Fig. 52 is the “capstan knot.” To make this, cross the end of the rope after it is through the ring, bring it round the standing part, through the first bight and through its own bight, thus forming a sort of figure-of-eight knot.
Another “sailor’s knot,” composed of two half-hitches round the standing part of the rope, is shown by Fig. 53. This is one of the most useful and easily-made knots known, and is used as a mooring knot.
Fig. 54.—Gunner’s Knot.
A “gunner’s knot” (Fig. 54) is simply a “carrick bend” (Fig. 34, p. 36), made with the two ends of a rope after it has been passed through two rings. Gunners themselves call this a “delay knot.”
Fig. 55.—Beginning Artillery Knot.
Fig. 56.—Artillery Knot Finished.
