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WINGS
WINGS, a name given to those parts of a ship's hold which are nearest to the sides, or furthest removed from the middle of her breadth.This term is particularly used in the stowage of the several materials contained in the hold; as, Stow the large casks amidships, and the smaller barrels in the wings. See TRIM and STOWAGE.
WINGS are also the skirts or extremities of a fleet when it is ranged into a line a-breast, or when bearing away upon two sides of an angle. Thus the ships a, b. fig. 10. & II. plate V. are in the wings of their fleet or squadron.
It is usual to extend the wings of a fleet in the day-time, in order to discover any enemy which may fall into their tract. To prevent separation, however, they are commonly summoned to draw nearer to the center of the squadron before night, by a signal from the commander in chief, which is afterwards repeated by ships in the intervals.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 325, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1516.html