Stern Chase to Storekeeper

When one vessel follows directly after another, so that their masts are more or less in line.

Guns fired from the stern ports at the

vessel astern.

Davits projecting from the stern of the vessel for hanging a boat to.

A ladder hung over a vessel's stern for the use of the gig's crew when that boat hangs from stern davits.

The rope leading over the stern of a vessel, and by which that part of her is moored.

A window in the stern of the vessel.

The perpendicular after-framing timber scarphed into the after-part of the keel and extending to the deck. The two extremes of a vessel's frame are the

stem and stern post.

The space abaft the after thwart--a kind of cockpit in the boat in which the passengers sit.

A man who makes a profession of stowing ship's cargoes.

The caterer of the vessel, under whom are the cooks, flunkies, etc.

The woman who attends upon the lady passengers on board ship. The stewardess is under the orders of the steward.

A named applied to masts.

A stiff breeze is a strong breeze. The quality of a ship which permits her to carry a press of sail without heeling over much.

Earthen jars containing gunpowder, rosin, pitch and handgrenades, and used to throw on an enemy's deck. Upon striking the vessel the hand-grenades explode,

setting fire to the inflammable compound, which spreads about. The stink pot probably originated with the Chinese, who used them long before they were known to Europeans. The term stink pot came from the offensive odor which arose when one of these pots broke, as the Chinese always charged theirs with assafcetida. The fetid stench which this gave cause to was at times so overpowering that the crew of an attacked vessel succumbed to an intense nausea, and fell a prey to the Chinese pirates alongside.

Ropes of short length having eyes spliced in one end, the other end being seized to the jackstay on the yard. They hang down and support the foot ropes which reeve through the eyes.

The horizontal crosspiece of an anchor. The stock may be either of wood or iron, and it is always placed at right angles to the arms.

(See Tar.)

A series of blocks inclining toward the water, and on which the keel of a vessel is laid in ship building.

Small channels abaft the regular channels, and to the dead-eyes of which the backstays set up.

A fastening of small stuff used for securing a sail to a boom or gaff after it is furled; on a square sail they are called gaskets.

A short length of rope, one end of which is secured convenient to a running rope (or cable) and employed for checking or regulating the motion of the latter by winding the stopper around it. There are various names applied to stoppers according to their use, namely, deck, laniard, dog, bitt, hatch, wing, ring, slip, check, lever, etc.

Ring bolts in the deck to which the

stoppers are secured.

A double wall knot in the end of a deck stopper.

The one on board steamships who has charge of the ship's stores in the way of rigging, blocks, paint, oils, sails, etc., etc.