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RIBBANDS
RIBS of a ship
RIBS of a parrel
RIDERS
RIDGE
RIDING
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RIDING between the wind and tide
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RIGGING-OUT a boom
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RIDERS
RIDERS, a sort of interior ribs, fixed occasionally in a ship's hold opposite to some of the principal timbers, and reaching from the kelfon to the beams of the lower-deck, and sometimes higher, in order to strengthen her frame. They are bolted to the other timbers, to support them when it is apprehended the ship is not sufficiently strong in the part where they are fixed; which is generally amidships.The riders have also their floor-pieces and futtocks, and sometimes their top-pieces, all of which are scarsed to each other in the same manner as in the timbers.
The riders ought to be stationed so as to lie between two ports of the lower deck, and to correspond with the timbers to which they are attached, in such a manner, as that the scarfs of the riders may be clear of those of the timbers. They are scored upon the kelfon, clamps, and thick-stuff of the bottom. They are secured by bolts, which are driven from without, so as to penetrate the outside planks, the timbers, the clamps, and the riders on the inside of which last they are fore-locked. See those articles.
These pieces are rarely used in merchant-ships, because they would be extremely inconvenient in the hold, besides occupying too large a space thereof; neither are they always used in vessels of war, at lEast till after the ship is enfeebled by several cruizes at sea.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 243, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1068.html