Flemish Horse to Flying Dutchman

The small extra foot ropes at the ends of topsail yards.

Where an abrupt rise exists in the lines of a vessel it is said to take flight.

A name for a drag or sea anchor.

A line of connecting cribs anchored across a harbor's mouth for breaking the force of the seas and preventing them from rolling into the harbor with natural force.

A chapel built on a floating stage for towing about a harbor.

(See Dry Dock.)

A kind of faucet which is connected to a pipe leading from the vessel's outer side inboard, and is used to flood powder magazines in the event of fire, etc. A cock for filling bath tubs, etc., is called a sea cock.

A rising tide. When it ceases rising it is high tide.

The platform of a vessel over or on each side of the keelson.

The timbers on which the flooring of a vessel rests.

Wreckage floating on the sea; goods found drifting about on the surface of the water.

The name once given to chart compasses. The diagram compasses printed on old charts were elaborated by a rose in their center. This gave rise to the term compass roses as applied to chart diagram compasses.

When a ship has the wind between the beam and the quarter, so that the she goes two or three points large, she is said to have flowing sheets.

A name by which a liquid compass is sometimes called. (See Part III.)

The triangular shape of iron welded on to the end of the anchor-arm.

The title given to the cabin waiters on a merchant passenger vessel.

A deck unbroken by deck houses, poop topgallant forecastle, etc., but presenting an even surface fore-and-aft.

CUTTER YACHT UNDER WAY, LOWERING SPINNAKER-BOOM

The rising tide.

The part of a flag extending from the union to the extreme end. A name also applied to the compass card. (See Union.)

A name applied to the traditional spectre-ship which has been met with, according to the claims of many seamen, to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. The legend runs that in the year A. D. 1652 one Cornelius Vanderdecken, a Holland shipmaster, sailed from Amsterdam for Batavia in command of a Holland ship called the Braave. The vessel reached Batavia, discharged her cargo, loaded, and sailed for Amsterdam; but, after meeting with a succession of westerly gales which prevented the vessel not only from getting around the Cape of Good Hope, but drove her away to the eastward, Captain Vanderdecken, while in a passion over the delay, defied heaven, and, shaking his clenched fist at the skies, swore that he would double the Cape in spite of God Himself. From that day the phantom ship has been struggling to weather the Cape of Good Hope, but the mark of blasphemy against the Most High is on the vessel, and she is doomed, with her Dutch skipper and crew, to sail hopelessly on forever, sometimes reaching, but never passing, the meridian which calls for them a halt, before they are again driven back into the solitude of the Southern Ocean. Under that great span in the heavens, reaching from pole to pole, they can never sail, for the Almighty has hung upon it in letters of righteous wrath: "Thus far shalt thou go and no farther." Seamen believe that to sight this vessel will bring them gales, shipwreck, and death. It is to be remarked that although at one time it was occasionally seen, the Flying Dutchman has not been reported now in some years.