Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Fenders

Sea Terms

Shapes of wood, canvas or rope hung over a vessel's side to protect her from chafing against another vessel or dock. Boat fenders are small round shapes of canvas stuffed.

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