DECKS (continued)

Plate III

A, the principal, or main hatch-way.

B, the stern-post.

C, the stem.

D, the beams, composed of three pieces, as exhibited by D, in one of which the dotted lines shew the arrangement of one of the beams under the other side of the deck.

E, part of the vertical or hanging knee. See also , fig. 16. in the same plate.

F, the horizontal or lodging knees, which fasten the beams to the hides.

G, the carlings, ranging fore and aft, from one beam to another.

H, the gun-ports.

I, the pump-dales, being large wooden tubes which return the water from the pumps into the sea.

K, the spurs of the beams; being curved pieces of timber serving as half-beams to support the decks, where a whole beam cannot be placed on account of the hatch-ways.

L, the wing-transom, which is, bolted by the middle to the stern-post, and whose ends rest upon the fathion-pieces.

M, the bulk-head or partition, which encloses the manger, and prevents the water which enters at the hawse-holes from running aft between decks.

N N. the fore hatch-way.

O O, the after hatch-way.

P, the drum-head of the gear capstern.

P p, the drum-head of the main capstern.

Q, the wing-transom-knee.

R, one of the breast-hooks under the gun-deck.

S, the breast-hook of the gun-deck.

T T, the station of the chain-pumps.

V, the breadth and thickness of the timbers at the heighth of the gun deck.

U U, scuttles leading to the gunner's store-room, and bread-room.

W, the station of the fore-mast.

X. the station of the main-mast.

Y, the station of the mizen-mast.

Z, the ring-bolts of the decks, used to retain the cannon whilst charging.

a, a, the ring-bolts of the sides, whereon the tackles are hooked that secure the cannon at sea.

c a a d, the water-ways, through which the scupper-holes are pierced, to carry the water off from the deck into the sea.

b, b, plan of the foremost and aftmost cable-bits, with their crosspieces g, g, and their standards e, e.

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