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

Life Raft

Sea Terms

A pair of segar-shaped sheet iron cylinders connected on the same principle of a catamaran, with thwartship slats to sit on and attached thole pins in the sides for the use of oars. This contrivance is also known as a balsa.

Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
Boat gear — balsa or life raft, boatswain's chair, bale, barrel and cask slings, lark's head, slippery hitch, bellows fog-horn, boat-hook heads, yacht's dingey, deck and dead lights, thole pin and rowlock
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