The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . gement. Nelson made a break in this continuity ofa mediaeval custom by painting his hulls black, with ayellow strake along each tier of ports, and the lids ofthe port-holes black also; and even in this twentiethcentury, though white has been long since substitutedfor yellow, many of our big sailing ships engaged inocean trade present a similar appearance. Iron was introduced to a very small extent for minorsupports, though it was not until 1829 that iron ship-building really began, and after that ten years at leastwere needed to
The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution . gement. Nelson made a break in this continuity ofa mediaeval custom by painting his hulls black, with ayellow strake along each tier of ports, and the lids ofthe port-holes black also; and even in this twentiethcentury, though white has been long since substitutedfor yellow, many of our big sailing ships engaged inocean trade present a similar appearance. Iron was introduced to a very small extent for minorsupports, though it was not until 1829 that iron ship-building really began, and after that ten years at leastwere needed to show its value for a ships hull. Theold hempen cable was not abolished until) the first halfof the nineteenth century, when the modern chain wasre-adopted: we cannot say introduced^ since it wasalready employed during Caesar^s time, as we sawin an earlier chapter. Although the triangular head-sails were now, and had been for years, thoroughlyestablished instead of the old sprit-topsail, yet thesprit-sail yard remained, and the sprit-sail (set, as before, 102 I. Rodney This^ shows the midship section and disposition of the guns of Rodney whichwas built in 1833, and is interesting as affording some idea of the last wooden wallsof England. Notice the amount of tumble-home which the top-sides of the hullpossess. THE SAILING SHIP below the bowsprit) was also retained for some timein the navy, and much longer in the mercantile are still living many sailors who remember beingshipmates with it in the merchant service, where it wasknown under the nickname of Jimmy Green.* Thebowsprit now becomes a three-part spar, consisting ofbowsprit, jib-boom, and flying-boom, and to counteractthe upward strain a small spar fixed at right anglesto and below the bowsprit, and called a dolphin-striker,was added. Studding-sails were kept in use as they hadbeen for centuries, but they seem to have disappearedwhen the clippers departed from the sea. These wereadditional sails se
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