Section II. After Learneing of Bookes, succeeds the art of Navigation, wherevnto pertaineth all sorts of shipps and boates, with their seuerall parts, as their Hulls, sterne, stemme, mast, Tops, Tacklings, sailes, Oares, cables, Anchors and the like.
Tumbrel boat
19. He beareth a Tumbrell
boate, or flat bottomed boate, or Turnell
boate, opened at one end. This
kind of boate is for the conveying of
cowes or horses, or milk maides ouer
small and narrow yet deepe riuers: it is
made with a flat bottome, and two
boards for the sides, so that it may be
termed a flote boate.
Skuller
20. He beareth a Skuller, or
a Thamise boate. it is a boate
sharpe at both ends, soe that it will goe
either end first as the waterman or
Roares please to guide it.
Skuller
Image from proof plateIn the cheife I haue caused an other boate of this kind to be engrauen, which is not so mounting in the ends as the fore said, but euen with the sides.
Coracle
21. He beareth a coricle,
or Codicle, or a flote guider.
This is a kind of light baskett boate,
being made of nothing but Lathes, and
Owsier twiggs, platted about them; the
out side being couered with a Leather
Hyde, which holdeth out all water, a
man sitting in the midle of it with a
long staffe with a padle, or made broad
at both ends, by moueing the water with
it, on one side after the othere: will
guide it where he pleaseth. It is chiefly
used by the Welsh in guideing any flotte,
or the like downe a riuer, and after he
hath done will carry it away vpon his back.
Iceland boat
He beareth an Island or Lapland boat
Lighter boat
23. He beareth a Lighter boate.
... I hold
this to be the best termed, a boate fore
shortned; or a cock boate, a Fisher
boate, foreshortned.
These
boates are called Skiffes and shallops,
and do belong to ships, for to carry in
and out things quickly, for they are
small boates and do hoiste away lightly.
Cock boat
24. He beareth
two men face to face roweing
of a cock boate.
Bridge boat
25. He beareth a bridge
layd on two
boates.
By this meanes great
Armies are conveyed ouer large Riuers,
by the helpe of Boards and plankes,
layd ouer and made fast to boates.
Boatmans hook
26 He beareth a boate
mans hooke ...
Oar
... surmounted
of an oare.
The Oare by beating the
water forceth the boate forward to the
place desired: the hooks holds it close
to the shoare tell all be unboated.
Long boat
27. He beareth a long boate
haueing a tire of Ordinance, or
great guns or cannons.
These are lowe built boates, but of great length, which in sea fights and at other tymes, will strike to the sides of great shippes, and with their guns, (which ly almost euen with the water) will either suddenly surprice the same or sinke it. Some terme it a Ferry boate, but then it is to haue no shew of guns in it. they are also termed ship boates, and is the very modell of a ship, and is built in part in all things answerable to those which a ship requires, both for sailing and beareing a sail, and they beare the same names as doe all the parts of a ship vnder water, as Rake, Run, stem, stern, Bow, Bilge, &c. for it is euer intended to be able to carry forth, and weigh her sheat anchor; and be able to liue in any grown sea, if the waters be some tymes Freed, and vnlesse the sea Break very much. The thaughts and the seats they sit on to rowe and the Thowles are the pins in the side of the boate aloft, by the gunwale, against which the Oares rowe. The Tiller is the rudder staffe:
Oars
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In the sinister base is two Oare.
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Dove and Noahs ark
28.
He beareth a dove with an olive branch in his beake, flying into the window of Noahs Arke.
The forme of Noahs Arke
Though in our age we fancie the Arke to be like a ship with an house in it, as the draught here expresseth, yet in very truth it was no such thing; but was both flat bottomed, and top the same ... Gen: 6. 14, 15, 16. and 7. 2, 3 ... it swimed not by sinking into the water, but lay vpon the waters of the flood, Gen: 7. 17, 18... and what prouision is layd in, Dr Wilkins in his vniuersall Character part 2. cha. 5. sect. 4. fol. 162. &c. hath at large giuen an account ...
Mast top
29. He beareth the Top of a
Mast.
Some terme it a peece of a Mast couped, with its top ... all which expressions needeth not, when a mast top is sufficient, for there is no mast in any shippe of warre (as we must conceive this is from) but it hath on the higher end of the mast such a Top, or round top, for sailors to sit and view the coast, or spie land: and that not onely on the great masts, but on their top masts, and Top gallant masts, all which haue their tops.
Sail
30. He beareth the saile of a
ship fixed, or tyed to the yard.
Mr Gwilliams fo. 312 termes them onely sailes, takeing no notice to the saile
yards, to which they are fixt, ...
Sail
He beareth a saile of a ship.
Mast
31. He beareth a Mast,
haueing a yard fixed thereto
with the saile trussed vp.
In a naturall conflict either to strike the saile (that is to let it fall downe) or take down the banner, or vaile the top saile, at the command of an other; is a token of yeelding or submission, which is a thing observed to this day among men of a Naval profession.
Mast and sail
32. He beareth a Mast in base
with its yard, haueing a saile fixed
therevnto and blown out, or windblown, the end or bottom turned or
wrapped around the mast.
Rudder
33. He beareth a Ruther (or
an Helme, or a sterne) of a Ship.
By the Helme doth the Pilot wield the ship, and turn it about at will, notwithstanding the most violent seas, and so necessary is the use of this Instrument, as that without it no ship can be directed to any certaine course, but would be euer more in perill of splitting vpon shoales and Rockes, through the forcible current and surging waues of the seas, and the violence of the blysterous windes.
Anchor
34. He beareth an Anchor.
This stay of a ship, is frequently borne
in coate armour, yea more than any
other thing, I well know.
The Anchor was first made with two Hookes by Anacharsis (as Pliny saith) as is shewed cha.24 num.50. 51. 45. [Refers possibly to Ch. 21 no. 45]
An anchor (in pale saith Mr Gwilliams fo.312) [with] the Timber or crosse peece, borne by the name of Goodreed.
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Anchor
35. He beareth an Anchor
two cabells fixt to the ring, each
crossing and fretting the stock, Beam
and shanck.
The nuce or eye of the cabell which holds the anchor is called the clinch of the cabell, and the roulling of anything about the ring to keep the cabell from galling is termed the pudding of the Anchor.
Grappling hook
36. He beareth a Grapling
Hooke, or Grapnell.
These are of some termed Kedgers.
These are in the nature of an Anchor, being used for gallyes or Boats to ride by: only they differ in forme: for Grapnells haue four flookes, and neuer a stock, for it needs none, being that which way soeuer it falls, two of the flookes do euer hold to the ground.
In men of warr, light ones are used to be flung into a ship to catch hold on some of the grateings, railes, gunwailes, or the like, and so haueing a chaine made fast to it, the two shipps are lasht fast togather.
There is also an other small sort of the grapnells with three hookes, but not broad like flooks, with which sea men use to sweep for hawsers, or small cabells. Some call these Anchors double, or treble pointed, or flooked.
Catch anchor
37. He beareth a Catch Anchor.
It is by the Netherlanders called a
Werpen Ancker, a cast Anchor because
where soeuer it is cast it takes hold.
...
Of some anciently called a cobiron, or
cobhook.
Anchor
38. He beareth an Anchor
reuersed, the Nutt (or Nowy) in the
midle of the Beame.
Anchor
In the dexter and sinister sides of
this square are two other kinds of
Anchors reuersed.
[ Absent from the proof plate but the image shown is drawn onto the plate beside this square.]
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