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Plate 191
[Scale 3/8 inch to foot. Parts of boats (designated by figures and, utensils by letters.]
| 1, | Bow-chocks through which tow-line runs when fast to a whale. |
| 2, | Lance straightener; a slot in gunwale for straightening bent irons. |
| 3, 3, | Top or false chocks, nailed on gunwhales. |
| 4, | Box of boat. |
| 5, | Clumsy-cleat or thigh thwart used by boat-steerer to steady himself during the capture. |
| 6, | Shackle or iron strap, for hoisting and lowering the boat to and from the ship. |
| 7, 7, 7, | Timbers of boat. |
| 8, | Platform (forward) upon which boat-steerer and officer stand when striking and working a whale. |
| 9, 9, | Risings, or top board of ceiling, on which the thwarts are placed and nailed. |
| 10, | Harpooner thwart. |
| 11, 11, 11, 11, | Knees on all thwarts. |
| 12, 12, 12, 12, | Dunnage for all thwarts; the main thwart (16) is dunnage all tbo way across. |
| 13, 13, 13, | Boat ceiling (inside planking); the bottom of boat. |
| 14, 14, 14, 14, | Peak cleats; wooden cleats for the reception of the handles of the oars when apeak; used when fast to a whale, when the oarsmen are resting, &c. |
| 15, | Peak cleat for tubtoar. |
| 16, | Bow thwart; a seat for the bow oarsman. |
| 17, | Mast-hinge and strap, showing mast-hinge block. |
| 18,18,18, | Sail-cleats. |
| 19, | Mid-ship thwart for mid-ship oarsman. |
| 20, | Center-board, box and well. |
| 21, | Gunwales. |
| 22, | Tub thwart for tub oarsman. |
| 23, | After thwart. |
| 24, | Well for bailing boat. |
| 25, | Plug for letting water out of boat when on the cranes. |
| 20, | Platform (aft ) on which officer and boat-steerer stand when steering boat. |
| 27, | Standing cleats upon which officer stands when going on to a whale in order to get a longer view. |
| 28, | Cuddy-board. |
| 29, 29, 29, 29, 29, | Cuddy-boards; cedar boards filling up the stern of boat from the cuddy-board aft to stern-post. |
| 30, | Logger head strip, or lion's tongue. |
| 31, | Logger-head; an upright post with enlarged head, around the neck of which runs the tow-line when fast to a whale and by which the line is managed. |
| 32, | Boat-iron, or shackle, same as 6. |
| 33, | Rudder. |
| 34, | Tiller. |
| 35, 35, 35, | High and low rowlocks (wooden), with holes for the reception of shanks of rowlocks. |
| 36, 36, | Bow-cleats; nailed to gunwales, and used in bowing on a whale, and also as safeguard in case the tow-line should jump from bow-chocks and preventing it from sweeping the boat aft. |
| A, | First iron, shank resting in bow-chocks and handle in boat-crotch. |
| B, | Second iron, placed in same position as first iron; the handle of first iron, which is the first instrument used, is placed in the top crotch; the handle of second iron is placed in the lower crotch; the extreme end of tow-line is bent in the eye of the first iron strap; these two irons are known as the live irons or live harpoons. |
| C, C, | Spare irons on port side of boat above thwarts (the two other spare irous, one on either side of boat under thwarts cannot be shown in this plan). |
| D, D, D, | Three lances (thrust by hand) on starboard side of boat, used in killing the whale. |
| E, | Boat spade on starboard side aft. |
| G, | Harpooner oar. |
| H, | Bow-oar. |
| I, | Mid-ship oar. |
| J, | Tub-oar. |
| K, | Stroke-oar. |
| L, | Steering-oar, manipulated by officer of boat when going on to a whale. |
| M, M, M, M, M , | Paddles. |
| N, | Small tub with tow-line coiled down, containing 75 fathoms of line. |
| O, | Large tub with tow line coiled down, containing 225 fathoms of line. |
| P, P, P, | Tow-line extending aft from large tub around loggerhead and forward across the thwarts to box of boat (4), where it is coiled and known as box-warp (PP); thence extending to and bent in eye-splice of first iron strap. |
| Q, Q, | Mast and sail. |
| R, | Steering-oar brace.v
| | S, | Lashing or strap for handle of steering-oar when not in use or fast to a whale. |
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