Light to Lining Cloth

To lift anything along is to light it along. When the jibs are to be slacked off a little the order is given light up or lighten up the head sheets. When a square sail is being reefed the men light out to windward and haul out to leeward.

A tower erected on the coast line, or upon rocks or over shoals, which acts as a beacon by day to warn mariners, and at night the large lantern at the top of the tower is brilliantly lighted, throwing its beams in some cases twenty miles seaward. The various lighthouses are distinguished by the tabulated character of their lights, as red, white, fixed, flashing, etc.

A tax of fifty cents per ton levied upon vessels under certain conditions by the customs authorities.

All the sails above the topsails, also the studding sails and flying jib.

Vessels anchored in the vicinity of shoals to mark the danger, and provided with distinguishing shapes at the mastheads for the daytime, and powerful lights for the night time. (See Flying Light.)

To lighten a vessel is to throw cargo overboard. To lighten up the head sheets is to slacken them off a little.

A flat-bottomed boat for transporting merchandise about harbors and rivers. It is generally provided with a loose-footed sail hoisted on a gaff, and one head-sail.

A copper wire fastened to and extending a short distance above each truck, thence leading down along one of the stays and overboard.

Small portable boards fitted to the flooring in the hold, and which are removed when it is required to clear the limbers.

A small chain rove through the limber holes, and which is used to clear them of dirt, by pulling it back and forth, thus giving passage to the water. A rope sometimes is used in place of a chain.

The plank in the flooring of the hold which lies next to the keelson.

The holes cut in the lowest part of the floor timbers and near the keelson, so as to allow water to pass through them fore-and-aft along the line of the keelson to the pump well.

A term applied to English seamen owing to the Board-of-Trade law concerning the serving out of lime juice to the crews of vessels under the British flag.

Ropes used for various purposes on board ship and known as head-lines. bow-lines, breast-lines, quarter-lines, stern-lines, bunt-lines, clew-lines, leach-lines, spilling-lines, towing-lines, hauling-lines, tripping-lines, etc. Also one or more vessels belonging to a particular firm and engaged in regular trade between two or more ports, as the Red "D" Line.

Drawings which show the lines of a vessel comprise three separate plans, depending one upon the other, and which must correspond in all particulars and be used in conjunction. These three plans are known as the shear plan, body plan, and half-breadth plan. The first shows the outline of the longitudinal vertical section; the second shows the vertical cross-sections, and the third shows the longitudinal transverse section of the vessel at the deck-line, the water-line, and at other stations on the same plane as the water-line.

Extra pieces of canvas sewed on the back of square sails to take the chafe.