A Lecture, Or Essay On the most efficacious means of Preserving The Lives Of Shipwrecked Sailors And The Shipwreck
Forfatter: George William Manby
År: 1813
Forlag: William Clowes
Sted: London
Sider: 39
UDK: 627.9
Delivered at Brighton, for the benefit of the Sussex County Hospital, on the 23rd of October, 1813
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to relay the rope with correctness ; it became therefore necessary to
render it practicable in the dark, particularly where rugged or uneven
ground prevented it being performed by the former directions : it is
therefore to be effected on an oblong frame,
having, at equal distances round its edge, conical pegs, tapering from
their base to the point, on which the rope is faked in tiers, alternately
along and across, as shown here.
This faking, the hand, guided by the pegs, will perform with the
utmost correctness, in darkness as well as by day. The rope being
all faked on the frame, and covered with a lid, having correspond-
ing holes in it to receive the points of the pegs, and secured by lash-
ings or straps on the sides, when this apparatus is called into use,
nothing is required but to insert it, unbuckle or untie the side fasten-