The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Boatswain's Chair

Sea Terms

A piece of board shaped and hung like a scup seat, and used to sit on while being swayed aloft to perform certain kinds of work.

Sundries — fender, belaying-pin, bolts, serving-mallet, scraper, chain-hook, marling-spike, hand-spike, ballast-shovel, bucket, boatswain's chair, can-hooks, caulking-iron, ladders, thimble, hank, truck and caulking-mallet
Sundries — fender, belaying-pin, bolts, serving-mallet, scraper, chain-hook, marling-spike, hand-spike, ballast-shovel, bucket, boatswain's chair, can-hooks, caulking-iron, ladders, thimble, hank, truck and caulking-mallet
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