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How Ships Are Built in Holland Today
26 Small Tarpaulins.
6 Large Tarpaulins.
2 Gin blocks, 9 Sheaves, 4 Bushes.
50 Pounds of Sulfur. 200 Balls of Oakum. 4000 pounds of Resin.
10 15
Splicing ds.
Marlin spikes. Scraping Irons.
Tar and Pitch Cauldrons. 10 Buckets.
24 Pump plates. 10 Pump bolts.
6 Pump trunks. 4 Pump hooks.
1 Fish tackle pendant hook. 24 Di erent Hooks.
6 Large spindles. 15 Boat hooks.
2 Pendant hooks.
30 Di erent Thimbles.
1 Kruk met een Stel [no English equivalent].
2 Swivels for the Boat.
2 Grapnels weighing 94 pounds.
1 Hand grapnel, which weighs 236 lbs.
3 Pennant staves. 100 Yard cramps.
200 Yard hoops.
2 Bells, Squares, and Copper Wire.
6 Axes.
2 Locks.
4 Eel spears.
2 Harpoons.
2 Hei-hoeken [perhaps carpenter’s squares?].
1 Crosscut saw. 1 Pit saw.
1 10 7 12 2 12 3 36
Candlesticks.
Carpen ter’s Grapnel.
Di Fire
erent gun tackle rings and Yard hoops. Irons to suspend Lanterns.
hooks. Jackscrew.
Chain plates.
Sounding leads weighing 150 pounds. Servings.
Watering cans.
Tar brushes.
Lanterns to stand astern.
Fathoms old Rope.
12
12 300 18 1 1 18 1 3 3 4
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Hearts.
Buckets.
Pounds of Sulfur.
Compasses.
Azimuth Compass.
Box with loose Compass Cards and Glasses. Hourglasses.
Quarter Glass.
Pennant staves.
Gilded Trucks.
Scrapers.
Coarse linen for cartridges
rowbars.
(p. 282)
Chains for Galley and yard. Plates.
horns ts.
Grease Flin Shears. Packing
needles.
Brooms, Starch, Glue, Chalk.
Copper and Iron wire.
One or two Sea clocks. 12 Bushels Rope Ends.
3⁄4 Pound Moscovia Glass. 12 Shovels.
1 Whetstone.
1 Red Flag of 8 cloths.
1 White Flag of 8 cloths.
1 States Flag of nine cloths. 1 States Flag of 71⁄2 cloths. 1 States Flag of 6 cloths.
1 Jack of 41⁄2 cloths.
1 Top spindle.
6 New Streamers. 1 Rowle.
4 Pump hearts.
4 Pump boxes, 2 Commanders. 36 Belaying pins.
1 Double and one single block for the stay. 1 Sheave in an old block.
1 Cleat block.
10 Deadeyes for the boat. 2 Bushes, drilled.
Following are the spare Blocks, in case the o thers are irre- coverable or lost.
2 Double Topsail sheet blocks. 2 Pendants of 15 inches.
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