ROPY

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ROPY PLAN MIOSNIP SECTION.
on the British shores. Many vessels are cast every year on the rocky parts of the coasts, under cliffs, where no

life

LIFE

-boat could be of service. In such places the rocket alone is available.
The rocket apparatus consists of five

principal

PRINCIPAL

parts, viz. the rocket, the rocket-line, the whip, the hawser and the sling

life

LIFE

-buoy. The mode of working it is as follows. A rocket, having a light line attached to it, is fired over the wreck. By means of this line the wrecked

crew

CREW (sometimes explained as a sea
term
- TERM
of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th
century
- CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)
in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)

haul out the whip, which is a

double

or endless line, rove through a

block

with a tail attached to it. The tail-

block

, having been detached from the rocket-line, is fastened to a mast, or other portion of the wreck, high above the water. By means of the whip the rescuers haul off the hawser, to which is hung the travel-ling or sling life-buoy. When one end of the hawser has been made fast to the mast, about 18 in. above the whip, and its other end

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