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RELIEVING-TACKLES
RELIEVING-TACKLES, two strong tackles used to prevent a ship from overturning on the careen, and to assist in bringing her upright after that operation is completed.The relieving-tackles are furnished with two strong guys, (attrapes, Fr.) or pendents, by which their efforts are communicated, under the ship's bottom, to the opposite side, where the ends of the guys are attached to the lower gun-ports. The other ends of the tackles are hooked to the wharf, or pontoon, by which the vessel is careened. Thus if the ship is first to be laid down on the larboard-side, which is nearest the wharf, the relieving-tackles are passed under her bottom from the laid wharf, and attached to the starboard-tide, by which they will restrain her from falling lower than is necessary. See RIGHTING.
RELIEVING-TACKLE, is also a name sometimes given to the train-tackles of a gun-carriage. See CANNON and EXERCISE.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 240, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1058.html