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Actions Displays	Cordage and Cables : Their Uses at Sea Remove from selection Add to selection TitleCordage and Cables : Their Uses at Sea Author P. J. (Captain) Stopford (author)‎ EditionSecond edition, reprinted Place of publicationGlasgow PublisherBrown, Son & Ferguson, LTD. Year of publication1946 Paginationviii, 116 p. IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams Dimensions14.2 x 21.4 cm Materialbook Class numberVK541 .S76 1946 NotesThe International Guild of Knot Tyers Collection Subjectseamanship - handbooks, manuals, etc., ropes, knots and splices, cable, anchors This work, which is very fully illustrated, covers the manufacture of all kinds of rope, including wire rope, their care, and full description of bends, hitches and knots and splices; pointing, seizing, etc. Sennit and netmaking and mending are fully dealt with. All about blocks, tackle and purchases, derricks, boat falls and slings.

TitleCordage and Cables : Their Uses at Sea

Author

EditionSecond edition, reprinted

Place of publicationGlasgow

Year of publication1946

Paginationviii, 116 p.

IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and diagrams

Dimensions14.2 x 21.4 cm

Materialbook

Class numberVK541 .S76 1946

NotesThe International Guild of Knot Tyers Collection

This work, which is very fully illustrated, covers the manufacture of all kinds of rope, including wire rope, their care, and full description of bends, hitches and knots and splices; pointing, seizing, etc. Sennit and netmaking and mending are fully dealt with. All about blocks, tackle and purchases, derricks, boat falls and slings.