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3278. An oval thimble. This is the ordinary thimble for wire

rigging but it is not often used in hemp.

3279. A round thimble is made of galvanized iron or of other

metal. It is the oldest type of thimble and still is commonly usee

with fiber rope.

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3280. A lashing thimble for wire rigging.

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3281. A lignum vitae truck, thimble or bull's-eye was lashed or

seized wherever needed and was often employed as a fair-l.::ader.

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3283. This is a white whalebone bull's-eye that was used on a

whaleboat's backstay lashing (see JIli 3300) .

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was made in the mid-nineteenth century.

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3285. An eighteenth-century heart was shown by Admiral Paris,

in his Dictionary of the Marine (Paris, 1877).

3286. The common nineteenth- and twentieth-century heart. It

is circular and sometimes has four grooves through the hole instead

of three, which is more common. In England and the United States

hearts, deadeyes and bull's-eyes were made of elm wood before the

o nineteenth century; later ones are of lignum vitae.

3287. A deadeye. This is from a painting of 1640. The detail may

32.84 328& be correct but the painting as a whole is not authoritative.

3288. From Crescentio's Nautica Mediterrania (1607).
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3188 '32.99 3290. A forestay strap is made of the same material as the stay. A

length about four times the circumference of the bowsprit is short

spliced to form a grommet. Two eyes are seized in and one eye is

rove through the other, to enclose a large heart through which the

lanyards are rove.

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3291. A de:adeye collar has a span of EYE SPLICES which is lashed

around the bowsprit. It was given by Lever (1808).

3292. A heart turned in with a throat seizing and lashing eyes, tuJ

securing a forestay.

3293. The cutter stay method of turning in deadeyes was em-

ployed in the mid-nineteenth century. Staysails could be set much

more snugly to the mast than by the ordinary method. In Great

Britain this method was also used on shrouds. The end of the

shroud, having been doubled around the standing part, was seized

as closely as possible with a racking seizing. Then two or three round

seizings were put on and the turning was hammered into place with

commanders.

3294. Bowsprit shroud collars were often made double in the

manner here illustrated. The eyes were lashed around the bowsprit.

Deadeyes and lanyards fOlm a sort of tackle that is found in the

ends of standing rigging. They do not require shivs as they are sel-

dom adjusted. When adjustment is necessary the holes and lanyards

are both well tallowed, and the lanyards are set up with jig tackles.