Knotting and splicing ropes and cordage

by Unknown

INDEX.

• Albert Laid Rope, [147]
• Arm Gaskets, [97]
• Artificial Eye on Rope End, [98]
• Artilleryman’s Ring Knot, [49]
  
• Band Driving Rope, [133]
• “Becket,” [107]
• Belaying, [103]
• —— Cleat, [103]
• —— Pin, [103]
• Bellringer’s Knot, [88]
• “Bend,” [10]
• —— Shortening, [52]
• Bending Rope to Loop, [38]
• Bends, [34]–42
• Bessemer Steel Wire Rope, Safe Load on, [12]
• Bight of Rope, Definition of, [15], [16]
• Blackwall Hitch, [39]
• Block, Securing, to Rope, [65]
• ——, Stropping, [107]
• Blood Knot, [15]
• Boat Fender, [104], [105]
• —— —— with Ropeyarn Heart, [105]
• —— Knot, Shortening, [57]
• —— Ring Knot, [43], [44], [45]
• Boatswain’s Chair, [131]
• Bow Knot, [19]
• Bowline on Bight, [28]
• —— Knot, [27]
• Builder’s Double Knot, [32]
• —— Knot, [30], [31], [47]
• Bulb, Preparing, on Wire Rope, [151]
• Bunt Gaskets, [97]
• Bunting Fringe, [115]
• Buoy Rope Knot, [74]
  
• Cable Splice, [92], [93]
• Cable-laid Rope, [10], [11]
• Calf Knot, [18]
• Can Sling, [80], [81]
• Capping Wire Rope, [150]
• Capstan Ring Knot, [49]
• Carrick Bend, [37]
• Catspaw, [36], [63], [65]
• Chain Knot for Lashing, [59], [60]
• —— —— Shortening, [52]
• —— —— Double, [58]
• Chain Lashings for Poles and Ledgers, [131]
• Chair, Boatswain’s, [132]
• Check Knot, [24]
• Chocks for Rope Ladders, [116]
• Clamp, Wire Rope, [148]
• Cleat, Belaying, [103]
• Clews, Hammock, [128]
• ——, Sail, [37]
• Clove-Hitch, [32], [47]
• Cocoanut Fibre Rope, [10]
• Coir Rope, [10]
• Colliery Band Rope, [133]
• Cordage, Working, [96]–124
• Cotton Ropes, [10]
• —— ——, Splicing, [93]
• Crabber’s Eye Knot, [27]
• Cramp, Socket, [155]
• Cramped Flat Rope Socket, [155]
• Crane Rope, Splicing Thimble into, [141]
• Cross Lashing, [60]
• Crown Knot or Crowning, [67], [68], [111]
• Crucible Steel Wire Rope, Safe Load on, [12]
• Cut Splice, [92]
  
• Dalliance Knot, [83]
• Davenport Brothers’ Knot, [86]–87
• Delay Knot, [49]
• Diamond Knot, [71], [72]
• —— ——, Double, [72]
• —— ——, Single, [72]
• Dogshanks Shortening Knot, [54]
• Double Boat Ring Knot, [45]
• —— Chain Knot, Shortening, [58]
• —— Diamond Knot, [72]
• —— Lark’s Head Ring Knot, [47]
• —— Pitcher Knot, [79]
  
• End Seizing, [96]
• Eye, Artificial, on Rope End, [98]
• ——, Flemish, [97]
• —— Knots, [24]–29
• ——, Left-handed, Splicing, [141]
• —— Seizing, [96]
• —— Splice, [92]
• —— Wire Rope Splice, [134], [135]
  
• Fairleader, [103]
• Fancy Knots, [66]–88
• Fender, Boat’s, [104], [105]
• Fid for Rope Splicing, [91]
• Figure-of-Eight Knot, [16]
• Fisherman’s Bend, [34]
• —— Eye Knot, [24]
• —— Knot, [21]
• Flat Hemp Rope, Weight of, [12]
• —— Rope Sockets, [155]
• Flemish Eye, [97]
• —— —— Knot, [26]
• —— Knot, [16], [21]
• Four-stranded Ropes, [10]
• “Foxes” for Mat Making, [121]
• French Sennit, [97]
• —— Shroud Knot, [73]
• Fringe, Bunting, [115]
  
• Gaskets, [97]
• Granny Knot, [18]
• Grommet, Splicing, [93]–95, [98]
• Gunner’s Ring Knot, [49]
  
• Halliard Bend, Topsail, [35]
• Hammer, Set, for Tightening Rope, [154]
• Hammock Clew, [128]
• —— Making, [125]–129
• ——, Mesh Stick for Making, [125]
• —— Meshes, [127]
• ——, Meshing, [126]
• ——, Netting, [125]
• ——, —— Needle for Making, [125]
• ——, Slinging, [125]
• Hawser-laid Rope, [11]
• Hemp Rope, Safe Load on, [12]
• —— ——, Sheave on, [12]
• —— ——, Weight of, [12]
• Hermann’s Trick Knot, [18]
• Hide Rope, [10]
• “Hitch,” [10]
• Hitches, [30]–34
• Hook, Mousing, [106]
• Hooped Socket, Fitting, [151]
• —— Winding Rope Socket, [150]
  
• Jar Sling, [80], [81]
• Jury Knot, [79]
  
• Killick Hitch, [32]
• “Knittles,” [105]
• Knot, Artilleryman’s Ring, [49]
• ——, Bellringer’s, [88]
• ——, Blood, [15]
• ——, Boat Shortening, [57]
• ——, —— Ring, [43]–45
• ——, Bow, [19]
• ——, Bowline, [27]
• ——, Builder’s, [30], [31], [47]
• ——, —— Double, [32]
• ——, Buoy Rope, [74]
• ——, Calf, [18]
• ——, Capstan Ring, [49]
• ——, Chain Shortening, [52]
• ——, Check, [24]
• ——, Crabber’s Eye, [27]
• ——, Crown, [67], [68], [111]
• ——, Dalliance, [83]
• ——, Davenport Brothers’, [86], [87]
• ——, Delay, [49]
• ——, Diamond, [71], [72]
• ——, Dogshanks Shortening, [54]
• ——, Double Boat Ring, [45]
• ——, —— Chain Shortening, [58]
• ——, —— Diamond, [72]
• ——, —— Lark’s Head Ring, [47]
• ——, —— Pitcher, [79]
• ——, Eye, [24]–29
• ——, Fancy, [66]–88
• ——, Figure-of-eight, [16]
• ——, Fisherman’s, [21]
• ——, —— Eye, [24]
• ——, Flemish, [16], [21]
• ——, —— Eye, [97]
• ——, French Shroud, [73]
• ——, Granny, [18]
• ——, Gunner’s Ring, [49]
• ——, Hermann’s Trick, [18]
• ——, Jury, [79]
• ——, Lark Boat Ring, [44]
• ——, Lark’s Head Ring, [45]–47
• ——, Lubber’s, [18]
• ——, Manharness Ring, [49]
• ——, Manrope, [69], [112]
• ——, Matthew Walker, [70], [71]
• ——, Mooring, [49]
• ——, Netter’s, [20]
• ——, Openhand, [19]
• ——, —— Eye, [25]
• ——, Overhand, [15], [19], [21]
• ——, Packing, [61]
• ——, Pitcher, [77], [79]
• ——, Portuguese, [61], [109]
• ——, Puzzle, [79]
• ——, Reef, [17]
• ——, Ring, [43]–52
• ——, Rosette, [19]
• ——, Running Eye, [24]
• ——, Sailor’s, [17], [18]
• —— —— Backhanded Ring, [48]
• ——, —— Ring, [49]
• ——, Security of, [10]
• ——, Shamrock, [81], [83]
• ——, Sheepshanks Shortening. [54]
• ——, Shortening, [58]
• ——, Shroud, [72], [73]
• ——, Single Diamond, [72]
• ——, —— Pitcher, [77]
• ——, Slip Eye, [24]
• ——, Slipper Ring, [43]
• ——, Spritsail Sheet, [73]
• ——, Staffordshire, [16]
• ——, Stationer’s, [42]
• ——, Stopper, [15], [67]
• ——, Tack, [69], [70]
• ——, Thumb, [20]
• ——, Tom Fool’s, [77]
• ——, Treble Lark’s Head Ring, [47]
• ——, Trick, [18], [79], [83]–87
• ——, True, [17]
• ——, “True-Lover’s,” [79]
• ——, Turk’s Head, [75]–77
• ——, Twist Shortening, [53]
• ——, Wall, [66], [69], [110], [111]
• ——, Weaver’s, [20]
• ——, Wedding, [59]
• ——, Whipcord, [23]
• Knotting, Material for Practising, [13]
  
• Ladder Chocks, [116]
• —— Rope, [116]–121
• —— Rounds, [116]
• Lancashire System of Splicing Cotton Ropes, [93]
• Langs-laid Rope, [147]
• Lanyard, [104]
• Lark Boat Ring Knot, [44]
• —— Ring Knot with Crossed Ends, [46]
• Lark’s Head Ring Knot, [45]–47
• —— —— —— —— Stoppered, [45]
• Lashing, Chain, for Poles and Ledgers, [131]
• ——, Cross, [60]
• ——, Regulating, [41]
• ——, Rope, for Poles and Ledgers, [131]
• Lashings and Ties, [59]–65
• —— for Scaffolding, [130]–132
• Ledger and Pole Lashings, [131]
• Left-handed Eye-Splicing, [141]
• —— Rope Splicing, [135]
• Link Socket, [150]
• Long-splicing, [91], [135], [143], [146]
• Loop Shortening, [52]
• Lovers’ Knot, True, [79]
• Lubber’s Knot, [18]
  
• Magnus Hitch, [33]
• Mainstay, [109]
• Mallet, Serving, used in Rope Splicing, [102], [137]
• Manharness Ring Knot, [49]
• Manilla-grass Rope, [10]
• Manrope Knot, [69], [112]
• Marlinespike for Rope Splicing, [91]
• —— Hitch, [39]
• Marling, [102]
• “Marrying” Wire Rope Splice, [135]
• Mason’s Whipping, [68]
• Mat Making, [121]–124
• ——, Sword, [122]
• ——, Thrumming, [122]
• Matthew Walker Knot, [70], [71]
• Mesh Stick used in Hammock Making, [125]
• Meshes, Chain of, [127]
• Meshing in Hammock Making, [126]
• Middle Seizing, [96]
• Midshipman’s Hitch, [39]
• Mooring Knot, [49]
• Mousing a Hook, [106]
  
• Necklace Tie, [60]
• Netter’s Knot, [20]
• Netting of Hammocks, [125]
• —— Needle, [125]
• “Nettles,” [105]
• Nippering, [62]
  
• Openhand Eye Knot, [25]
• —— Knot, [19]
• Overhand Knot, [15]
• —— Knot Joining two Ropes, [21]
  
• Packing, [62]
• —— Knot, [60]
• Parcelling, [100]
• Pilot Ladder, [120]
• Pitcher Knot, Double, [79]
• —— ——, Single, [77]
• Pin, Belaying, [103]
• Pointing End of Yoke Line, [112]
• —— Rope, [107], [108]
• Pole and Ledger Lashings, [131]
• Portuguese Knot, [61], [109]
• Pricker used in Rope Splicing, [91]
• Putlogs, Lashings for, [131]
• Puzzle Knot, [79]
  
• Quarter Gaskets, [97]
  
• Racking Hitch, [36]
• Réaumur Experiments on the Strengths of Ropes, [13]
• Reef Knot, [17]
• Regulating Lashing, [41]
• Right-handed Splicing, [135]–140
• Ring Knots, [43]–52
• Riveted Flat Rope Sockets, [155]
• Riveting Spikes, [155]
• Rolling Hitch, [35]
• Rope, Cable-laid, [10]
• —— Formation, [9]
• ——, Four-stranded, [10]
• —— Ladder, [116]–121
• —— Making, Principle of, [12], [13]
• —— Materials, [10]
• ——, Method of Measuring, [11]
• ——, Sizes of, [11]
• —— Sockets, Flat, [155]
• —— Splicing, [89]–95
• ——, Three-stranded, [10]
• ——, Weight of, [12]
• Ropeyarn Heart, Fender with, [105]
• Rosette Knot, [19]
• Round Seizing, [96], [97]
• Rungs, Rope Ladder, [116], [118]
• Running Bowline, [28]
• —— Eye Knot, [24]
• —— Knot, [29], [30]
  
• Sailors’ Backhanded Ring Knot, [48]
• —— Knot, [17], [18]
• —— Ring Knot, [49]
• Sally of Bellringer’s Knot, [88]
• Scaffolding, Ties and Lashings for, [130]–132
• Seizing, [96]
• ——, End, [96]
• ——, Eye, [96]
• ——, Middle, [96]
• ——, Round, [96], [97]
• —— Stuff, [11]
• ——, Throat, [96]
• —— Wire, [140]
• Selvagee, [98], [99]
• Sennit, [97]
• ——, French, [97]
• Serving, [102]
• —— Mallet, [103], [137]
• —— Wire Rope, [136]
• Set-hammer for Tightening Rope, [154]
• Shamrock Knot, [81], [83]
• Shear-legs, [109]
• Sheave of Hemp Rope, [12]
• —— —— Wire Rope, [12]
• Sheepshanks Shortening Knot, [54]–56
• —— Toggled Knot Shortening, [57]
• Sheet Bend, [37], [38]
• —— Knot, Spritsail, [73]
• Shoeing Wire Rope, [150]
• “Shortenings,” [52]
• ——, Bend, [52]
• ——, Loop, [52]
• Shroud Knot, [72], [73]
• —— ——, French, [73]
• Shroud-laid Rope, [11]
• Single Diamond Knot, [72]
• —— Pitcher Knot, [77]
• Sizes of Ropes, [11], [13]
• Sling for Can or Jar, [80], [81]
• Slinging Hammocks, [125]
• —— Plank for use as Stage, [132]
• Slip Eye Knot, [24]
• Slipper Ring Knot, [43]
• Slippery Hitch, [37]
• Socket, [150]
• —— Cramp, [155]
• ——, Fitting Hooped, [155]
• ——, Flat Rope, [155]
• ——, Hooped Winding Rope, [150]
• ——, Link, [150]
• ——, Solid, with Closed Ends, [154]
• ——, ——, with Open Ends, [154]
• Socketing Wire Ropes, [133]–155
• Splice, Cable, [92], [93]
• ——, Cut, [92]
• ——, Eye, [92]
• ——, Long, [91]
• ——, Short, [89]
• ——, Wire Rope Eye, [134], [135]
• ——, —— —— Long, [134]
• ——, —— —— Short, [134]
• Splicing, [89]–95
• —— Cotton Ropes, [93]
• —— Grommet, [93]–95, [98]
• ——, Long, [143]–146
• ——, Method of Starting, [141], [142]
• —— Wire Ropes, [133]–155
• Spikes, Riveting, [155]
• —— for Splicing, [148]
• Spritsail Sheet Knot, [73]
• Staffordshire Knot, [16]
• Stages, Painters’, [132]
• Stationer’s Knot, [42]
• Steel Wire Rope, Safe Load on, [12]
• Stern Ladder, [116]
• Stick, Mesh, used in Hammock Making, [125]
• Stopper Knot, [15], [67]
• Stranded Ropes, [10], [11]
• “Strands,” [10]
• Stropping Block, [107]
• Swage, Top, [149]
• Sword Mat, [122]
  
• Tack Knot, [69], [70]
• Thimble, [106]
• ——, Splicing, into Crane Rope, [141]
• ——, ——, —— Trawl-warp, [141]
• Thread, Strength of, [13]
• Three-stranded Rope, [10], [11]
• Throat Seizing, [96]
• Thrumming Mats, [122]
• Thumb Knot, [20]
• Ties and Lashings, [59]–65
• —— for Scaffolding, [130]–132
• Timber Hitch, [32]
• Toe Chock for Rope Ladder, [116]
• Toggle, [104]
• Tom Fool’s Knot, [77]
• Topsail Halliard Bend, [35]
• Top-swage, [149]
• Trawl-warp, Splicing Thimble into, [141]
• Treble Lark’s Head Ring Knot, [47]
• Trick Knot, [18], [79], [83]–87
• True Knot, [17]
• True-lover’s Knot, [79]
• Tuckers or Spikes for Splicing, [148]
• Tufting of Bellringer’s Knot, [88]
• Turk’s Head Knot, [75]–77
• Twist Shortening Knot, [53]
  
• Wall Knot, [66], [69], [110], [111]
• Weaver’s Knot, [20]
• Wedding Knot, [59]
• Wedging Scaffold Lashings, [132]
• Weight of Ropes, [12]
• Whipping, [61], [62]
• ——, West Country, [62], [63]
• Whipcord Knot, [23]
• Wire Rope Clamp, [149]
• —— ——, Safe Load on, [12]
• —— —— Sheave of, [12]
• —— —— Socketing, [149]–155
• —— —— Splicing, [133]–149
• —— ——, Weight of, [12]
• Worming, [99]
  
• “Yarns,”[10]
• Yoke Lines, [109]
• —— ——, Fastening Off, [115]
• —— ——, Pointing End of, [112]

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Transcriber’s Notes.

1. Silently corrected simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors.

2. It has been necessary, in this ebook edition, for some of the illustrations to be moved to a different page. The page numbers, in the List of Illustrations, have been amended.

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