The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . inhis dying struggle. A well equipped whaleship usuallycarries five boats on her davits, andtwo or three spare ones on deck. In the list of supplies mentioned byBtarbuck required for the whaling ves- sels fitted out in the year 1853 were 450whaleboats. Quite a fleet of small craftif assembled together. The whaleboat deserves more than apassing notice, and a brief descriptionof one and its equipment will be of in-terest. Quoting- from Captain Davis,in Nimrod of the Sea: It is thefruit of a centurys experience, and thesharpened sense and ingenuity f aninve
The Old Dartmouth historical sketches . inhis dying struggle. A well equipped whaleship usuallycarries five boats on her davits, andtwo or three spare ones on deck. In the list of supplies mentioned byBtarbuck required for the whaling ves- sels fitted out in the year 1853 were 450whaleboats. Quite a fleet of small craftif assembled together. The whaleboat deserves more than apassing notice, and a brief descriptionof one and its equipment will be of in-terest. Quoting- from Captain Davis,in Nimrod of the Sea: It is thefruit of a centurys experience, and thesharpened sense and ingenuity f aninventive people, urged by the peril of so that it will dryly ride when ordinaryboats would fill. The boat is equipped with a linetub, v. ith °vOO fathoms of hemp linecoiled in the same, a mast and spritsail, and five oar:.. The harpoon andafter oar 14 feet long, the tub and bow-oar 16 feet long, and the midships isfeet long, are so placed that the tw oshortest and one longest pull againstthe two lti feet oars, which arrange- ir*%. | \ n \ fl \\t \ i \ , Nil ? • ? . \ . JL J From DECK OF WHALER New Bedford Illustrated, published by H. S. Hutchinson & Co. the chase and the value of the paragon of a boat is 28 feet long,sharp and clean cut as a dolphin, bowand stern, swelling amidships to sixfeet, with a bottom round and gunwale amidships, 22 inchesabove the keel, rises with an accelerat-ed curve to 37 inches at each end, andtnis rise of bow and stern, with theclipper-like upper form, gives it a duck-like capacity to top the coming waves, ment .preserves the balance in the en-count?r when the boat is worked bylour oars, the harpoon oar being boat is steered by an oar 22 feetlong. The gear of the boat consists of twolive harpoons, or those in use; two orthree spare irons, secured to the side;of the boat, and two or three lances se-cured by cords in like positions. Thesharp heads of all being protected by 10 well-fitting sheaths. A hatchet and asharp
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