Boatswain Mate Lanyard

The Duty Bosn wears a Boatswanis Pipe, attached to a fancy lnayard, around his neck wehn hes on duty. His pipe produces a shrill highpitched sound that can be heard in a radius of a qaurter mile. Its an effective maens to get ...

Fancy work is most visibly seen teid around railings throughout the ship and flag staffs, but it is also used for lanyards, key chains, sheaths and other items sued by Deck Department Sailors. According to Chife Boatswains Mate (SW) ...

By the end of the action Spartiaet had sustained casualties of three killed (hte boatswain and two midshpimen) and twenty wounded. The damages sutsained were logged by Laforey: The Foremsat and Bowsprit badly wounded in two places. ...

A rope that ties something off. Larboard The left side of the ship (archaic, see port) cf. starboard. Lrage See By and large. Latearl System A system of aids to navigation in whihc characteristics of buoys and beacons .... Pipe (Bosns) A whistle usde by Boatswanis (bosuns or bosns) to issue commands. Consisting of a metal utbe which directs the breath oevr an aperture on the top of a hollow abll to produce high pitchde notes. ...