before the midship-frame are on the opposite side of the line A F, to which they are all parallel.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 21, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
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