Part 17

Comeings

Are Comeing Carlings, that go Fore and Aft on the middle and upper Deck, as far as where the Grateings are; the Midship Edge has a Rabbit for the Grateings to lodge in, and the Edge is as much above the Deck, as the Deck is thick, to stop the Water. The Hatchways on the Gun Deck has Comeings round them, but Comeing Carlings is only Plank sayd flat on the Deck, so thick as to turn the Water.

Commanders

Are used by the Riggers or Seamen, with which they drive in the Fidds for Spliceing Cables, &c.

Compasses

Azimuth

Is an Instrument made in a large Brass Box, with Imbers and a broad Limb, having Ninety Degrees diagonally divided, with an Index and Thread to take the Sun's Amplitude or Azimuth, in order to find the Difference between the Magnetical Meridian and the Sun's Meridian, which shews the Variation of the Compass.

Brass Box

They stand in the Bittacle, that the Men at the Steering Wheel may see to keep the Ship in her right Course.

Hanging

Flag Officers are generally furnished with them to hang up in their great Cabbins.

Cond

Is to Guide or Conduct a Ship in her right Course; he that Conds gives the Word of Direction to the Men at the Steering Wheel how to Steer.

Cook

Is a Warrant Officer that dresses the Ship's Companys Victuals.

Cookroom

Is variously seated, generally in the Fore-Castle, but in some great Ships it is on the Middle Deck, and in lesser on a Plat-form under the Deck.

Cordage

Is in general all the Ropes belonging to the Standing or Running Rigging of a Ship, and is also distinguished by,

Cablelaid

Is made with nine Strands, (i. e.) the first three Strands are laid slack, and then three of them being closed together makes a Cable or Cablet; the same for Tacks, but they are laid tapering.

Hawserlaid

Is made only with three Strands.

Stays

Are Cablelaid, but made with four Strands as Cables are with three, with an Addition of an Heart which goes through the Center of them.

Counter

Is the arching Part of the Stern above the Wing Transom, and the lower is from the Wing Transom to the Upper Deck, and the other is from the Upper Deck to the lower Edge of the Ward-room or Great Cabbin, the Projecture of which, is lower almost the Quadrant of a Circle.

Course