Nautical Dictionary by Arthur Young

Author:Arthur Young [Young, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2020-02-04T21:00:00+00:00

LIMBER-CLEARER. A small chain, which in some vessels is rove fore and aft through the limber-passage, in order to clear it when necessary by hauling the chain backwards and forwards.

LIMBER-HOLES. See Limbers.

LIMBER-KENTLEDGE. Pigs of iron fitted to go down between the floor-timbers as ballast to lower the ship's center of gravity; they also serve the purpose of limber-boards in preventing dirt from getting down into the limbers.

LIMBER-PASSAGE. See description of Limbers.

LIMBERS, or Limber-holes. Square holes beneath a vessel's floor-timbers on each side of the keel; forming with the open spaces between the ends of the first futtocks and each side of the keel a channel by which water may run towards the pumps throughout the length of the ship. The channel thus formed is sometimes called the Limber-passage, or simply the Limbers.

The limber-holes are in some parts of Scotland called Draw-bellows, and hence the feather-edged pieces of board, which in many cases are put on to form these holes (instead of cutting into the floor-timbers, which would tend to weaken them), are there termed Draw bellows-boards. Instead of using these feather-edged pieces, however, the water-course or limber holes are more commonly formed by a groove cut out of the inside of the garboard shake, or out of the chock, which is generally required (especially in sharp-bottomed vessels) to make good each floor-timber to its form at the angle next the keel.

LIMBER-STRAKE. The first plank of the ceiling next the keelson, wrought over the lower ends of the first futtocks, and for their security bolted over them to the floors. 1t is sometimes called the futtock-plank or foot-waling. See the article Ceiling.

LINCH-PINS, in Gunnery, pins through the axle-tree of a gun-carriage, to prevent the wheel coming off.

LINE. The order of battle. A ship of the line, or line-of-battle ship, is one of sufficient force (viz. from 120 to 74 guns) to have a station in the line of battle. Small ropes get the name of Lines.

In Shipbuilding certain LINES are used in the plans for determining the shape of the vessel's body. These are enumerated under the title Shipbuilding. See also Equator.

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