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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of Ships at Work, by Mary Elting Folsom
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
-almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
-re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
-with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license
-
-
-Title: Ships at Work
-
-Author: Mary Elting Folsom
-
-Illustrator: Manning De V. Lee
-
-Release Date: September 2, 2017 [EBook #55476]
-
-Language: English
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-Character set encoding: UTF-8
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-*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHIPS AT WORK ***
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-Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Dave Morgan, Chuck Greif
-and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
-http://www.pgdp.net
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- [Illustration:
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- SHIPS
- _AT WORK_
-
- MARY ELTING
-
- _ILLUSTRATED BY_
- MANNING DEV. LEE
- ]
-
- [Illustration]
-
- [Illustration]
-
- Copyright 1946, 1953 by Duenewald Printing Corporation.
- Lithographed in the United States of America.
-
-
-
-
- SHIPS AT WORK
-
-
- [Illustration]
-
- [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
- SHIPS
- AT WORK
-
- _By Mary Elting_
-
- [Illustration]
-
- ILLUSTRATED BY
- MANNING DE V. LEE
-
- GARDEN CITY BOOKS
-
- GARDEN CITY, N.Y.
-
- [Illustration]
-
-
-
-
- [Illustration]
-
-
-SHIPS AND MEN
-
-A ship is a marvellous thing. It took ships--and the men who sail
-them--to circle the world and tie it all together into one round ball.
-Brave seamen from a thousand ports have faced storms and unknown
-dangers, first to make the world a bigger place for people to live in,
-then to bring all people close together.
-
-No matter how dangerous the voyage nor what she carries, a ship is
-always “she” to a seagoing man. He never calls a freighter or a tanker
-or any large vessel a boat. Only shoreside people who have never been to
-sea make the mistake of calling a ship a boat. And shoreside people
-never know the excitement and fun--and the long, hard work--that the
-skillful men of the sea know every day of their lives.
-
-
-STANDING WATCH
-
-Jim is a sailor on a freighter carrying cargo across the Atlantic Ocean.
-Every morning at half-past three, someone comes into the forecastle.
-That’s the seamen’s name for their sleeping quarters. They pronounce it
-“foke-sull.”
-
-Jim mumbles a little. Then the light goes on. The sailor who has waked
-him wants to be sure he doesn’t go back to sleep. With half-open eyes,
-Jim sees his clothes hanging from hooks. Back and forth they sway as the
-ship pitches and rolls. Jim is so used to sleeping in rough weather that
-he hadn’t even noticed when a storm blew up in the night.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Now he’s wide awake, and so are the other men in the forecastle. Jim
-swings his legs over the side of his bunk, in a hurry to get dressed in
-well-washed blue dungarees, a turtleneck sweater instead of a shirt,
-thick socks and a heavy woolen pea coat. That’s a sailor’s winter jacket
-with pockets that slant in sideways. He makes sure his sharp knife is
-dangling from a snap on his belt. No telling when it might come in
-handy. Then he sticks a knitted blue stocking cap on his head and
-reaches for his fleece-lined mittens.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Jim wants to be warm. He knows the wind will be sharp, even though his
-ship is headed for the warm Mediterranean Sea. It’s wintertime and still
-cold out on the Atlantic Ocean.
-
-Jim and the three men who share his bunkroom are ready for work--almost
-ready. First they go down the passageway to the mess, which is their
-word for dining room. There they have coffee from a big steaming urn
-that is always kept full and hot. In another minute Jim steps out onto
-the leeward side of the deck--the side away from the wind. Although he’s
-in a hurry, he waits there sheltered from the wind for a few minutes
-while his eyes get used to the dark. Jim is going to stand his watch.
-That means he will work for four hours.
-
-Jim is an AB--an Able Bodied Seaman. An AB works out on deck instead of
-down inside the ship in the engine room or in the kitchen, which he
-calls the galley. All the men who work on a ship are seamen. Only
-deckhands are called sailors. And only those sailors who have passed
-examinations and have been at sea for a certain length of time are AB’s.
-The other sailors are called ordinary seamen or ordinaries for short.
-
-As soon as his eyes can see in the dark, Jim walks toward the bow which
-is the front of the ship. As the deck rises and falls and tilts under
-his feet, he manages from long practice, to keep his balance, but he
-also slides one hand along the rail on top of the bulwark, a kind of low
-wall that runs all around the deck.
-
-In good weather he would go to the bow and stand there, watching for
-anything there might be in the ocean ahead. But tonight waves may splash
-over the bow. An unexpected wave can knock a man down or even wash him
-overboard. It will be safer high up in the crow’s nest above the deck.
-Besides he can see farther from up there. So Jim climbs to the little
-enclosed platform high on the foremast.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-In a very bad storm Jim would not go outside. He would stand watch in
-the wheelhouse. This is a room with a big window high above the deck in
-the part of the ship called the house. The room gets its name because
-the wheel that steers the ship is in it.
-
-Jim knows it is good manners always to be a little early when you go to
-take the place of another seaman whose watch is over. So he doesn’t
-waste any time as he scrambles up the steel rungs in the ladder on the
-mast.
-
-He pokes his head through the hole in the floor of the crow’s nest.
-There he finds Juan, who is cold and glad enough to climb down and get
-into his warm bunk.
-
-Juan has a telephone strapped on his head. He uses it to talk with the
-third mate, the officer in charge of the ship who works in the
-wheelhouse. When Juan sees Jim, he says into the telephone, “Crow’s nest
-to wheelhouse--being properly relieved, sir.” Now the mate, listening to
-the loudspeaker in the wheelhouse, knows that Jim is the lookout in the
-crow’s nest.
-
-[Illustration: 4 BELLS]
-
-[Illustration: 5 BELLS]
-
-[Illustration: 6 BELLS]
-
-[Illustration: 7 BELLS]
-
-Jim puts the telephone on his head and leans against the rail around the
-small platform that sways far to one side, then to the other. Soon he
-hears the ship’s bell, a faint sound above the storm--“Ding-ding,
-ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding.” Eight bells. It is exactly four
-o’clock. At four-thirty the bell rings again, just once. Two bells will
-be five o’clock, and so on until eight, when there will be eight bells
-again.
-
-[Illustration: 8 BELLS]
-
-[Illustration: 1 BELL]
-
-[Illustration: 2 BELLS]
-
-[Illustration: 3 BELLS]
-
-For a long time there is nothing for Jim to see but great gray waves
-rising and lifting the ship, and once in a while splashing over the
-decks way down below. Then far ahead and to the right Jim sees a tiny
-speck of light.
-
-[Illustration: Starboard Side]
-
-[Illustration: Port Side]
-
-[Illustration: Harbor Tug With Tow]
-
-[Illustration: Black Coming Straight Toward You]
-
-“Crow’s nest to wheelhouse,” he calls into the phone. “White light two
-points on the starboard bow.” The mate knows from this where to look for
-the light. The diagram on page 16 shows the words Jim will use when he
-tells the mate to look in other directions.
-
-Jim thinks the white light probably comes from another ship. Soon he
-knows it does. He can see two white lights very close together and a
-green light a little below them. He and the mate know that a green light
-is always shown on the right or starboard side of a vessel that’s
-moving. There is no danger. Jim’s ship and the other one are a long way
-apart and are not headed for each other. If Jim saw both a green light
-and a red light with two white lights above them, he would be alarmed.
-This would mean a ship coming straight at him.
-
-[Illustration: Bearings on Port Side Go the Same Way]
-
-Now and then spray from the waves blows all the way to the crow’s nest,
-and Jim is glad of a protecting shield that comes up almost as high as
-his face. But he can feel the wind anyway, and he can hear it roar
-through the rigging. He almost has to shout into the phone so the mate
-can hear him.
-
-The safety of the ship depends on Jim. Even in the darkness he can see a
-great deal from his high perch. He may notice the white foam of waves
-ahead behaving in a strange way. This could be the wreck of a
-half-sunken ship that would tear a hole in his own ship and send her to
-the bottom. If he dozed off, he might fail to sight some danger. So he
-must keep alert every minute. He’s responsible for the lives of all his
-shipmates, and he takes his job seriously.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Jim watches the dark, heaving ocean for two hours. He’s glad when his
-coffee time comes. That’s ten minutes of rest he gets after standing
-watch for two hours. When another lookout comes to the crow’s nest to
-take his place, he warms up in the mess and then goes to the wheelhouse.
-There he works for two hours steering the ship. He stands his watch at
-the wheel.
-
-The wheelhouse is dark, so that the mate can see through the big windows
-anything that the lookout reports. The only light comes from
-instruments, such as the compass. Jim watches the compass to make sure
-he is steering in the right direction. The mate tells him what direction
-the captain has ordered the ship to go. But the compass can’t be their
-only guide.
-
-When you guide yourself by a compass on a hike across a wide meadow, you
-can keep going in a straight line because nothing pushes you to one side
-or the other. But at sea the wind is always pushing against a ship,
-making it slip sideways. Currents in the water push, too. The current
-may be going one way and the wind in another. There are no trees or
-mountains on the ocean to help seamen know exactly where they are. So
-they can use the sun and stars as their guides.
-
-Of course, the sun, stars and moon keep moving. But they travel in an
-orderly way. If a seaman knows the rules about their motion, he can look
-at them through special instruments and figure out where he is. He can
-navigate.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-More than two hundred and fifty years ago, an American boy named
-Nathaniel Bowditch went to sea and discovered that sailors didn’t have
-any good, accurate rules for steering by the stars. He decided to do
-something about the problem. Before long he had worked out a set of
-rules that were so good that every man in his crew could navigate--even
-the cook!
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The mate on Jim’s ship has instruments with which he looks at the sun
-and stars. And he still uses the book that Nathaniel Bowditch wrote so
-long ago.
-
-Besides the wheel and the compass, there are other instruments in the
-wheelhouse. One is the engine room telegraph. The mate uses this when he
-wants the ship to go faster or slower, forward or backward. He moves the
-handle of the telegraph, and a bell jangles in the engine room. Another
-telegraph there, exactly like the one in the wheelhouse, shows the
-engineer at what speed the ship should go. To let the mate know he has
-received the order, the engineer sends the same signal back on the
-telegraph, and a bell in the wheelhouse jangles, too.
-
-By eight o’clock, when it is daylight, Jim’s watch is over. He goes
-below, as seamen say, and sits down with his messmates--all the others
-in the crew who aren’t on watch--for a big breakfast of orange juice,
-bacon, eggs and flapjacks. Then he goes to sleep.
-
-A little before noon he is up again. The storm was not a bad one. The
-sun is shining, and it is warm out on deck. Jim has all afternoon until
-four o’clock to himself. This is how he spends it: First he gets a
-bucket of cold water and puts it under a little faucet that brings up
-steam from the engine room. He runs steam into the water, and it’s hot
-in a few seconds. Out on the afterdeck, sailors have rigged up a
-washboard.
-
-Jim spreads his dirty clothes on the board and scrubs them with a brush
-and soap and his steam-heated water. Seamen do a lot of washing. They
-like to keep their clothes clean. Often they do their own mending, too.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-While Jim’s clothes dry on a regular clothesline on the afterdeck, he
-gets out his ditty bag which holds all kinds of odds and ends, including
-needles and thread and a sailor’s palm. The palm is what a sailor uses
-instead of a thimble for pushing a big needle through heavy canvas. In
-the old days when ships had sails to be mended, these palms were very
-necessary, but nowadays most sailors only use them the way Jim does. He
-is making a sea bag to take the place of his old one that has worn out.
-The sea bag is his trunk. He carries it on his shoulder whenever he
-changes ships.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-While Jim sews, he sings, and other seamen who are off watch sing too.
-One of them plays a banjo, and another has a harmonica. Some of the
-songs are the ones you hear any day on the radio, and others are songs
-that seamen themselves have made up.
-
-These sailor songs are called chanteys--pronounced shantys. On old
-sailing vessels men sang them as they worked together, and the rhythm of
-their work set the rhythm of the music. Here is a chantey that helped
-them pull together on the rope that lifted a sail:
-
- Way! Haul away! We’ll haul away the bowline.
- Way! Haul away! We’ll haul away, Joe.
-
-In those days, before there were engines to do work, men used a
-hand-turned machine called a capstan to raise the anchor or tighten
-heavy lines. They turned it round and round by pushing against long bars
-called capstan bars. As they pushed, they sang:
-
- Yo, heave ho! Round the capstan go.
- Heave, men, with a will. Tramp, and stamp it still!
- The anchor must be weighed, the anchor must be weighed.
- Yo-ho! Heave ho! Yo-ho! Heave ho!
-
-Now, while the singing goes on, Jim takes his turn at having a haircut.
-For a barber’s chair he uses a bitt. That’s a round piece of steel that
-sticks up out of the deck at just the right height. It’s used at times
-for holding big ropes that seamen call hawsers.
-
-The barber is a man from the black gang. That means he works in the
-engine room. When he is off watch, he likes to make a little extra money
-cutting hair. So he puts a sheet around Jim and starts to work.
-Chiquita, the ship’s cat, takes a playful swipe at a dangling corner of
-the sheet, and then goes off in search of a rat that may have come
-aboard in port.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The barber has pictures tattooed on his forearms, and Jim laughs as he
-watches them. On one arm is a picture of an old sailing ship. As the
-barber’s muscles move, they make the ship look as if wind is blowing on
-the sails. On the other arm is a beautiful lady chasing butterflies.
-When the barber opens and closes the scissors, the lady looks as if she
-is dancing after the butterflies.
-
-Just before four o’clock, Jim goes to mess again. Then he’s on watch for
-four more hours to put in the rest of his eight hours of work in a
-twenty-four hour day. He stands lookout again for two hours and takes
-the wheel for two more. Now his day is done.
-
-
-SEA LANGUAGE
-
-When Jim first went to sea, he found that seamen speak a language of
-their own. A floor is always a deck. A partition between rooms is a
-bulkhead. A ceiling is the overhead. Stairs are always a ladder. The
-opening onto a deck at the head of the steps is a companionway. Almost
-all ropes are called lines.
-
-One day another seaman said to Jim: “The bosun wants you to break out
-the handy billy in the forepeak and take it aft to Chips. He’s abaft the
-mizzenmast.” This is what all those words mean:
-
-The bosun is a man who acts as foreman, giving orders to deckhands.
-“Break out” means “take from its regular storage place.” The handy billy
-is a combination of small wheels called blocks with a line running
-around them. It is handy for moving heavy weights. The forepeak is a
-storeroom under the main deck at the bow where the bosun keeps tools and
-equipment. Chips is the ship’s carpenter. Aft means toward the stern of
-the ship, and abaft means “behind, in the direction of the stern.” The
-mizzenmast is the third mast, counting from bow to stern.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Jim also had to learn that anything toward the bow of the ship is
-forward. Anything toward the middle is amidships, and anything crosswise
-is athwart or thwartships. Anything on the windy side of a ship is to
-windward. (A good sailor never spits to windward.) Anything on the side
-away from the wind is to leeward--pronounced “loo-urd.” When Jim goes up
-on deck he goes topside; when he climbs a mast, he goes aloft.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration: Accommodation Ladder]
-
-Jim had to learn the commands that the mate gives him when he is at the
-wheel steering the ship. Helm is another word for the wheel, and
-helmsman is the man who steers. (On some ships, Jim would not steer at
-all. Steering is often the special job of AB’s called quartermasters who
-don’t do much of anything else.)
-
-[Illustration: Jacob’s Ladder]
-
-Suppose the mate says to Jim, “Mind your rudder.” That means Jim must
-steer carefully or get ready for a new order. “Steady as you go” means
-keep on going just as you are.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The wheelhouse is sometimes called the pilot house. The pilot is a man
-who specializes in guiding ships in and out of harbors. A small boat
-brings him out from shore. Usually he climbs aboard on an accommodation
-ladder, a whole flight of stairs which is lowered from a deck. But
-sometimes he has to climb a Jacob’s ladder, which is simply wooden steps
-fastened to ropes that hang down the ship’s side.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The pictures explain some more words Jim had to learn. A pier or a wharf
-is a platform sticking out into the water. Ships tie up alongside it.
-Seamen sometimes call a pier a dock, but a dock is really the water
-between piers.
-
-A hatch or hatchway is an opening in the deck of a vessel. People can go
-down a hatch, and so can cargo. Big strong poles called booms raise and
-lower cargo through hatches. Booms are attached to single masts on some
-ships; on others, to pairs of posts called king posts or Samson posts or
-goal posts. When seamen fasten heavy layers of canvas over the hatches,
-they say they “batten down the hatches.”
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Backstay, stay and shroud are all wire ropes that brace the masts. The
-poop deck is a deck at the stern. Taffrail is the rail around the stern.
-The taffrail log is a kind of speedometer that tells how far the ship
-has travelled. It is made up of a line attached to a little propeller
-which measures miles as it is dragged through the water.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The beam is the widest part of a ship. The keel is the lowest part. The
-bilge is the low, rounded bottom of the ship. Any water that seeps into
-a ship collects there and has to be pumped out. Ballast is a weight of
-some sort, low in a ship to balance her or keep her down in the water so
-her propellers can work when she has no cargo. Draft is the depth of
-water needed to float a vessel. When Jim says his ship “draws twelve
-feet,” he means the keel is twelve feet under water when she is loaded.
-
-[Illustration: Cheepshank knot]
-
-[Illustration: Marlinspike Bowline Double Sheet Bend Carrick Bend]
-
-
-OTHER JOBS
-
-A sailor knows how to do many things besides stand lookout and steer. If
-a line breaks, he can mend it by splicing the ends together with a tool
-called a marlinspike. If lines wear thin, he puts in new ones--and lines
-are needed in a great many places on even the most modern ships.
-
-Sailors know how to tie many different kinds of knots. Each one is good
-for special kinds of work. For instance, a sheepshank is made in a line
-to shorten it. Jim calls a bad knot a gilligan hitch.
-
-Painting is something else that sailors do all the time. On one trip Jim
-painted the mizzenmast. For this job he sat in a bosun’s chair. You’ll
-see a picture of it on page 31. When he works high above the deck he
-always has his paint brush tied to his wrist. Then, if it slips out of
-his hand, it can’t fall and hit anyone below.
-
-All the sailors get their orders from the bosun, whom they call “Boats.”
-That’s because the real spelling of bosun is boatswain. The bosun gets
-his orders from the mate on watch who gets his orders from the captain.
-The captain is in charge of everything. Seamen call him the skipper or
-the master or the Old Man.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The “Chief” (chief engineer) and his three assistant engineers get
-orders from the skipper, too. The firemen in the engine room help the
-engineer carry out the orders. When they are on watch, they look through
-little peep holes into the oil burning furnaces to make sure the fires
-are burning just right. They keep an eye on the steam pressure gauges.
-
-At the same time, men called oilers keep every part of the ship’s huge
-engines and other machinery well oiled. On some ships there is a big
-piston, like the driving rod on railroad engine wheels. One end of it
-moves in a circle. The oiler has to squirt oil in a little cup at the
-end of the piston. Every time the cup swings up where he can reach it,
-he aims his oil can. He is very careful to aim straight. If he misses
-the cup, oil splashes all over.
-
-No matter how careful he is, some oil does get spilled and spattered
-around. It is the job of the oiler to wipe it up and to polish all the
-brass fixtures, which he calls the brightwork. On deck, ordinary seamen
-polish the brightwork.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-One man is in charge of all the food on a ship. He is the steward, and
-the cooks work under him, and so do the messmen who are the waiters and
-dish washers.
-
-The radio man sends and receives all radio messages. He is called
-sparks.
-
-All the seamen who work on cargo vessels, and on passenger vessels, too,
-are divided up the same way into the deck department, the engine
-department and the steward’s department.
-
-As the great engine deep down in Jim’s ship pushes her through the calm
-blue water of the Mediterranean Sea, he stands watch in the bow. Now he
-begins to catch sight of small sailing vessels. When his ship enters the
-port of Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile River in Egypt, he is close
-to the place where much of the story of ships began.
-
-[Illustration: Egyptian Papyrus Reed Canoe]
-
-
-PAPYRUS REED CANOE. The people of Egypt discovered long ago that bundles
-of papyrus reed would hold up a man’s weight in the water. Later, they
-tied the bundles into a canoe shape which was easy to handle.
-
-[Illustration: Egyptian Dugout]
-
-
-EGYPTIAN DUGOUT. A log hollowed out in the shape of a reed canoe was
-stronger, and it lasted longer. By adding boards to a dugout along the
-top of each side, Egyptians had a vessel that could carry bigger loads.
-Paddles and their own muscles were all they had for power.
-
-[Illustration: Egyptian Oars and Sail]
-
-
-EGYPTIAN SAILING VESSEL. Here the power of wind was added to the power
-of oarsmen. Luckily the winds of Egypt blew from north to south and
-helped push sailing vessels up the Nile.
-
-
-GALLEYS. Greeks and Romans used sail-and-oar vessels called galleys.
-Slaves, chained to their seats, rowed in rhythm. There were many slaves,
-so their masters could get extra muscle-power by seating two, three or
-more banks of oarsmen on each side. A ship with two banks was a bireme;
-with three, a trireme.
-
-[Illustration: Greek Trireme]
-
-[Illustration: Rowers in a Trireme]
-
-
-DHOW. Other people around the Mediterranean Sea discovered they could do
-away with oarsmen by making better use of windpower. They invented
-triangular sails called lateen sails to take the place of square ones.
-Lateen-rigged dhows are still used. Columbus had both square and lateen
-sails on the Santa Maria. All three of his ships together were not as
-long as Jim’s freighter.
-
-[Illustration: Arab Dhow]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-New things begin to happen as Jim’s ship nears port. He goes down into
-the forepeak under the deck in the bow. There, all around, are neat
-coils of hawser which is as thick as his arm. He and other sailors shove
-one end of a hawser up the ladder. Men on deck grab it and wrap it
-around a sort of spool called a winch head. Now the winch turns the
-spool and does the work of lifting out the heavy line. The deckhands lay
-it neatly on the decks ready to use when the ship ties up at a pier.
-
-Next Jim goes up to the bow and helps Chips, the carpenter, break cement
-out of the hawse pipes. A hawse pipe is a hole in the ship’s side. An
-anchor chain runs through it. Whenever a ship raises, or weighs, its
-anchors and starts on a long trip, Chips plugs up the hawse pipes with
-cement. This keeps water from splashing up through the pipes in a storm.
-
-On modern ships, a machine called a windlass raises and lowers the
-anchors. In the old days, when sailors had to raise anchors by turning
-the capstan by hand, they had a phrase for officers who worked their way
-up from being deckhands. They said these officers came up “through the
-hawse pipe.” Officers who got their knowledge from going to school and
-studying books were said to “come in through the cabin window.”
-
-After the cement is out of the hawse pipe, Jim takes the devil’s claws
-off the anchor chains and releases the riding pawls. These are two
-brakes on the anchor chain which you can see in the picture. Now only
-the brake on the windlass holds the anchor chain in position over the
-wildcat, which is the wheel on the windlass.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The captain signals from the bridge to let go. Chips releases the
-windlass brake. The big chain rushes up out of the locker, over the
-wildcat and down the hawse pipe with a terrific roar. Soon the ship is
-safely anchored. The skipper can wait now until there is a vacant pier
-where he can tie up.
-
-[Illustration: Freighter]
-
-[Illustration: Tanker]
-
-After the ship ties up, the captain orders watches broken. The men no
-longer work four hours and rest eight. Now most of them work eight hours
-during the day and have the remaining time off, just the way shoreside
-people do. There is no need for the routine of the sea. Egyptian
-longshoremen will unload the cargo.
-
-Jim puts on a suit he has kept hanging pressed in his locker. Then he
-and Juan go down the gangplank. They are off to see the sights in the
-fascinating Egyptian city--and to buy souvenirs.
-
-But before they have gone very far from the waterfront where a tangle of
-masts and booms and stacks marks the skyline, they meet Lars, an old
-shipmate of theirs. That’s not so strange as you might think. A sailor
-often changes ships, and he gets to have many friends who travel just as
-much as he does. While they eat an Egyptian meal in an Egyptian
-restaurant, Lars says he’s on a tanker now. She’s in Alexandria getting
-her rudder repaired. It broke in a storm, but the men fixed up something
-to take its place. They called it a jury rudder.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Lars’s tanker looks very different from a freighter. She is long and low
-and has two houses. One is midships, and the officers’ quarters and
-wheelhouse are there. The crew lives in the other house at the stern.
-
-Between the two houses the deck is so low that waves often wash over
-it, and so there has to be a high bridge called a walkaway or a catwalk.
-
-Lars says his particular tanker carries “clean” oil. By that he means
-oil that has been refined into different grades of gasoline. “Dirty” oil
-is crude oil just the way it comes out of the wells. Lars is a tankerman
-and a seaman. He has taken a special examination for his job. He knows
-all the ways to pump different kinds of oil in and out of the tanks on a
-ship. He knows how to keep gasoline from exploding. He has learned to
-use special equipment. For instance, he never goes down to clean a tank
-on his ship without an oxygen mask and a lifeline. The lifeline is tied
-around him so that a seaman on deck can haul him up if fumes in the tank
-knock him out.
-
-Like most seamen, Lars has travelled all over the world. In China he has
-seen junks and sampans. He has seen fishing boats in Portugal with big
-eyes painted on the bows because sailors thought that helped the boats
-to see their way. Eyes of the same kind have been painted on ships for
-hundreds of years in many other places, even in Chesapeake Bay.
-
-[Illustration: Portuguese Fishing Boats]
-
-[Illustration: Viking Ship]
-
-
-OUTRIGGER. Long ago South Sea Islanders sailed great distances, guiding
-themselves by the stars. The outrigger at the side gives their small
-vessel balance in rough water.
-
-[Illustration: Outrigger of the Sulu Sea]
-
-
-JUNK. The sails of this Chinese ship are made of bamboo slats braced by
-bamboo rods. The rudder is so big that often a dozen men have to work on
-it. Many junks have colored sails.
-
-[Illustration: Junk]
-
-
-NORWEGIAN SHIPS. Old Viking ships that sailed from Norway had both oars
-and brightly decorated sails. Vikings were such good seamen they crossed
-the Atlantic in their open ships. Norwegians are still seafarers. Boys
-who want to be sailors get training on a sailing ship.
-
-[Illustration: Chinese Tub-boat]
-
-[Illustration: Sampan]
-
-Lars used to work on a tanker that brought oil from the Persian Gulf.
-When he went ashore there, he saw boats just like the earliest ones that
-men invented thousands of years ago. He saw boats that were really big,
-round clay pots, built by people in places where there was plenty of
-clay but very little wood. He saw huge basket boats woven from a kind of
-grass and waterproofed with a covering of tar. Some of the basket boats
-were big enough to carry twenty passengers--or several men and three
-horses!
-
-[Illustration: A Quffa on the Tigris]
-
-[Illustration: Raft of Timber and Inflated Skins Discharging Grain at
-Bagdad. Small quffas Serve as Lighters.]
-
-Smaller basket boats were used as lighters. (A lighter is any craft that
-helps to unload freight from another.) Here on the Tigris River, the
-freight was carried on a large raft supported by animal skins blown up
-like balloons. A little raft floating downstream sometimes carried its
-owner, his donkey and the grain he had to sell. After selling the grain,
-the boatman took the skins from under the raft, let the air out, piled
-them on the donkey’s back and walked back home upriver.
-
-Out at sea, whenever Lars sees a life raft on the top deck, he realizes
-it is just like the skin-float rafts he saw on the Tigris River. Instead
-of blown-up skins, water-tight metal containers filled with air hold the
-life raft up. When Lars puts on his life jacket for lifeboat drill, he
-is getting ready to use a float, just the way people long ago used
-bundles of reeds. Even though men have learned so much about ships in
-all the years since they first started to travel on water, they still
-use some of the first knowledge they ever acquired.
-
-All of these things interest Lars. He grew up by the sea in Norway, and
-his people have been seamen since the days of the Vikings. But best of
-all he likes the clean, modern, comfortable tankers. He is not only
-going somewhere himself when he is on a tanker. He is also helping to
-carry a cargo that helps other people to go places.
-
-[Illustration: Life raft]
-
-[Illustration: Life ring]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-SEATRAINS
-
-Lars’s tanker was built to do a very special kind of job. So were many
-other kinds of ships. Look at the Seatrain, which carries fully loaded
-freight cars--a hundred of them at a time.
-
-To load a Seatrain, the railroad locomotive pushes a string of cars out
-onto a long pier. A derrick lifts the cars up one by one, swings them
-over an open hatch, and lowers them neatly onto tracks in the ship’s
-hold. After the holds are filled, there’s still room for more cars on
-the main deck outside.
-
-It seems queer for trains to travel by ship, but sometimes that’s the
-best way to send cargo. Freight cars can be filled with sugar on the
-island of Cuba and brought across the water to the United States,
-without any extra loading and unloading. It’s often cheaper for freight
-cars to go by ship than by rail from New York to Savannah or New Orleans
-or Texas City.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-BANANA BOATS
-
-Banana boats do their own particular kind of work, too. Actually, they
-aren’t boats, although they do carry bananas. They are refrigerator
-ships. Seamen call them reefers--just as railroad men call a
-refrigerator car a reefer. Everything about a banana boat is arranged to
-keep her cargo cool. She is even painted white, because white things
-reflect some of the sun’s rays into the air instead of absorbing their
-heat. Inside the ship, blowers send cool air circulating around the
-bananas all the time. It isn’t enough just to chill them once and leave
-them there. Bananas actually make heat themselves. So a constant cool
-breeze is needed to carry their heat away. The ships that bring bananas
-from Central America do keep them in the refrigerator.
-
-A banana boat is fast, for she must rush the green fruit from the farm
-to market as quickly as possible. There are even very quick ways of
-loading and unloading. Machines called gantries stand on the pier where
-the ship ties up. The gantries carry the big bunches of bananas in soft
-canvas pockets arranged in an endless chain. Men on the dock lay the
-bunches, one after another into the pockets. Men inside the ship take
-them out and stow them away.
-
-A banana boat sailor does just about the same things that sailors on
-other cargo vessels do. He steers and stands lookout and works on deck.
-And like all sailors he has lifeboat drills. Every ship that sails the
-seas must have lifeboats. Look for them on some high deck, where they
-are easy to get at in emergencies. Canvas covers on the boats keep out
-rain and snow and protect the things stowed inside.
-
-A lifeboat is equipped with everything that you may need if you have to
-float around on the open sea after your ship has gone down. There are
-water-tight containers full of food, drinking water and matches. There
-are oars and sails and life jackets, first-aid equipment and ropes.
-There are flares to light, so that rescuers can locate the boat, and
-pistols that shoot signal flares like Roman candles high into the air.
-There are scoops called bailers for dipping water out of the boat. And
-each lifeboat carries a supply of storm oil. When this oil is spread out
-on the water, it keeps stormy waves from breaking near the boat. If a
-wave breaks too close, it may fill the boat with water and sink it.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The can of storm oil fits inside a cone-shaped canvas bag called a sea
-anchor. The sea anchor floats ahead of the boat and keeps it pointed
-toward the wind, while the oil drips slowly out and calms the waves.
-It’s important to be pointed into the wind, because a boat that bobs
-around sidewise can easily be tipped over by a wave. Long ago sailors
-discovered what a wonderful help oil can be in stormy weather, and
-that’s where the expression “oil on troubled waters” came from. It means
-to calm things down.
-
-A blast from the ship’s whistle tells seamen when it’s time for lifeboat
-drill. Every man knows which boat he’s supposed to use. He runs first
-for his life jacket, then up the ladders by the shortest route to his
-boat. All the knots and fastenings on the boat are made so that they can
-be loosened with one jerk. Quickly the men work machines called davits
-that are always in perfect order, ready to swing the lifeboat out over
-the water. In a real emergency, the boats would be lowered into the sea,
-and the men would scramble down rope ladders which are kept ready on
-deck. But in a drill, seamen just test the davits and lines.
-
-Most lifeboats are double-enders. This means that the bow and stern are
-rounded and look just alike. The rounded shape helps keep waves from
-tumbling in at either end. Lifeboats are modeled after the old-time
-boats in which sailors rowed away from sailing vessels when they went
-out to harpoon whales.
-
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-
-
-“THAR SHE BLOWS”
-
-Nowadays, a group of very modern vessels go out together on whaling
-expeditions. A big ship called the factory ship waits in one place while
-a half-dozen or more killer boats cruise around hunting whales. The
-killer boats are power driven, and they are almost as big as an old-time
-sailing ship.
-
-In June or July, one of these little fleets sets out for the South
-Pacific. At the whaling grounds, each killer boat begins its search.
-Suddenly--“Thar she blows!” A whale rises to the surface and spouts. The
-killer boat dashes after it. The harpooner in the bow aims a gun that’s
-fastened to the deck. The harpoon in the gun is as tall as a man and
-heavy, with an explosive charge in its pointed head, and a line attached
-to the shaft. When the head strikes the whale, the charge goes off
-inside, killing the great animal. The harpoon barbs spread out. Now the
-whale is held tight at the end of the line. The killer boat tows it back
-to the factory ship.
-
-The stern of the factory ship is open. A ramp leads up from the water to
-the ship’s after deck. Machinery pulls the whale up the ramp and onto
-the deck. There men with knives that look like big hockey sticks cut up
-the blubber and throw it into vats where the whale oil is boiled out.
-
-Hour after hour the killer boats bring in whales, sometimes forty or
-fifty a day--or even more! Everybody works day and night, with very
-little time to eat and sleep. The oil tanks in the factory ship begin to
-fill up. Now an ordinary tanker comes alongside. The whale oil is pumped
-from the factory ship to the tanker which delivers it at some big port
-thousands of miles away.
-
-When at last the factory ship again has all the oil she can hold, she
-steams off toward home. For seven or eight months her crew has not been
-ashore.
-
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-
-Now, as well as in the old days, men on whaling vessels proudly bring
-home scrimshaw. That is carving they have done on the teeth or jawbones
-of whales. It is often very delicate and beautiful.
-
-On the return trip the factory ship’s speed is much less than when she
-started out--and not just because her tanks are full. In June her hull
-was smooth and freshly painted, and it slipped easily through the water.
-Now in February she has barnacles all over the hull under water--such a
-rough coat of barnacles that she’s held back a great deal.
-
-Barnacles are tiny sea creatures that grow by the millions. They attach
-themselves to anything under water and form hard little shells. They
-hold so tightly to the ship that they must be chipped off. That’s a job
-to be done in a place called drydock.
-
-
-DRYDOCK
-
-All ships go to drydock for regular cleaning and repairing and painting.
-This is what happens: The ship noses into a place surrounded by three
-concrete walls. Huge water-tight gates swing shut behind her, penning
-her in. Mooring lines hold her steady in the exact center of the dock,
-and pumps go to work taking out all the water in which she floats.
-Slowly the ship settles into a sort of cradle that has been prepared on
-the floor of the dock to fit her hull just right. When the water is all
-out, there she stands, balanced and braced. Now men can work under her
-and all over her--and inside. They scrape off the barnacles, paint the
-hull, and repair any parts that have begun to wear out. To reach some
-parts of the hull painters use long-handled brushes--really long.
-They’re often three times as tall as a man!
-
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-
-Experts go over the ship as carefully as doctors examine people. But
-many men work at top speed in shifts around the clock, and a ship often
-spends only twenty-four hours in drydock. Then the gates open. Water
-flows back into the dock. The ship floats again, ready to go to sea.
-
-Sometimes a ship can’t get to drydock. Then a floating drydock comes to
-the ship. It works the same way as a regular one. Floating drydocks have
-traveled to distant parts of the world, pulled by seagoing tugs.
-
-
-TUGS
-
-A tug is a vessel that looks small but has an enormously powerful
-engine--an engine almost as big as one that moves a cargo ship. In fact,
-the tugboat’s job is to push and pull cargo and passenger ships around.
-
-Big ships need help getting in and out of the narrow spaces between
-piers in a harbor. If they used only their own power, they might either
-smash themselves up or crush the piers. Tugs, working together, can push
-a little here, pull a little there, and ease a huge vessel gently into
-place.
-
-A tugboat captain must have a great deal of knowledge about the harbor
-in which he works. In order to pass his captain’s examination, he has to
-draw a map of the harbor from memory, showing every pier and marker and
-even the rocks, hills and valleys underwater. Most important, he must
-have a feel for what a ship is going to do when he nudges her at a
-certain point or when he reverses his propeller and pulls.
-
-For all his skill and responsibility, the captain wouldn’t think of
-wearing a uniform at work. He prefers old work clothes, and he sits down
-with the crew when the cook serves up jumbo-sized meals.
-
-The cook goes on duty in the galley at any time from one o’clock in the
-morning on, depending on what time the tug must start work. Breakfast
-may be at three or four, but the usual time is six. And often the cook’s
-job isn’t over at four in the afternoon when he serves supper. If the
-tug is working overtime, he fixes a meal called a “midnight snack” which
-the men eat perhaps around seven o’clock. There’s enough food in the
-snack to feed a shoreside person for a whole day.
-
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-
-Besides the captain and the cook, a tug needs a chief engineer, an
-oiler, a fireman and a deckhand. The deckhand works with the hawsers
-that are often used when a tug has to pull a big ship.
-
-This is what happens: An AB aboard the ship holds a coil of light line,
-called a heaving line. At the end of the line is a ball-shaped knot
-called a monkey fist. The AB gives a big swing and sends the monkey fist
-and line flying down to the tug. The deckhand on the tug grabs for the
-line. He’s not an outfielder trying to catch the ball. The monkey fist
-is there only to make the line uncoil and go straight.
-
-The deckhand pulls on the heaving line, which is attached to a hawser on
-the ship. (Sailors don’t say the line is attached or tied. They say it’s
-“bent” to the hawser.) The hawser is so big that it can’t be thrown, but
-it can be hauled onto the tug by the heaving line. The deckhand makes
-the hawser fast to a bitt on the tug’s deck, and now she can pull.
-
-For pushing jobs the tug has a thick pad called a bow fender made of
-heavy rope hung over the bow. After the fender has been used a while, it
-gets worn and shaggy and is often called a “beard.” It protects any ship
-the tug is pushing. There are fenders along each side of a tug, too.
-Sometimes they are made of rope. Sometimes they are old automobile tires
-or just logs hung loosely over the side. The logs get so much banging
-around that they may have to be replaced every few days.
-
-Very often a tug has something on its bridge that looks like a gun. It’s
-not. It’s a water nozzle attached to a pump, and it’s there to help
-fight fires on ships.
-
-The kind of tug that you can see on the Mississippi River is called a
-towboat. She doesn’t tug, and she
-
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-
-doesn’t tow. She just pushes. A Mississippi towboat gets behind a whole
-string of flat-bottomed barges and shoves them up and down rivers. She
-often pushes ten barges at a time, loaded with twice as much cargo as an
-ordinary seagoing freighter can carry.
-
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-
-Many towboats have all of the latest inventions for quick and safe
-travelling in water that is often more tricky than the open sea. There’s
-a lot of traffic to watch out for on the Mississippi, and the river
-sweeps around in many bends. Mud collects on the river bottom, so the
-captain can’t always know how deep the water is going to be. Uprooted
-trees and other big things that could damage vessels often come floating
-downstream. And when it’s pitch dark, or when a thick fog hangs over the
-water, all these problems get much worse.
-
-Radar is one of the inventions that help towboats avoid danger. Radar
-sends out radio waves which bounce back to the towboat from anything
-they hit. In the towboat’s pilothouse is a radarscope, which is a little
-like a television screen. The returning radio waves show up as spots of
-light called pips on the radarscope. By looking at the pips, the pilot
-can locate the shores of the river, other vessels, floating trees and
-anything else that’s dangerous.
-
-Another wonderful invention, called a depth recorder, tells the pilot
-how deep the water is under the head barge in his tow. If the river
-seems to be getting shallow, he can steer the whole tow into safer
-water. The depth recorder works by sending out sound waves and making a
-record of them when they bounce back from the river bottom.
-
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-
-In the old days, river craft had a leadman who measured depth with a
-line tied to a lead weight. Knots and pieces of leather marked the
-line. Even at night the leadman could tell by feel how deep the water
-was. For instance, if his fingers felt that the line was wet up to a
-place where there were two strips of leather, he would know that two
-fathoms (twelve feet) of water lay underneath. Two markers at two
-fathoms. “By the mark twain,” the leadman would call out to the captain.
-
-There was once a Mississippi River pilot named Samuel Clemens who, like
-all pilots, loved to hear that call. It meant that there was enough
-water to keep his vessel afloat. Later, when he began to write books, he
-signed them with the name Mark Twain.
-
-In Mark Twain’s time, the Mississippi River boats were driven by huge
-paddle wheels. As the wood-burning steam engine turned the wheels, the
-paddles pushed against the water and shoved the boat forward.
-
-Steam engines began working in rivers very quickly after the first
-successful paddle boat, the Clermont, proved that she could push
-upstream. River boatmen needed engines more than seafaring men did,
-because winds seldom blow upstream as they do on the Nile.
-
-Before there were paddleboats, men took cargo down the Mississippi in
-keelboats. Then they had to get the boats up-river again almost entirely
-by muscle-power. Pushing against the bottom with poles, or pulling with
-ropes from the shore, river boatmen worked the whole way up from New
-Orleans to Pittsburgh.
-
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-
-A river boatman still works hard, but in a very different way. In his
-time off, he may listen to radio or even watch television on board the
-towboat. In the old days, he would have caught fish and fried them over
-a fire built in a pile of sand on the keelboat deck. Today the cook
-takes food from a freezer, prepares it on an electric range, and stows
-the dirty dishes in an automatic dishwasher.
-
-In the old days, the river was the quickest way for passengers to
-travel, and for freight, too. People now go faster by bus or train or
-plane. But there’s more and more cargo for the barges to carry on the
-Mississippi and the other rivers that flow into it. Oil, coal, grain,
-steel, ore, sulfur are some of the things that move along ahead of the
-powerful streamlined towboats.
-
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-
-
-GREAT LAKES SHIPS
-
-Grain, coal, ore and limestone for making steel travel on Great Lakes
-ships, too. So do many other kinds of cargo. Long ago, explorers
-believed that the enormous sea-like lakes would lead them all the way
-around the world to China. One man even wore Chinese clothes as he
-paddled westward in an Indian canoe, so he would be properly dressed
-when he arrived!
-
-For nearly three hundred years since then, vessels have used these great
-inland waterways to carry goods and the most precious cargo of
-all--people. Settlers by the thousand from Germany, Sweden, Scotland and
-other countries filled the decks of sailing vessels and paddle
-steamboats that took them right up to the frontier. Today almost five
-hundred modern cargo vessels shuttle back and forth on the Lakes,
-carrying the wealth that the descendants of those pioneers have created.
-
-A Great Lakes ship doesn’t look like any other. She is broad and low and
-very long--so long, in fact that she is less rigid than most ships.
-Seamen say she feels “willowy” if she steams along in heavy weather
-after her cargo is unloaded. The wheelhouse of a Lakes ship is forward
-in the bow, along with quarters for the officers and a few passengers.
-The engine and the crew’s quarters are away at the stern. In between,
-are holds--a great many more of them than on any ocean-going ship.
-Marvellous loading machines dump ore or any other loose cargo into the
-holds. Other wonderful unloading machines quickly scoop the cargo out.
-
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-
-Many of the ships run between ports on Lake Huron and Lake Superior.
-Lake Superior is 22 feet higher than Lake Huron. So ships must use a
-sort of ladder to get from one to the other through a canal called the
-Sault Sainte Marie--or Soo for short. Locks in the canal are the
-ladder-rungs. Suppose a ship is going up. She enters the narrow canal.
-Ahead are gates. Gates close behind her. She is in a lock. Now the gates
-in front open and let more water into the lock, lifting the ship higher.
-She moves forward into another lock and is lifted again in the same way.
-Sometimes as she goes along, seamen on board toss money to ice cream
-sellers on shore, and catch the pop-sticks that are thrown back.
-
-For eight months each year, the Lake ships keep hurrying back and forth
-between Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago, Duluth and other port
-cities. There’s hardly a time when a man can’t see smoke from other
-vessels on the horizon. Then winter comes, and the Lakes freeze over.
-Lake sailors tie up their ships and go ashore. Most of them have been on
-the water day and night through the whole season.
-
-Sometimes a ship stays out too late in the year and can’t get to port
-because ice has locked her in. Then a ship called an ice breaker comes
-to her rescue. An ice breaker smashes up ice early in the spring, too,
-so that ships can begin to move.
-
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-
-[Illustration: Oil Tanker]
-
-[Illustration: Coastal Lumber Carrier]
-
-[Illustration: Types of Cargo-Passenger Ships]
-
-[Illustration: Banana Ship]
-
-[Illustration: Coastal Freighter]
-
-[Illustration: Collier]
-
-[Illustration: Seatrain]
-
-
-AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIPS
-
-Merchant seamen man all the different kinds of cargo ships you see in
-the pictures on these two pages. Their jobs take great skill and
-patience and very often courage. It has always been that way with men
-who follow the sea. Some of the things they do are as old as ships
-themselves. But many things are different now.
-
-On old sailing vessels, the crew had to get their sleep wherever they
-could find a place to lie down. They might curl up on a coil of rope or
-on the cargo in the hold. Later, they were given one room, the
-forecastle, for the whole crew. Everybody was on watch at least twelve
-hours a day. It is only in the last twenty years that seamen have worked
-eight regular hours a day.
-
-[Illustration: Types of Freighters in Hawaiian Trade]
-
-[Illustration: Mariner Class Freighter]
-
-[Illustration: Harbor Tug]
-
-[Illustration: New Type Freighter]
-
-[Illustration: Ocean-Going Tug]
-
-[Illustration: Victory Class Freighter]
-
-[Illustration: Liberty Ship]
-
-Almost all ships now have more comfortable bunkrooms, with only two or
-four men in each one. Instead of living on old-fashioned salt meat and
-salt fish and crackers called hardtack, seamen have almost the same
-things that they eat ashore. In the old days, seamen often got a disease
-called scurvy because they had no fresh food. Then the British
-discovered that lime juice prevented scurvy, and every one of their
-ships carried barrels of it. That’s why American seamen still call
-British seamen limeys.
-
-There are laws and regulations now that provide for better food and
-working hours and pay on ships. Seamen in their unions have worked hard
-to get the laws and rules that have made life better for them.
-
-
-FISHING VESSELS
-
-Fishermen have always been among the most daring and hardworking men of
-the sea. For thousands of years they have experimented and invented,
-always in search of the boats and ships and nets that will do the best
-job for them. New England fishermen used to be great whittlers of ship
-models. They carved out their models partly for fun, partly to give
-shipbuilders new ideas for improving their designs.
-
-One of the great fishing towns is Gloucester, Massachusetts, and there’s
-a story about it that goes this way: Almost two hundred and fifty years
-ago, a ship builder in Gloucester launched a vessel that everyone
-admired. On the day when she first slid into the water, a big crowd
-gathered to watch. She was graceful and light, and she fairly skimmed
-along--the way a flat stone does when a boy skips it over the water. In
-those days in New England, some people called skipping “scooning.”
-
-All at once, someone in the crowd called out, “See how she scoons!” The
-builder called back, “A scooner let her be!” And according to the story,
-the name schooner--a new spelling--has stuck to this very day.
-
-A modern schooner still has sails, but not so many as the early ones. An
-engine now gives her power, so that she can make fast time to and from
-the fishing grounds, and her sails are used mostly to steady her in the
-sea while the men work. The engine also helps with the heavy work of
-handling the nets.
-
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-
-Each kind of fish has its own habits, and the fishermen know them well.
-Some fish, such as cod and flounder, live down near the floor of the
-sea. They are caught in drag nets which are towed at the right speed
-behind the vessel. Men haul the net in, dump the catch into ice-cooled
-bins in the hold, then drag the net again.
-
-Mackerel behave differently. They swim along in huge groups called
-schools near the surface of the water. The lookout man on the mast keeps
-his eye on the sea till he can yell, “School O!” Quickly the men lower a
-boat that sets a huge net called a purse-seine. At first the net is
-really a fence. Hundreds of floating corks at the top, and lead weights
-at the bottom, hold it in place, while the seine-boat draws it into a
-circle around the fish. Then, at a signal, a motor in the seine-boat
-pulls on a sort of drawstring in the bottom of the net, closing it and
-turning it into a kind of giant sack. The seine is “pursed” with the
-fish trapped inside.
-
-This is what happens on a lucky day. But mackerel can be very irritating
-fish. Sometimes the whole school will suddenly dive and race away to
-safety, just the moment before the trap closes. Fishermen must have
-patience as well as skill.
-
-Before engines went to sea, the men had to purse the seine by hand.
-Since their schooner carried no ice, they cleaned the fish, salted them
-and packed them into barrels as fast as possible. Everybody, including
-the skipper, worked at top speed. Even the cook lent a hand, and he was
-often a boy of ten who hung his pots in an open fireplace or smoked
-some of the mackerel in the chimney.
-
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-
-Fleets of fishing vessels go out together when the season is right.
-There’s a race for the fishing grounds, and then a race back to deliver
-the catch to market. In fishing towns all around the seacoasts, small
-forests of masts fill the harbors when the fleets are in.
-
-Among the schooners you can also see sturdily-built trawlers, which are
-usually driven by steam-power. Newest of all are the vessels that work
-like quick-freeze factories. Machines on board clean the fish, cut them
-up, package them and freeze them right where they are caught. Or the
-fishermen may quick-freeze the whole fish, then bring them back to be
-thawed and sent to market.
-
-People in fishing towns are proud of their fleets, and there’s a warm
-welcome for the vessel that comes in first with a big load.
-
-
-THE UNITED STATES
-
-The day a ship returns safely has always been important to seafaring
-men. It’s especially important if she has made a new record of some
-kind. All the seamen in New York harbor were excited when the passenger
-liner United States came in after crossing the Atlantic faster than any
-other liner had ever done. And they all showed their respect in the
-traditional way.
-
-On tugs and freighters, on tankers, on other liners, skippers passed
-down the word, “Break out the bunting!” This meant take out all the
-brightly colored signal flags and hang them on the stays. (On page 91
-you can find out what the signal flags are.) The United States had her
-bunting out, too. When she appeared in the harbor, every vessel there
-greeted her with tremendous whistle blasts. Fireboats filled the air
-with high curving streams of water from all their nozzles.
-
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-
-Aboard the United States, the members of the crew were more excited than
-any one else in the harbor, but their work went right on through all the
-happy hullaballoo. The AB’s got ready to tie their huge ship up. Others,
-from the black gang to the steward’s department, were busy with
-last-minute jobs. Working together as one huge team, they had made the
-world’s fastest crossing. On the trip from New York to England, the
-United States averaged 35.9 knots. (That means she travelled nearly 42
-land miles an hour. Seamen never say “knots per hour.” They just say
-knots.) Before that the passenger liner Queen Mary held the record. It
-took the United States 10 hours and 2 minutes less than the Queen Mary
-to cross the ocean.
-
-The United States is really more than a ship. With a thousand people in
-her crew and two thousand passengers, she is a floating town. Besides
-the seamen who do their regular seamen’s work, there are crew members
-with special jobs. In the ship’s shopping centers, storekeepers sell
-souvenirs, and all kinds of things that passengers want and need. Movie
-operators work in her two theaters. A children’s nurse takes care of
-children in the nursery. A veterinarian cares for pets on board. Guards
-watch over the swimming pool. A doctor and a registered nurse are ready
-in the ship’s hospital to help anyone who is sick. Air conditioning
-experts see that every room in the ship is kept at the right
-temperature. Everything from the engine room to the dog kennels is
-air-conditioned.
-
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-
-Curtains, chair covers and rugs on the ship are made of material that
-doesn’t burn. There is no wood at all in the ship except in the
-butchers’ chopping blocks and in the pianos. But suppose a passenger
-drops a match into a wastebasket in his stateroom. There’s an automatic
-smoke-smelling gadget that sends a signal to a room on the bridge. The
-officer there turns on the fire alarm, then pulls a lever which closes
-that particular stateroom door and blocks the fire off.
-
-There are lifeboats for all three thousand people in case of emergency.
-These lifeboats are driven by propellers--but they have no engines.
-People supply the power for the propeller. They push handles back and
-forth. Even on this most modern ship in the world, there are boats that
-move in the oldest way--by muscle power.
-
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-
-The four propellers of the liner herself are each as tall as a
-two-storey house. They are turned by enormous steam turbine engines.
-Smoke from the boilers goes out through unusual-looking stacks. Inside
-each one are giant filters that take away most of the soot. Besides,
-there are wings called vanes at the top of the stacks to help keep the
-smoke from swirling down onto the deck.
-
-Although the United States is about five city blocks long and twelve
-decks high, she looks as light and graceful in her way as the old
-clipper ships. The clippers were American sailing vessels that got their
-names because they went at a very fast clip. A hundred years ago they
-held speed records all over the world. No wonder the captain of the
-United States proudly said that his seamen were carrying on the clipper
-ship tradition.
-
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-
-Many people think the clippers were the most beautiful ships ever built.
-Certainly they were the first sailing ships to be planned by men who
-used scientific ideas in their work. At that time, science was bringing
-modern machinery of all kinds to the world. Inventors had already put
-steam engines into ships, but they had not yet studied what was the best
-shape for a speedy vessel. And speed was becoming very important as more
-people and cargoes crossed the oceans.
-
-[Illustration: An Old Bay Liner]
-
-No one knew whether steamships could go fast. But some shipbuilders
-believed that sailing ships could go faster than ever before. They built
-the record-breaking clippers. Soon the magnificent vessels began to have
-races all the way from China to New York and London. It was many years
-before steamships caught up with the clippers, but in the end they
-proved to be faster. More important, they could keep going whether there
-was any wind or not.
-
-
-OTHER PASSENGER SHIPS
-
-It’s the job of a passenger ship to carry people--and give them a good
-time on their journey. But passenger ships also carry cargo. That’s true
-of big ones and little ones, such as the City of Norfolk which belongs
-to the Old Bay Line, the oldest American shipping company.
-
-The City of Norfolk goes on short trips back and forth between Norfolk
-and Baltimore on Chesapeake Bay. She takes on cargo during the day and
-sails at night. Although she’s an old ship, she has radar to help guide
-her through the busy waters of the Bay. All around are fishing craft,
-ferries, ocean-going vessels--endless traffic through which the officers
-must steer a safe course. In the dark wheelhouse, soft small lights hold
-the key to safety--the sea-green light by which the man at the wheel
-sees the markings on the compass, the yellow pips and the revolving blue
-line on the radarscope.
-
-In the hold below are automobiles, piles of second-hand truck tires,
-crates holding all kinds of things, copper sheets by the ton which have
-come by train from Utah, and will end up in some eastern factory.
-
-[Illustration: Interior of an Old Time Bay Line Steamer]
-
-[Illustration: Seattle to Bremerton Ferry]
-
-Passengers stroll all over the decks. Some are travelling on business;
-some are just sailing for fun. A group of school boys and girls on their
-class trip dance to phonograph records. Their staterooms are
-air-conditioned, but the inside of the ship looks almost as it did in
-their grandmothers’ day, with balconies and big living-rooms called
-saloons.
-
-The City of Norfolk--and many other ships like her on bays and rivers
-and lakes--is really a sort of combination ferry boat and hotel. Most
-ferries, of course, have much shorter runs, and they are built to fit
-the needs of their own special work.
-
-Many ferries look exactly the same fore and aft. They have propellers,
-rudders and wheelhouses at both ends, and there’s a good reason why. A
-double-ended ferry makes quick trips back and forth. She can save time
-if she doesn’t have to turn around in the water when she goes in and out
-of her dock which is called a slip.
-
-The big ferries carry automobiles, trucks, and as many as three thousand
-people at a time. Some of them, on long runs, have up-to-date snack bars
-so passengers can get quick meals. For safety, they carry lifeboats and
-life jackets, just as ocean-going vessels do. But a ferry could never go
-to sea. She is built very broad, with very little of her under the water
-and a great deal above. Big ocean waves would tip her over.
-
-[Illustration: Staten Island Ferry]
-
-[Illustration: Arkansas River Ferry]
-
-Men have used ferries from the earliest times. Hundreds and even
-thousands of years ago people and animals were ferried across rivers on
-rafts. Even today there are raft-like ferries which men guide across our
-rivers by steel cables.
-
-[Illustration: Railroad Car Ferry]
-
-Train ferries take loaded freight cars across harbors where there are no
-railroad bridges. In some harbors, the cars travel on flat-bottomed
-barges which tugboats shove along.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Long ago, barges were quite different. They were elegant vessels in
-which kings and important people travelled on rivers. And fancy barges,
-towed along behind paddle steamboats, once carried passengers up and
-down the Hudson River, too. At that time the steam boilers on
-paddleboats often exploded. Many crewmen and passengers were killed. So,
-in order to attract customers, some steamboats towed “safety barges”
-behind.
-
-Nowadays barges are plain cargo vessels that do heavy work. Most of them
-have no power of their own. They must be towed or pushed. The seaman who
-handles a barge is called a barge captain. He must be an AB to get the
-job, and on some barges he lives in a house at the stern. If he has a
-family, they may make their home there the year round.
-
-Before the days of railroads, a whole system of canals joined many of
-the important American cities. Along these waterways horses or mules
-pulled barge-loads of freight. Many a canal boatman started before he
-was twelve years old, driving a mule on long trips all by himself. There
-are still some canals in use, and powerdriven barges carry cargoes on
-them.
-
-
-FIREBOATS AND OTHER HELPERS
-
-The old-fashioned engines that used to explode are gone now. So are the
-candles and whale-oil lamps that lighted ships. All these caused fires
-in wooden vessels. But even today, when most ships are made of steel,
-with fireproofing equipment, there’s work for fireboats to do.
-
-The seamen aboard fireboats belong to the Fire Department. They do deck
-work or engine work, and they also handle the pumps and nozzles that
-shoot enormous streams of water. The pumps suck in water through holes
-in the side of the boat and force it through hoses and nozzles that can
-be aimed like big guns.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Sometimes fireboats go a little way outside their harbor to help a
-burning ship. On the way, the fireboat captain guides his vessel between
-buoys that mark the channels where ships can go. All harbors have these
-channels, which are really streets for water traffic. The buoys are
-floating signals anchored to the bottom. On a clear day, seamen can tell
-by looking at the shape and color what each buoy means. In a fog or at
-night, they listen for the bells or whistles on some special buoys and
-watch for the flashing lights on others.
-
-Rivers have channels marked with buoys, too, and men who belong to the
-United States Coast Guard Service have the job of placing and repairing
-them.
-
-The Coast Guard also cares for lighthouses at dangerous points along the
-shore. Powerful lights and foghorns in the lighthouses warn ships away
-from rocks or shallow water and also help them find out exactly where
-they are. In some places, lightships anchored in the sea do this same
-job. A lightship is really a giant buoy. Seamen live aboard her to care
-for the safety equipment. They get their food and mail from vessels
-called tenders. (Any vessel that supplies another is a tender.)
-
-Coast Guardsmen help seamen in other ways, too. Suppose a ship is
-sinking. Fast, tough little Coast Guard cutters race off to the rescue
-the minute the dreaded SOS signal comes over their radio. (SOS is the
-code
-
-[Illustration]
-
-signal for “help!” and every radio man understands it, no matter what
-language he speaks.)
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Using a special gun, men on the cutter shoot a lifeline across to the
-sinking ship, and a breeches buoy is rigged on it. This is a canvas
-seat, made like a pair of short pants. The seat hangs from a wheel
-called a block which runs along the line. One by one the seamen sit in
-the seat and are pulled along to safety.
-
-
-CHARTS FOR SAFETY
-
-In the days when the United States was still a very new country, many
-people in Europe longed for the freedom they were sure they could find
-here. One of them was Ferdinand Hassler, a young Swiss mathematician.
-Hassler was no seaman when he set out for the new world in a sailing
-ship. But luckily he did know a great deal about the stars. After the
-captain of his vessel collapsed in a terrific storm, Hassler was able to
-look at the stars and tell the seamen how to steer the ship.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-The things Hassler knew about mathematics made it easy for him to
-navigate, but real troubles began when the ship came into Delaware Bay.
-The map of the bay was old and very inaccurate. Hassler could not tell
-whether the ship was in shallow water or deep water, except by watching
-the leadline day and night.
-
-This last part of his adventure made young Hassler very angry because it
-was so unscientific. He realized that the safety of all ships depended
-on accurate maps, called charts, of the coasts and harbors. Soon after
-he landed he began to make plans for a survey of the whole American
-coast. He talked to President Jefferson who agreed with him, and
-Congress finally gave him the job. At last his good charts began to help
-save lives.
-
-Today the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey carries on the work
-Hassler started. Using many ships and small boats with marvellous
-equipment, the scientific men of the sea go about their important and
-often dangerous work. It’s their job to map the earth that lies under
-the oceans, rivers and harbors. Here are some of the things they do
-along the Alaskan coast.
-
-A survey ship moves through the water sending sound waves to the bottom
-of the ocean. A delicate machine records the echoes made when the sound
-waves bounce back from the deep valleys and the high mountain tops that
-lie beneath the surface. Scientists know how fast sound travels in
-water, so they can tell exactly how deep it is. But some of the peaks
-are narrow and sharp. Even the wonderful machines miss them. And so
-these very modern vessels must do something old-fashioned and simple.
-Two of them travel side by side with a long wire cable hanging between
-them. If the cable catches on a rock, the men know they have snagged a
-sunken mountain top.
-
-Often, men on shore help the men on ships with their surveying. The
-instruments they use are so delicate that the warmth of direct sunlight
-would cause inaccuracies. One slight error might mean a shipwreck. So,
-even in Alaska, a surveyor works under an umbrella.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-You might think that all the charts and maps should have been finished
-in the long years since President Jefferson’s time. But the work of
-making charts can never be finished. The coastline is always changing.
-Currents and tides, storms and floods shift millions of tons of sand
-near the coast. Earthquakes and volcanoes raise land or lower it. A
-place that was safe for ships yesterday may be dangerous today.
-
-In Alaska, glaciers that run into the sea grow bigger or melt back.
-Sometimes these enormous rivers of ice push themselves out under the
-water. The little survey vessels mapping the ocean’s bottom have to sail
-over the sunken glaciers. There is always danger that, at any moment, a
-great mountain of fresh-water ice may break loose and rush toward the
-surface. When this happens, any vessel nearby is almost certain to be
-destroyed.
-
-Seafaring men need to know about the tides when they enter or leave
-harbors. Tides are very different at different places along our enormous
-coastline, and they change from one day to another. The Coast and
-Geodetic Survey has worked out a wonderful way of telling ships about
-tides in advance. Every day, records pour into Washington from all along
-the seacoast. The figures they give are put into a fantastic “thinking
-machine,” together with other figures about the sun and moon which cause
-the tides. Electricity is turned on, and in no time the machine tells
-what tides will be like with ordinary weather tomorrow or even next
-month.
-
-Men have come a long way since they first learned to float on a blown-up
-animal skin or a bundle of reeds. For thousands of years, they have been
-inventing new and better ways to travel across water. But the oceans
-have an enormous power and force. Science and seamen still have much to
-learn about the power which they must fight and make work for them--and
-which will always be exciting.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-
-WHAT SEAMEN SAY
-
-Here are some words that you haven’t met in the rest of the book. They
-are all part of seagoing language.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
- AHOY--a call given by men on one ship to greet men on another.
-
- AVAST--an officer shouts “avast” if he wants a seaman to stop
- hauling on a line.
-
- BELAY--to tie or make fast. A belaying pin is a short rod which can
- be stuck into a holder so that a line can be twisted around it.
- There were many belaying pins on old sailing vessels, and they made
- handy weapons at times.
-
- DEEP SIX--when a sailor throws something overboard, he “gives it
- the deep six.” The expression comes from the days when sailors
- measured the depth of water with a leadline. The “deep six” was a
- place on the line which showed the water was six fathoms (36 feet)
- deep.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
-[Illustration]
-
- FOUL--Seamen use this word to describe anything that has gone wrong
- or got mixed up. A snarled line is foul. A ship’s hull covered with
- barnacles is foul. Bad weather is foul.
-
- NORWEGIAN STEAM--seamen say they use “Norwegian steam” when they do
- heavy work without the help of machinery.
-
- SCUTTLE BUTT--the drinking fountain on a ship. Because seamen often
- gather there to talk, the rumors and gossip that they pass on are
- also called “scuttle butt.”
-
- SEA LAWYER--a seaman who likes to argue about rules and
- regulations.
-
- SLOP CHEST--a room where seamen can buy clothes. Every ship is
- required to have one.
-
- SLUMGULLION--a seaman’s word for stew that he doesn’t like.
-
- TRAMP--a freighter that ties up anywhere and has no regular
- schedule.
-
- WINDJAMMER--a sailing vessel.
-
-[Illustration]
-
-Code flags make it possible for ships to talk to each other at sea. Each
-flag stands for a number or for a letter in the alphabet. The flags are
-used in combinations--not to spell out individual words, but to send a
-whole message. For instance, the two flags N and C flown together mean,
-“In distress. Need prompt aid.” No matter what language a seaman speaks
-he knows what this signal means. Some of the other messages he can read
-are IQ--“Do not pass ahead of me”; RW--“Where are you from?”; AG--“Shall
-not abandon my vessel.”
-
-
-
-
-INDEX
-
-
-AB, 12, 26
-
-Able Bodied Seaman, 12
-
-accommodation ladder, 26
-
-amidships, 25
-
-anchor, 34-35
-
-athwartships, 25
-
-
-backstay, 28
-
-banana boats, 43-46
-
-basket boat, 40
-
-barge, 60, 80, 81
-
-barnacles, 50
-
-batten down the hatches, 27
-
-beam, 28
-
-bells, 14
-
-bilge, 28
-
-bireme, 33
-
-booms, 27
-
-bosun, 24, 29
-
-bosun’s chair, 29, 31
-
-bow, 12
-
-Bowditch, Nathaniel, 18, 19
-
-brightwork, 31
-
-bulkhead, 24
-
-buoy, 82
-
-
-canal, 62, 80, 81
-
-capstan, 22
-
-captain, 29
-
-chantey, 21, 22
-
-charts, 84-87
-
-Chips, 24, 25, 34
-
-Clermont, 58
-
-clipper, 75, 76
-
-City of Norfolk, 76, 77
-
-Coast Guard, 82, 83
-
-companionway, 24
-
-compass, 17, 18
-
-crow’s nest, 13
-
-
-davit, 46
-
-depth recorder, 57
-
-dhow, 33
-
-dock, 27
-
-draft, 28
-
-drydock, 50-51
-
-dugout, 32
-
-
-Egypt, 31-32
-
-engineer, 30
-
-engine room telegraph, 19
-
-
-fathom, 58
-
-fender, 54
-
-ferry boats, 78, 79
-
-fireboat, 81
-
-firemen, 30
-
-fishing vessels, 66-70
-
-forecastle, 10
-
-
-gantries, 44
-
-galley, 12
-
-galleys, 33
-
-Great Lakes Ships, 60-62
-
-
-handy billy, 25
-
-Hassler, Ferdinand, 84-86
-
-hatch, 27
-
-hawse pipe, 34
-
-heaving line, 53
-
-helm, 26
-
-helmsman, 26
-
-
-ice breaker, 62
-
-International Code flags, 91
-
-
-Jacob’s ladder, 26
-
-junk, 39
-
-jury rudder, 37
-
-
-keelboat, 58
-
-king posts, 27
-
-knots, 29
-
-
-leadline, 57, 58, 85
-
-leeward, 25
-
-lifeboat, 44-46, 73, 74
-
-lifeline, 38
-
-life raft, 41
-
-lighter, 40
-
-lights, 15
-
-limey, 65
-
-locks, 62
-
-
-Mark Twain, 58
-
-marlinspike, 29
-
-mate, 14
-
-merchant ship types, 64-65
-
-messmen, 31
-
-mizzenmast, 24, 29
-
-monkey fist, 53, 54
-
-
-navigating, 19
-
-
-oiler, 30
-
-oil tanker, 37-41
-
-Old Bay Line, 76, 77
-
-ore carriers, 60-62
-
-outrigger, 39
-
-
-paddleboats, 58, 80
-
-papyrus reed canoe, 32
-
-passenger ships, 70-79
-
-pea coat, 10
-
-pier, 27
-
-pilot, 26, 57
-
-pilot house, 26
-
-poop deck, 28
-
-port, 15
-
-purse seine, 68
-
-
-Queen Mary, 72
-
-quartermaster, 26
-
-
-radar, 56, 57, 77
-
-radio man, 31
-
-raft, 40
-
-
-SOS, 82, 83
-
-sailor, 12
-
-sailor’s palm, 21
-
-Samson posts, 27
-
-Santa Maria, 33
-
-schooner, 66, 67
-
-scrimshaw, 49
-
-sea anchor, 45
-
-Seatrain, 42
-
-sheepshank, 29
-
-shroud, 28
-
-sparks, 31
-
-standing watch, 10-19
-
-starboard, 15
-
-stay, 28
-
-steward, 31
-
-storm oil, 45, 46
-
-survey ships, 86-87
-
-
-taffrail log, 28
-
-tanker, 37-41
-
-tides, 88
-
-towboat, 54-59
-
-trawler, 69
-
-trireme, 33
-
-tugs, 52-59
-
-
-United States, 70-74
-
-United States Coast Guard, 82, 83
-
-United States Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey, 86-87
-
-
-Viking ships, 39
-
-
-watch, 12
-
-whaler, 48-49
-
-wharf, 27
-
-wheel, 17
-
-wheelhouse, 13-14, 17, 26
-
-wildcat, 35
-
-windlass, 35
-
-windward, 25
-
-[Illustration]
-
- The saltiest thanks of the author and artist go to the following
- who, in one way or another, have helped make this book possible:
- Margaret Gossett; R. L. Jones of the Old Bay Line; Inez M. DeVille
- of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Penelope Spurr of the United
- Fruit Company; Arthur L. Pleasants, Captain, USN; Samuel S. Yeaton,
- Colonel, USN, Ret.; the Cleveland, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce: the
- Lake Carriers Association, the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News,
- Virginia; the National Maritime Union, CIO; the Norfolk Chamber of
- Commerce; the Pennsylvania Railroad; the State of Washington;
- Department of Fisheries; the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce;
- Seatrain Lines, Inc.; the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); the
- State of New York, Department of Public Works; the United States
- Coast and Geodetic Survey; the United States Coast Guard; the
- United States Lines; and finally to a modest AB and to many people
- who have written careful, enthusiastic books about ships and
- seafaring men.
-
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-
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- SHIPS AT WORK
-
- _By_ Mary Elting
-
- _Illustrated by_ Manning deV. Lee
-
-
-Here is the colorful, exciting life of the sea--the men, the ships they
-sail, the work they do, the cargoes they carry to the far corners of the
-world--all vividly presented.
-
-Freighters, tankers, ferries, tugs, and the many unusual ships that do
-highly specialized jobs are shown in action. The work, the sailor’s
-language, the kind of life a seaman lives, the use of recent inventions
-(such as radar) all contribute to this fascinating picture of SHIPS AT
-WORK. The newest and proudest of ocean liners, the “United States,” is
-pictured and described as well as the humblest dugouts and sailing
-vessels of ancient times.
-
-The illustrator, famous for his marine paintings, has combined beauty
-with clear, sharp detail. His many full-color pictures in this book give
-added interest to your seafaring knowledge.
-
-You will find this book an exciting companion to TRAINS AT WORK, TRUCKS
-AT WORK, MACHINES AT WORK.
-
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-
- _By_ Mary Elting
-
- _Illustrated by_ Laszlo Roth
-
- [Illustration]
-
-
-There are machines to dig, to hammer, to push--to do every kind of heavy
-job and to make work thousands of times easier and faster.
-
-On farms, in the mines, in cities where huge buildings are built and out
-in the woods where powerdriven saws slice through great trees, many
-kinds of special machines do many kinds of remarkable jobs.
-
-Can you imagine a giant shovel so huge that it took 45 freight cars to
-haul it from factory to mine? Do you know that there is a machine that
-plucks the feathers off chickens, ones that pick corn, dig potatoes?
-Inventors of machines work on everything--they even had fun making a
-mechanical mouse that can sniff about until it finds a piece of “cheese”
-and then “remember” and run straight to it next time!
-
-As marvelous and complicated as all these machines are, the author
-points out that no inventions will ever be as wonderful as the men who
-invented them--and the men who make them work.
-
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_003" id="page_003"></a>{3}</span>&nbsp; </p>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_004" id="page_004"></a>{4}</span>&nbsp; </p>
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-Copyright 1946, 1953 by Duenewald Printing Corporation.<br />
-Lithographed in the United States of America.<br />
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_005" id="page_005"></a>{5}</span></p>
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-<h1>SHIPS AT WORK</h1>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_006" id="page_006"></a>{6}</span></p>
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-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 412px;">
-<a href="images/ill_003_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_003_sml.jpg" width="412" height="550" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_007" id="page_007"></a>{7}</span></p>
-
-<p class="c"><big>
-<img src="images/ships.png"
-width="400"
-alt="SHIPS
-AT WORK
-By Mary Elting"
-/>
-</big></p>
-
-<p class="cb">
-<img src="images/colophon.jpg"
-width="225"
-alt="colophon"
-/><br />
-<br />
-<small>ILLUSTRATED BY</small><br />
-<big>MANNING DE V. LEE<br />
-<br />
-GARDEN CITY BOOKS
-
-<span style="margin-left: 2em;">GARDEN CITY, N.Y.</span></big><br />
-</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_008" id="page_008"></a>{8}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 550px;">
-<a href="images/ill_004_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_004_sml.jpg" width="550" height="347" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_009" id="page_009"></a>{9}</span></p>
-
-<h2>SHIPS AND MEN</h2>
-
-<p>A ship is a marvellous thing. It took ships&mdash;and the men who sail
-them&mdash;to circle the world and tie it all together into one round ball.
-Brave seamen from a thousand ports have faced storms and unknown
-dangers, first to make the world a bigger place for people to live in,
-then to bring all people close together.</p>
-
-<p>No matter how dangerous the voyage nor what she carries, a ship is
-always “she” to a seagoing man. He never calls a freighter or a tanker
-or any large vessel a boat. Only shoreside people who have never been to
-sea make the mistake of calling a ship a boat. And shoreside people
-never know the excitement and fun&mdash;and the long, hard work&mdash;that the
-skillful men of the sea know every day of their lives.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_010" id="page_010"></a>{10}</span></p>
-
-<h2>STANDING WATCH</h2>
-
-<p>Jim is a sailor on a freighter carrying cargo across the Atlantic Ocean.
-Every morning at half-past three, someone comes into the forecastle.
-That’s the seamen’s name for their sleeping quarters. They pronounce it
-“foke-sull.”</p>
-
-<p>Jim mumbles a little. Then the light goes on. The sailor who has waked
-him wants to be sure he doesn’t go back to sleep. With half-open eyes,
-Jim sees his clothes hanging from hooks. Back and forth they sway as the
-ship pitches and rolls. Jim is so used to sleeping in rough weather that
-he hadn’t even noticed when a storm blew up in the night.</p>
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-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 376px;">
-<a href="images/ill_005_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_005_sml.jpg" width="376" height="264" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-
-<p>Now he’s wide awake, and so are the other men in the forecastle. Jim
-swings his legs over the side of his<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_011" id="page_011"></a>{11}</span> bunk, in a hurry to get dressed in
-well-washed blue dungarees, a turtleneck sweater instead of a shirt,
-thick socks and a heavy woolen pea coat. That’s a sailor’s winter jacket
-with pockets that slant in sideways. He makes sure his sharp knife is
-dangling from a snap on his belt. No telling when it might come in
-handy. Then he sticks a knitted blue stocking cap on his head and
-reaches for his fleece-lined mittens.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 371px;">
-<a href="images/ill_006_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_006_sml.jpg" width="371" height="216" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Jim wants to be warm. He knows the wind will be sharp, even though his
-ship is headed for the warm Mediterranean Sea. It’s wintertime and still
-cold out on the Atlantic Ocean.</p>
-
-<p>Jim and the three men who share his bunkroom are ready for work&mdash;almost
-ready. First they go down the passageway to the mess, which is their
-word for dining room. There they have coffee from a big steaming urn<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_012" id="page_012"></a>{12}</span>
-that is always kept full and hot. In another minute Jim steps out onto
-the leeward side of the deck&mdash;the side away from the wind. Although he’s
-in a hurry, he waits there sheltered from the wind for a few minutes
-while his eyes get used to the dark. Jim is going to stand his watch.
-That means he will work for four hours.</p>
-
-<p>Jim is an AB&mdash;an Able Bodied Seaman. An AB works out on deck instead of
-down inside the ship in the engine room or in the kitchen, which he
-calls the galley. All the men who work on a ship are seamen. Only
-deckhands are called sailors. And only those sailors who have passed
-examinations and have been at sea for a certain length of time are AB’s.
-The other sailors are called ordinary seamen or ordinaries for short.</p>
-
-<p>As soon as his eyes can see in the dark, Jim walks toward the bow which
-is the front of the ship. As the deck rises and falls and tilts under
-his feet, he manages from long practice, to keep his balance, but he
-also slides one hand along the rail on top of the bulwark, a kind of low
-wall that runs all around the deck.</p>
-
-<p>In good weather he would go to the bow and stand there, watching for
-anything there might be in the ocean ahead. But tonight waves may splash
-over the bow. An unexpected wave can knock a man down or even wash him
-overboard. It will be safer high up in<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_013" id="page_013"></a>{13}</span> the crow’s nest above the deck.
-Besides he can see farther from up there. So Jim climbs to the little
-enclosed platform high on the foremast.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 428px;">
-<a href="images/ill_007_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_007_sml.jpg" width="428" height="188" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
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-
-<p>In a very bad storm Jim would not go outside. He would stand watch in
-the wheelhouse. This is a room with a big window high above the deck in
-the part of the ship called the house. The room gets its name because
-the wheel that steers the ship is in it.</p>
-
-<p>Jim knows it is good manners always to be a little early when you go to
-take the place of another seaman whose watch is over. So he doesn’t
-waste any time as he scrambles up the steel rungs in the ladder on the
-mast.</p>
-
-<p>He pokes his head through the hole in the floor of the crow’s nest.
-There he finds Juan, who is cold and glad enough to climb down and get
-into his warm bunk.</p>
-
-<p>Juan has a telephone strapped on his head. He uses<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_014" id="page_014"></a>{14}</span> it to talk with the
-third mate, the officer in charge of the ship who works in the
-wheelhouse. When Juan sees Jim, he says into the telephone, “Crow’s nest
-to wheelhouse&mdash;being properly relieved, sir.” Now the mate, listening to
-the loudspeaker in the wheelhouse, knows that Jim is the lookout in the
-crow’s nest.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 432px;">
-<a href="images/ill_010_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_010_sml.jpg" width="432" height="135" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Jim puts the telephone on his head and leans against the rail around the
-small platform that sways far to one side, then to the other. Soon he
-hears the ship’s bell, a faint sound above the storm&mdash;“Ding-ding,
-ding-ding, ding-ding, ding-ding.” Eight bells. It is exactly four
-o’clock. At four-thirty the bell rings again, just once. Two bells will
-be five o’clock, and so on until eight, when there will be eight bells
-again.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 432px;">
-<a href="images/ill_009_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_009_sml.jpg" width="432" height="120" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>For a long time there is nothing for Jim to see but great gray waves
-rising and lifting the ship, and once in a while splashing over the
-decks way down below. Then far ahead and to the right Jim sees a tiny
-speck of light.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_015" id="page_015"></a>{15}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 438px;">
-<a href="images/ill_011_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_011_sml.jpg" width="438" height="250" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>“Crow’s nest to wheelhouse,” he calls into the phone. “White light two
-points on the starboard bow.” The mate knows from this where to look for
-the light. The diagram on page 16 shows the words Jim will use when he
-tells the mate to look in other directions.</p>
-
-<p>Jim thinks the white light probably comes from another ship. Soon he
-knows it does. He can see two white lights very close together and a
-green light a little below them. He and the mate know that a green light
-is always shown on the right or starboard side of a vessel that’s
-moving. There is no danger. Jim’s ship and the other one are a long way
-apart and are not headed for each other. If Jim saw both a green light
-and a red light with two white lights above them, he would be alarmed.
-This would mean a ship coming straight at him.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_016" id="page_016"></a>{16}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 446px;">
-<a href="images/ill_012_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_012_sml.jpg" width="446" height="240" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Now and then spray from the waves blows all the way to the crow’s nest,
-and Jim is glad of a protecting shield that comes up almost as high as
-his face. But he can feel the wind anyway, and he can hear it roar
-through the rigging. He almost has to shout into the phone so the mate
-can hear him.</p>
-
-<p>The safety of the ship depends on Jim. Even in the darkness he can see a
-great deal from his high perch. He may notice the white foam of waves
-ahead behaving in a strange way. This could be the wreck of a
-half-sunken ship that would tear a hole in his own ship and send her to
-the bottom. If he dozed off, he might fail to sight some danger. So he
-must keep alert every minute. He’s responsible for the lives of all his
-shipmates, and he takes his job seriously.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_017" id="page_017"></a>{17}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 429px;">
-<a href="images/ill_013_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_013_sml.jpg" width="429" height="620" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Jim watches the dark, heaving ocean for two hours. He’s glad when his
-coffee time comes. That’s ten minutes of rest he gets after standing
-watch for two hours. When another lookout comes to the crow’s nest to
-take his place, he warms up in the mess and then goes to the wheelhouse.
-There he works for two hours steering the ship. He stands his watch at
-the wheel.</p>
-
-<p>The wheelhouse is dark, so that the mate can see through the big windows
-anything that the lookout reports. The only light comes from
-instruments, such as the compass. Jim watches the compass to make sure
-he is steering in the right direction. The mate tells him what direction
-the captain has ordered the ship to go. But the compass can’t be their
-only guide.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_018" id="page_018"></a>{18}</span></p>
-
-<p>When you guide yourself by a compass on a hike across a wide meadow, you
-can keep going in a straight line because nothing pushes you to one side
-or the other. But at sea the wind is always pushing against a ship,
-making it slip sideways. Currents in the water push, too. The current
-may be going one way and the wind in another. There are no trees or
-mountains on the ocean to help seamen know exactly where they are. So
-they can use the sun and stars as their guides.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, the sun, stars and moon keep moving. But they travel in an
-orderly way. If a seaman knows the rules about their motion, he can look
-at them through special instruments and figure out where he is. He can
-navigate.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 341px;">
-<a href="images/ill_014_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_014_sml.jpg" width="341" height="213" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>More than two hundred and fifty years ago, an American boy named
-Nathaniel Bowditch went to sea and discovered that sailors didn’t have
-any good, accurate rules for steering by the stars. He decided to do<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_019" id="page_019"></a>{19}</span>
-something about the problem. Before long he had worked out a set of
-rules that were so good that every man in his crew could navigate&mdash;even
-the cook!</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 393px;">
-<a href="images/ill_015_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_015_sml.jpg" width="393" height="207" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>The mate on Jim’s ship has instruments with which he looks at the sun
-and stars. And he still uses the book that Nathaniel Bowditch wrote so
-long ago.</p>
-
-<p>Besides the wheel and the compass, there are other instruments in the
-wheelhouse. One is the engine room telegraph. The mate uses this when he
-wants the ship to go faster or slower, forward or backward. He moves the
-handle of the telegraph, and a bell jangles in the engine room. Another
-telegraph there, exactly like the one in the wheelhouse, shows the
-engineer at what speed the ship should go. To let the mate know he has
-received the order, the engineer sends the same signal back on the
-telegraph, and a bell in the wheelhouse jangles, too.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_020" id="page_020"></a>{20}</span></p>
-
-<p>By eight o’clock, when it is daylight, Jim’s watch is over. He goes
-below, as seamen say, and sits down with his messmates&mdash;all the others
-in the crew who aren’t on watch&mdash;for a big breakfast of orange juice,
-bacon, eggs and flapjacks. Then he goes to sleep.</p>
-
-<p>A little before noon he is up again. The storm was not a bad one. The
-sun is shining, and it is warm out on deck. Jim has all afternoon until
-four o’clock to himself. This is how he spends it: First he gets a
-bucket of cold water and puts it under a little faucet that brings up
-steam from the engine room. He runs steam into the water, and it’s hot
-in a few seconds. Out on the afterdeck, sailors have rigged up a
-washboard.</p>
-
-<p>Jim spreads his dirty clothes on the board and scrubs them with a brush
-and soap and his steam-heated water. Seamen do a lot of washing. They
-like to keep their clothes clean. Often they do their own mending, too.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 403px;">
-<a href="images/ill_016_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_016_sml.jpg" width="403" height="225" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>While Jim’s clothes dry on a regular clothesline on<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_021" id="page_021"></a>{21}</span> the afterdeck, he
-gets out his ditty bag which holds all kinds of odds and ends, including
-needles and thread and a sailor’s palm. The palm is what a sailor uses
-instead of a thimble for pushing a big needle through heavy canvas. In
-the old days when ships had sails to be mended, these palms were very
-necessary, but nowadays most sailors only use them the way Jim does. He
-is making a sea bag to take the place of his old one that has worn out.
-The sea bag is his trunk. He carries it on his shoulder whenever he
-changes ships.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 321px;">
-<a href="images/ill_017_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_017_sml.jpg" width="321" height="162" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>While Jim sews, he sings, and other seamen who are off watch sing too.
-One of them plays a banjo, and another has a harmonica. Some of the
-songs are the ones you hear any day on the radio, and others are songs
-that seamen themselves have made up.</p>
-
-<p>These sailor songs are called chanteys&mdash;pronounced shantys. On old
-sailing vessels men sang them as they worked together, and the rhythm of
-their work set the rhythm of the music. Here is a chantey that helped<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_022" id="page_022"></a>{22}</span>
-them pull together on the rope that lifted a sail:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry">
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Way! Haul away! We’ll haul away the bowline.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Way! Haul away! We’ll haul away, Joe.<br /></span>
-</div></div>
-</div>
-
-<p>In those days, before there were engines to do work, men used a
-hand-turned machine called a capstan to raise the anchor or tighten
-heavy lines. They turned it round and round by pushing against long bars
-called capstan bars. As they pushed, they sang:</p>
-
-<div class="poetry">
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">Yo, heave ho! Round the capstan go.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Heave, men, with a will. Tramp, and stamp it still!<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">The anchor must be weighed, the anchor must be weighed.<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">Yo-ho! Heave ho! Yo-ho! Heave ho!<br /></span>
-</div></div>
-</div>
-
-<p>Now, while the singing goes on, Jim takes his turn at having a haircut.
-For a barber’s chair he uses a bitt. That’s a round piece of steel that
-sticks up out of the deck at just the right height. It’s used at times
-for holding big ropes that seamen call hawsers.</p>
-
-<p>The barber is a man from the black gang. That means he works in the
-engine room. When he is off watch, he likes to make a little extra money
-cutting hair. So he puts a sheet around Jim and starts to work.
-Chiquita, the ship’s cat, takes a playful swipe at a dangling corner of
-the sheet, and then goes off in search of a rat that may have come
-aboard in port.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_023" id="page_023"></a>{23}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 422px;">
-<a href="images/ill_018_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_018_sml.jpg" width="422" height="564" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_024" id="page_024"></a>{24}</span></p>
-
-<p>The barber has pictures tattooed on his forearms, and Jim laughs as he
-watches them. On one arm is a picture of an old sailing ship. As the
-barber’s muscles move, they make the ship look as if wind is blowing on
-the sails. On the other arm is a beautiful lady chasing butterflies.
-When the barber opens and closes the scissors, the lady looks as if she
-is dancing after the butterflies.</p>
-
-<p>Just before four o’clock, Jim goes to mess again. Then he’s on watch for
-four more hours to put in the rest of his eight hours of work in a
-twenty-four hour day. He stands lookout again for two hours and takes
-the wheel for two more. Now his day is done.</p>
-
-<h2>SEA LANGUAGE</h2>
-
-<p>When Jim first went to sea, he found that seamen speak a language of
-their own. A floor is always a deck. A partition between rooms is a
-bulkhead. A ceiling is the overhead. Stairs are always a ladder. The
-opening onto a deck at the head of the steps is a companionway. Almost
-all ropes are called lines.</p>
-
-<p>One day another seaman said to Jim: “The bosun wants you to break out
-the handy billy in the forepeak and take it aft to Chips. He’s abaft the
-mizzenmast.” This is what all those words mean:</p>
-
-<p>The bosun is a man who acts as foreman, giving<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_025" id="page_025"></a>{25}</span> orders to deckhands.
-“Break out” means “take from its regular storage place.” The handy billy
-is a combination of small wheels called blocks with a line running
-around them. It is handy for moving heavy weights. The forepeak is a
-storeroom under the main deck at the bow where the bosun keeps tools and
-equipment. Chips is the ship’s carpenter. Aft means toward the stern of
-the ship, and abaft means “behind, in the direction of the stern.” The
-mizzenmast is the third mast, counting from bow to stern.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 420px;">
-<a href="images/ill_019_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_019_sml.jpg" width="420" height="146" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Jim also had to learn that anything toward the bow of the ship is
-forward. Anything toward the middle is amidships, and anything crosswise
-is athwart or thwartships. Anything on the windy side of a ship is to
-windward. (A good sailor never spits to windward.) Anything on the side
-away from the wind is to leeward&mdash;pronounced “loo-urd.” When Jim goes up
-on deck he goes topside; when he climbs a mast, he goes aloft.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
-<a href="images/ill_020_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_020_sml.jpg" width="300" height="83" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_026" id="page_026"></a>{26}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 149px;">
-<a href="images/ill_021_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_021_sml.jpg" width="149" height="543" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Jim had to learn the commands that the mate gives him when he is at the
-wheel steering the ship. Helm is another word for the wheel, and
-helmsman is the man who steers. (On some ships, Jim would not steer at
-all. Steering is often the special job of AB’s called quartermasters who
-don’t do much of anything else.)</p>
-
-<p>Suppose the mate says to Jim, “Mind your rudder.” That means Jim must
-steer carefully or get ready for a new order. “Steady as you go” means
-keep on going just as you are.</p>
-
-<p>The wheelhouse is sometimes called the pilot house. The pilot is a man
-who specializes in guiding ships in and out of harbors. A small boat
-brings him out from shore. Usually he climbs aboard on an accommodation
-ladder, a whole flight of stairs which is lowered from a deck. But
-sometimes he has to climb a Jacob’s ladder, which is simply wooden steps
-fastened to ropes that hang down the ship’s side.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_027" id="page_027"></a>{27}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 417px;">
-<a href="images/ill_022_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_022_sml.jpg" width="417" height="300" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>The pictures explain some more words Jim had to learn. A pier or a wharf
-is a platform sticking out into the water. Ships tie up alongside it.
-Seamen sometimes call a pier a dock, but a dock is really the water
-between piers.</p>
-
-<p>A hatch or hatchway is an opening in the deck of a vessel. People can go
-down a hatch, and so can cargo. Big strong poles called booms raise and
-lower cargo through hatches. Booms are attached to single masts on some
-ships; on others, to pairs of posts called king posts or Samson posts or
-goal posts. When seamen fasten heavy layers of canvas over the hatches,
-they say they <span class="pagenum"><a name="page_028" id="page_028"></a>{28}</span>“batten down the hatches.”</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 162px;">
-<a href="images/ill_023_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_023_sml.jpg" width="162" height="482" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Backstay, stay and shroud are all wire ropes that brace the masts. The
-poop deck is a deck at the stern. Taffrail is the rail around the stern.
-The taffrail log is a kind of speedometer that tells how far the ship
-has travelled. It is made up of a line attached to a little propeller
-which measures miles as it is dragged through the water.</p>
-
-<p>The beam is the widest part of a ship. The keel is the lowest part. The
-bilge is the low, rounded bottom of the ship. Any water that seeps into
-a ship collects there and has to be pumped out. Ballast is a weight of
-some sort, low in a ship to balance her or keep her down in the water so
-her propellers can work when she has no cargo. Draft is the depth of
-water needed to float a vessel. When Jim says his ship “draws twelve
-feet,” he means the keel is twelve feet under water when she is loaded.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 392px;">
-<a href="images/ill_024_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_024_sml.jpg" width="392" height="64" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_029" id="page_029"></a>{29}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;">
-<a href="images/ill_024a_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_024a_sml.jpg" width="442" height="112" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<h2>OTHER JOBS</h2>
-
-<p>A sailor knows how to do many things besides stand lookout and steer. If
-a line breaks, he can mend it by splicing the ends together with a tool
-called a marlinspike. If lines wear thin, he puts in new ones&mdash;and lines
-are needed in a great many places on even the most modern ships.</p>
-
-<p>Sailors know how to tie many different kinds of knots. Each one is good
-for special kinds of work. For instance, a sheepshank is made in a line
-to shorten it. Jim calls a bad knot a gilligan hitch.</p>
-
-<p>Painting is something else that sailors do all the time. On one trip Jim
-painted the mizzenmast. For this job he sat in a bosun’s chair. You’ll
-see a picture of it on page 31. When he works high above the deck he
-always has his paint brush tied to his wrist. Then, if it slips out of
-his hand, it can’t fall and hit anyone below.</p>
-
-<p>All the sailors get their orders from the bosun, whom they call “Boats.”
-That’s because the real spelling of bosun is boatswain. The bosun gets
-his orders from the mate on watch who gets his orders from the captain.
-The captain is in charge of everything. Seamen<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_030" id="page_030"></a>{30}</span> call him the skipper or
-the master or the Old Man.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 410px;">
-<a href="images/ill_025_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_025_sml.jpg" width="410" height="176" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>The “Chief” (chief engineer) and his three assistant engineers get
-orders from the skipper, too. The firemen in the engine room help the
-engineer carry out the orders. When they are on watch, they look through
-little peep holes into the oil burning furnaces to make sure the fires
-are burning just right. They keep an eye on the steam pressure gauges.</p>
-
-<p>At the same time, men called oilers keep every part of the ship’s huge
-engines and other machinery well oiled. On some ships there is a big
-piston, like the driving rod on railroad engine wheels. One end of it
-moves in a circle. The oiler has to squirt oil in a little cup at the
-end of the piston. Every time the cup swings up where he can reach it,
-he aims his oil can. He is very careful to aim straight. If he misses
-the cup, oil splashes all over.</p>
-
-<p>No matter how careful he is, some oil does get spilled and spattered
-around. It is the job of the oiler<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_031" id="page_031"></a>{31}</span> to wipe it up and to polish all the
-brass fixtures, which he calls the brightwork. On deck, ordinary seamen
-polish the brightwork.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 149px;">
-<a href="images/ill_026_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_026_sml.jpg" width="149" height="561" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>One man is in charge of all the food on a ship. He is the steward, and
-the cooks work under him, and so do the messmen who are the waiters and
-dish washers.</p>
-
-<p>The radio man sends and receives all radio messages. He is called
-sparks.</p>
-
-<p>All the seamen who work on cargo vessels, and on passenger vessels, too,
-are divided up the same way into the deck department, the engine
-department and the steward’s department.</p>
-
-<p>As the great engine deep down in Jim’s ship pushes her through the calm
-blue water of the Mediterranean Sea, he stands watch in the bow. Now he
-begins to catch sight of small sailing vessels. When his ship enters the
-port of Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile River in Egypt, he is close
-to the place where much of the story of ships began.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_032" id="page_032"></a>{32}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 182px;">
-<a href="images/ill_029_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_029_sml.jpg" width="182" height="545" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>PAPYRUS REED CANOE. The people of Egypt discovered long ago that bundles
-of papyrus reed would hold up a man’s weight in the water. Later, they
-tied the bundles into a canoe shape which was easy to handle.</p>
-
-<p>EGYPTIAN DUGOUT. A log hollowed out in the shape of a reed canoe was
-stronger, and it lasted longer. By adding boards to a dugout along the
-top of each side, Egyptians had a vessel that could carry bigger loads.
-Paddles and their own muscles were all they had for power.</p>
-
-<p>EGYPTIAN SAILING VESSEL. Here the power of wind was added to the power
-of oarsmen. Luckily the winds of Egypt blew from north to south and
-helped push sailing vessels up the Nile.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_033" id="page_033"></a>{33}</span></p>
-
-<p>GALLEYS. Greeks and Romans used sail-and-oar vessels called galleys.
-Slaves, chained to their seats, rowed in rhythm. There were many slaves,
-so their masters could get extra muscle-power by seating two, three or
-more banks of oarsmen on each side. A ship with two banks was a bireme;
-with three, a trireme.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 196px;">
-<a href="images/ill_027_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_027_sml.jpg" width="196" height="524" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>DHOW. Other people around the Mediterranean Sea discovered they could do
-away with oarsmen by making better use of windpower. They invented
-triangular sails called lateen sails to take the place of square ones.
-Lateen-rigged dhows are still used. Columbus had both square and lateen
-sails on the Santa Maria. All three of his ships together were not as
-long as Jim’s freighter.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 434px;">
-<a href="images/ill_028_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_028_sml.jpg" width="434" height="105" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_034" id="page_034"></a>{34}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 389px;">
-<a href="images/ill_032_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_032_sml.jpg" width="389" height="185" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>New things begin to happen as Jim’s ship nears port. He goes down into
-the forepeak under the deck in the bow. There, all around, are neat
-coils of hawser which is as thick as his arm. He and other sailors shove
-one end of a hawser up the ladder. Men on deck grab it and wrap it
-around a sort of spool called a winch head. Now the winch turns the
-spool and does the work of lifting out the heavy line. The deckhands lay
-it neatly on the decks ready to use when the ship ties up at a pier.</p>
-
-<p>Next Jim goes up to the bow and helps Chips, the carpenter, break cement
-out of the hawse pipes. A hawse pipe is a hole in the ship’s side. An
-anchor chain runs through it. Whenever a ship raises, or weighs, its
-anchors and starts on a long trip, Chips plugs up the hawse pipes with
-cement. This keeps water from splashing up through the pipes in a storm.</p>
-
-<p>On modern ships, a machine called a windlass raises and lowers the
-anchors. In the old days, when sailors<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_035" id="page_035"></a>{35}</span> had to raise anchors by turning
-the capstan by hand, they had a phrase for officers who worked their way
-up from being deckhands. They said these officers came up “through the
-hawse pipe.” Officers who got their knowledge from going to school and
-studying books were said to “come in through the cabin window.”</p>
-
-<p>After the cement is out of the hawse pipe, Jim takes the devil’s claws
-off the anchor chains and releases the riding pawls. These are two
-brakes on the anchor chain which you can see in the picture. Now only
-the brake on the windlass holds the anchor chain in position over the
-wildcat, which is the wheel on the windlass.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 391px;">
-<a href="images/ill_033_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_033_sml.jpg" width="391" height="247" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>The captain signals from the bridge to let go. Chips releases the
-windlass brake. The big chain rushes up out of the locker, over the
-wildcat and down the hawse pipe with a terrific roar. Soon the ship is
-safely anchored.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_036" id="page_036"></a>{36}</span> The skipper can wait now until there is a vacant pier
-where he can tie up.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 395px;">
-<a href="images/ill_034_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_034_sml.jpg" width="395" height="162" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>After the ship ties up, the captain orders watches broken. The men no
-longer work four hours and rest eight. Now most of them work eight hours
-during the day and have the remaining time off, just the way shoreside
-people do. There is no need for the routine of the sea. Egyptian
-longshoremen will unload the cargo.</p>
-
-<p>Jim puts on a suit he has kept hanging pressed in his locker. Then he
-and Juan go down the gangplank. They are off to see the sights in the
-fascinating Egyptian city&mdash;and to buy souvenirs.</p>
-
-<p>But before they have gone very far from the waterfront where a tangle of
-masts and booms and stacks marks the skyline, they meet Lars, an old
-shipmate of theirs. That’s not so strange as you might think. A sailor
-often changes ships, and he gets to have many friends who travel just as
-much as he does. While they eat an Egyptian meal in an Egyptian
-restaurant, Lars says he’s<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_037" id="page_037"></a>{37}</span> on a tanker now. She’s in Alexandria getting
-her rudder repaired. It broke in a storm, but the men fixed up something
-to take its place. They called it a jury rudder.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 459px;">
-<a href="images/ill_035_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_035_sml.jpg" width="459" height="373" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Lars’s tanker looks very different from a freighter. She is long and low
-and has two houses. One is midships, and the officers’ quarters and
-wheelhouse are there. The crew lives in the other house at the stern.</p>
-
-<p>Between the two houses the deck is so low that<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_038" id="page_038"></a>{38}</span> waves often wash over
-it, and so there has to be a high bridge called a walkaway or a catwalk.</p>
-
-<p>Lars says his particular tanker carries “clean” oil. By that he means
-oil that has been refined into different grades of gasoline. “Dirty” oil
-is crude oil just the way it comes out of the wells. Lars is a tankerman
-and a seaman. He has taken a special examination for his job. He knows
-all the ways to pump different kinds of oil in and out of the tanks on a
-ship. He knows how to keep gasoline from exploding. He has learned to
-use special equipment. For instance, he never goes down to clean a tank
-on his ship without an oxygen mask and a lifeline. The lifeline is tied
-around him so that a seaman on deck can haul him up if fumes in the tank
-knock him out.</p>
-
-<p>Like most seamen, Lars has travelled all over the world. In China he has
-seen junks and sampans. He has seen fishing boats in Portugal with big
-eyes painted on the bows because sailors thought that helped the boats
-to see their way. Eyes of the same kind have been painted on ships for
-hundreds of years in many other places, even in Chesapeake Bay.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 437px;">
-<a href="images/ill_037_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_037_sml.jpg" width="437" height="125" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_039" id="page_039"></a>{39}</span></p>
-
-<p>OUTRIGGER. Long ago South Sea Islanders sailed great distances, guiding
-themselves by the stars. The outrigger at the side gives their small
-vessel balance in rough water.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 199px;">
-<a href="images/ill_036_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_036_sml.jpg" width="199" height="564" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>JUNK. The sails of this Chinese ship are made of bamboo slats braced by
-bamboo rods. The rudder is so big that often a dozen men have to work on
-it. Many junks have colored sails.</p>
-
-<p>
-
-WEGIAN SHIPS. Old Viking ships that sailed from Norway had both oars
-and brightly decorated sails. Vikings were such good seamen they crossed
-the Atlantic in their open ships. Norwegians are still seafarers. Boys
-who want to be sailors get training on a sailing ship.</p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 208px;">
-<a href="images/ill_038_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_038_sml.jpg" width="208" height="85" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_040" id="page_040"></a>{40}</span></p>
-
-<p>Lars used to work on a tanker that brought oil from the Persian Gulf.
-When he went ashore there, he saw boats just like the earliest ones that
-men invented thousands of years ago. He saw boats that were really big,
-round clay pots, built by people in places where there was plenty of
-clay but very little wood. He saw huge basket boats woven from a kind of
-grass and waterproofed with a covering of tar. Some of the basket boats
-were big enough to carry twenty passengers&mdash;or several men and three
-horses!</p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 403px;">
-<a href="images/ill_039_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_039_sml.jpg" width="403" height="557" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Smaller basket boats were used as lighters. (A lighter is any craft that
-helps to unload freight from another.) Here on the Tigris River, the
-freight was carried on a large raft supported<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_041" id="page_041"></a>{41}</span> by animal skins blown up
-like balloons. A little raft floating downstream sometimes carried its
-owner, his donkey and the grain he had to sell. After selling the grain,
-the boatman took the skins from under the raft, let the air out, piled
-them on the donkey’s back and walked back home upriver.</p>
-
-<p>Out at sea, whenever Lars sees a life raft on the top deck, he realizes
-it is just like the skin-float rafts he saw on the Tigris River. Instead
-of blown-up skins, water-tight metal containers filled with air hold the
-life raft up. When Lars puts on his life jacket for lifeboat drill, he
-is getting ready to use a float, just the way people long ago used
-bundles of reeds. Even though men have learned so much about ships in
-all the years since they first started to travel on water, they still
-use some of the first knowledge they ever acquired.</p>
-
-<p>All of these things interest Lars. He grew up by the sea in Norway, and
-his people have been seamen since the days of the Vikings. But best of
-all he likes the clean, modern, comfortable tankers. He is not only
-going somewhere himself when he is on a tanker. He is also helping to
-carry a cargo that helps other people to go places.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 423px;">
-<a href="images/ill_040_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_040_sml.jpg" width="423" height="107" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_042" id="page_042"></a>{42}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 410px;">
-<a href="images/ill_041_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_041_sml.jpg" width="410" height="192" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<h2>SEATRAINS</h2>
-
-<p>Lars’s tanker was built to do a very special kind of job. So were many
-other kinds of ships. Look at the Seatrain, which carries fully loaded
-freight cars&mdash;a hundred of them at a time.</p>
-
-<p>To load a Seatrain, the railroad locomotive pushes a string of cars out
-onto a long pier. A derrick lifts the cars up one by one, swings them
-over an open hatch, and lowers them neatly onto tracks in the ship’s
-hold. After the holds are filled, there’s still room for more cars on
-the main deck outside.</p>
-
-<p>It seems queer for trains to travel by ship, but sometimes that’s the
-best way to send cargo. Freight cars can be filled with sugar on the
-island of Cuba and brought across the water to the United States,
-without any extra loading and unloading. It’s often cheaper for freight
-cars to go by ship than by rail from New York to Savannah or New Orleans
-or Texas City.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_043" id="page_043"></a>{43}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 413px;">
-<a href="images/ill_042_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_042_sml.jpg" width="413" height="372" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<h2>BANANA BOATS</h2>
-
-<p>Banana boats do their own particular kind of work, too. Actually, they
-aren’t boats, although they do carry bananas. They are refrigerator
-ships. Seamen call them reefers&mdash;just as railroad men call a
-refrigerator car a reefer. Everything about a banana boat is arranged to
-keep her cargo cool. She is even painted white, because white things
-reflect some of the sun’s rays into the air<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_044" id="page_044"></a>{44}</span> instead of absorbing their
-heat. Inside the ship, blowers send cool air circulating around the
-bananas all the time. It isn’t enough just to chill them once and leave
-them there. Bananas actually make heat themselves. So a constant cool
-breeze is needed to carry their heat away. The ships that bring bananas
-from Central America do keep them in the refrigerator.</p>
-
-<p>A banana boat is fast, for she must rush the green fruit from the farm
-to market as quickly as possible. There are even very quick ways of
-loading and unloading. Machines called gantries stand on the pier where
-the ship ties up. The gantries carry the big bunches of bananas in soft
-canvas pockets arranged in an endless chain. Men on the dock lay the
-bunches, one after another into the pockets. Men inside the ship take
-them out and stow them away.</p>
-
-<p>A banana boat sailor does just about the same things that sailors on
-other cargo vessels do. He steers and stands lookout and works on deck.
-And like all sailors he has lifeboat drills. Every ship that sails the
-seas must have lifeboats. Look for them on some high deck, where they
-are easy to get at in emergencies. Canvas covers on the boats keep out
-rain and snow and protect the things stowed inside.</p>
-
-<p>A lifeboat is equipped with everything that you<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_045" id="page_045"></a>{45}</span> may need if you have to
-float around on the open sea after your ship has gone down. There are
-water-tight containers full of food, drinking water and matches. There
-are oars and sails and life jackets, first-aid equipment and ropes.
-There are flares to light, so that rescuers can locate the boat, and
-pistols that shoot signal flares like Roman candles high into the air.
-There are scoops called bailers for dipping water out of the boat. And
-each lifeboat carries a supply of storm oil. When this oil is spread out
-on the water, it keeps stormy waves from breaking near the boat. If a
-wave breaks too close, it may fill the boat with water and sink it.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
-<a href="images/ill_043_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_043_sml.jpg" width="400" height="224" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>The can of storm oil fits inside a cone-shaped canvas bag called a sea
-anchor. The sea anchor floats ahead of the boat and keeps it pointed
-toward the wind,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_046" id="page_046"></a>{46}</span> while the oil drips slowly out and calms the waves.
-It’s important to be pointed into the wind, because a boat that bobs
-around sidewise can easily be tipped over by a wave. Long ago sailors
-discovered what a wonderful help oil can be in stormy weather, and
-that’s where the expression “oil on troubled waters” came from. It means
-to calm things down.</p>
-
-<p>A blast from the ship’s whistle tells seamen when it’s time for lifeboat
-drill. Every man knows which boat he’s supposed to use. He runs first
-for his life jacket, then up the ladders by the shortest route to his
-boat. All the knots and fastenings on the boat are made so that they can
-be loosened with one jerk. Quickly the men work machines called davits
-that are always in perfect order, ready to swing the lifeboat out over
-the water. In a real emergency, the boats would be lowered into the sea,
-and the men would scramble down rope ladders which are kept ready on
-deck. But in a drill, seamen just test the davits and lines.</p>
-
-<p>Most lifeboats are double-enders. This means that the bow and stern are
-rounded and look just alike. The rounded shape helps keep waves from
-tumbling in at either end. Lifeboats are modeled after the old-time
-boats in which sailors rowed away from sailing vessels when they went
-out to harpoon whales.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_047" id="page_047"></a>{47}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 436px;">
-<a href="images/ill_045_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_045_sml.jpg" width="436" height="564" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_048" id="page_048"></a>{48}</span></p>
-
-<h2>“THAR SHE BLOWS”</h2>
-
-<p>Nowadays, a group of very modern vessels go out together on whaling
-expeditions. A big ship called the factory ship waits in one place while
-a half-dozen or more killer boats cruise around hunting whales. The
-killer boats are power driven, and they are almost as big as an old-time
-sailing ship.</p>
-
-<p>In June or July, one of these little fleets sets out for the South
-Pacific. At the whaling grounds, each killer boat begins its search.
-Suddenly&mdash;“Thar she blows!” A whale rises to the surface and spouts. The
-killer boat dashes after it. The harpooner in the bow aims a gun that’s
-fastened to the deck. The harpoon in the gun is as tall as a man and
-heavy, with an explosive charge in its pointed head, and a line attached
-to the shaft. When the head strikes the whale, the charge goes off
-inside, killing the great animal. The harpoon barbs spread out. Now the
-whale is held tight at the end of the line. The killer boat tows it back
-to the factory ship.</p>
-
-<p>The stern of the factory ship is open. A ramp leads up from the water to
-the ship’s after deck. Machinery pulls the whale up the ramp and onto
-the deck. There men with knives that look like big hockey sticks cut up
-the blubber and throw it into vats where the whale oil is boiled out.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_049" id="page_049"></a>{49}</span></p>
-
-<p>Hour after hour the killer boats bring in whales, sometimes forty or
-fifty a day&mdash;or even more! Everybody works day and night, with very
-little time to eat and sleep. The oil tanks in the factory ship begin to
-fill up. Now an ordinary tanker comes alongside. The whale oil is pumped
-from the factory ship to the tanker which delivers it at some big port
-thousands of miles away.</p>
-
-<p>When at last the factory ship again has all the oil she can hold, she
-steams off toward home. For seven or eight months her crew has not been
-ashore.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 430px;">
-<a href="images/ill_046_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_046_sml.jpg" width="430" height="274" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Now, as well as in the old days, men on whaling vessels proudly bring
-home scrimshaw. That is carving they have done on the teeth or jawbones
-of whales. It is often very delicate and beautiful.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_050" id="page_050"></a>{50}</span></p>
-
-<p>On the return trip the factory ship’s speed is much less than when she
-started out&mdash;and not just because her tanks are full. In June her hull
-was smooth and freshly painted, and it slipped easily through the water.
-Now in February she has barnacles all over the hull under water&mdash;such a
-rough coat of barnacles that she’s held back a great deal.</p>
-
-<p>Barnacles are tiny sea creatures that grow by the millions. They attach
-themselves to anything under water and form hard little shells. They
-hold so tightly to the ship that they must be chipped off. That’s a job
-to be done in a place called drydock.</p>
-
-<h2>DRYDOCK</h2>
-
-<p>All ships go to drydock for regular cleaning and repairing and painting.
-This is what happens: The ship noses into a place surrounded by three
-concrete walls. Huge water-tight gates swing shut behind her, penning
-her in. Mooring lines hold her steady in the exact center of the dock,
-and pumps go to work taking out all the water in which she floats.
-Slowly the ship settles into a sort of cradle that has been prepared on
-the floor of the dock to fit her hull just right. When the water is all
-out, there she stands, balanced and braced. Now men can work under her
-and all over her&mdash;and inside. They<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_051" id="page_051"></a>{51}</span> scrape off the barnacles, paint the
-hull, and repair any parts that have begun to wear out. To reach some
-parts of the hull painters use long-handled brushes&mdash;really long.
-They’re often three times as tall as a man!</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 418px;">
-<a href="images/ill_048_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_048_sml.jpg" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Experts go over the ship as carefully as doctors examine people. But
-many men work at top speed in shifts around the clock, and a ship often
-spends only twenty-four hours in drydock. Then the gates open. Water
-flows back into the dock. The ship floats again, ready to go to sea.</p>
-
-<p>Sometimes a ship can’t get to drydock. Then a floating drydock comes to
-the ship. It works the same way as a regular one. Floating drydocks have
-traveled to distant parts of the world, pulled by seagoing tugs.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_052" id="page_052"></a>{52}</span></p>
-
-<h2>TUGS</h2>
-
-<p>A tug is a vessel that looks small but has an enormously powerful
-engine&mdash;an engine almost as big as one that moves a cargo ship. In fact,
-the tugboat’s job is to push and pull cargo and passenger ships around.</p>
-
-<p>Big ships need help getting in and out of the narrow spaces between
-piers in a harbor. If they used only their own power, they might either
-smash themselves up or crush the piers. Tugs, working together, can push
-a little here, pull a little there, and ease a huge vessel gently into
-place.</p>
-
-<p>A tugboat captain must have a great deal of knowledge about the harbor
-in which he works. In order to pass his captain’s examination, he has to
-draw a map of the harbor from memory, showing every pier and marker and
-even the rocks, hills and valleys underwater. Most important, he must
-have a feel for what a ship is going to do when he nudges her at a
-certain point or when he reverses his propeller and pulls.</p>
-
-<p>For all his skill and responsibility, the captain wouldn’t think of
-wearing a uniform at work. He prefers old work clothes, and he sits down
-with the crew when the cook serves up jumbo-sized meals.</p>
-
-<p>The cook goes on duty in the galley at any time from one o’clock in the
-morning on, depending on what<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_053" id="page_053"></a>{53}</span> time the tug must start work. Breakfast
-may be at three or four, but the usual time is six. And often the cook’s
-job isn’t over at four in the afternoon when he serves supper. If the
-tug is working overtime, he fixes a meal called a “midnight snack” which
-the men eat perhaps around seven o’clock. There’s enough food in the
-snack to feed a shoreside person for a whole day.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 404px;">
-<a href="images/ill_049_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_049_sml.jpg" width="404" height="212" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Besides the captain and the cook, a tug needs a chief engineer, an
-oiler, a fireman and a deckhand. The deckhand works with the hawsers
-that are often used when a tug has to pull a big ship.</p>
-
-<p>This is what happens: An AB aboard the ship holds a coil of light line,
-called a heaving line. At the end of the line is a ball-shaped knot
-called a monkey fist. The AB gives a big swing and sends the monkey fist
-and line flying down to the tug. The deckhand on the tug<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_054" id="page_054"></a>{54}</span> grabs for the
-line. He’s not an outfielder trying to catch the ball. The monkey fist
-is there only to make the line uncoil and go straight.</p>
-
-<p>The deckhand pulls on the heaving line, which is attached to a hawser on
-the ship. (Sailors don’t say the line is attached or tied. They say it’s
-“bent” to the hawser.) The hawser is so big that it can’t be thrown, but
-it can be hauled onto the tug by the heaving line. The deckhand makes
-the hawser fast to a bitt on the tug’s deck, and now she can pull.</p>
-
-<p>For pushing jobs the tug has a thick pad called a bow fender made of
-heavy rope hung over the bow. After the fender has been used a while, it
-gets worn and shaggy and is often called a “beard.” It protects any ship
-the tug is pushing. There are fenders along each side of a tug, too.
-Sometimes they are made of rope. Sometimes they are old automobile tires
-or just logs hung loosely over the side. The logs get so much banging
-around that they may have to be replaced every few days.</p>
-
-<p>Very often a tug has something on its bridge that looks like a gun. It’s
-not. It’s a water nozzle attached to a pump, and it’s there to help
-fight fires on ships.</p>
-
-<p>The kind of tug that you can see on the Mississippi River is called a
-towboat. She doesn’t tug, and she<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_055" id="page_055"></a>{55}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 426px;">
-<a href="images/ill_051_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_051_sml.jpg" width="426" height="568" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_056" id="page_056"></a>{56}</span></p>
-
-<p class="nind">doesn’t tow. She just pushes. A Mississippi towboat gets behind a whole
-string of flat-bottomed barges and shoves them up and down rivers. She
-often pushes ten barges at a time, loaded with twice as much cargo as an
-ordinary seagoing freighter can carry.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 432px;">
-<a href="images/ill_053_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_053_sml.jpg" width="432" height="194" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Many towboats have all of the latest inventions for quick and safe
-travelling in water that is often more tricky than the open sea. There’s
-a lot of traffic to watch out for on the Mississippi, and the river
-sweeps around in many bends. Mud collects on the river bottom, so the
-captain can’t always know how deep the water is going to be. Uprooted
-trees and other big things that could damage vessels often come floating
-downstream. And when it’s pitch dark, or when a thick fog hangs over the
-water, all these problems get much worse.</p>
-
-<p>Radar is one of the inventions that help towboats avoid danger. Radar
-sends out radio waves which<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_057" id="page_057"></a>{57}</span> bounce back to the towboat from anything
-they hit. In the towboat’s pilothouse is a radarscope, which is a little
-like a television screen. The returning radio waves show up as spots of
-light called pips on the radarscope. By looking at the pips, the pilot
-can locate the shores of the river, other vessels, floating trees and
-anything else that’s dangerous.</p>
-
-<p>Another wonderful invention, called a depth recorder, tells the pilot
-how deep the water is under the head barge in his tow. If the river
-seems to be getting shallow, he can steer the whole tow into safer
-water. The depth recorder works by sending out sound waves and making a
-record of them when they bounce back from the river bottom.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 412px;">
-<a href="images/ill_054_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_054_sml.jpg" width="412" height="240" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>In the old days, river craft had a leadman who measured depth with a
-line tied to a lead weight. Knots and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_058" id="page_058"></a>{58}</span> pieces of leather marked the
-line. Even at night the leadman could tell by feel how deep the water
-was. For instance, if his fingers felt that the line was wet up to a
-place where there were two strips of leather, he would know that two
-fathoms (twelve feet) of water lay underneath. Two markers at two
-fathoms. “By the mark twain,” the leadman would call out to the captain.</p>
-
-<p>There was once a Mississippi River pilot named Samuel Clemens who, like
-all pilots, loved to hear that call. It meant that there was enough
-water to keep his vessel afloat. Later, when he began to write books, he
-signed them with the name Mark Twain.</p>
-
-<p>In Mark Twain’s time, the Mississippi River boats were driven by huge
-paddle wheels. As the wood-burning steam engine turned the wheels, the
-paddles pushed against the water and shoved the boat forward.</p>
-
-<p>Steam engines began working in rivers very quickly after the first
-successful paddle boat, the Clermont, proved that she could push
-upstream. River boatmen needed engines more than seafaring men did,
-because winds seldom blow upstream as they do on the Nile.</p>
-
-<p>Before there were paddleboats, men took cargo down the Mississippi in
-keelboats. Then they had to get the boats up-river again almost entirely
-by muscle-power. Pushing against the bottom with poles, or pulling<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_059" id="page_059"></a>{59}</span> with
-ropes from the shore, river boatmen worked the whole way up from New
-Orleans to Pittsburgh.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 458px;">
-<a href="images/ill_055_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_055_sml.jpg" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>A river boatman still works hard, but in a very different way. In his
-time off, he may listen to radio or even watch television on board the
-towboat. In the old days, he would have caught fish and fried them over
-a fire built in a pile of sand on the keelboat deck. Today the cook
-takes food from a freezer, prepares it on an electric range, and stows
-the dirty dishes in an automatic dishwasher.</p>
-
-<p>In the old days, the river was the quickest way for<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_060" id="page_060"></a>{60}</span> passengers to
-travel, and for freight, too. People now go faster by bus or train or
-plane. But there’s more and more cargo for the barges to carry on the
-Mississippi and the other rivers that flow into it. Oil, coal, grain,
-steel, ore, sulfur are some of the things that move along ahead of the
-powerful streamlined towboats.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 367px;">
-<a href="images/ill_056_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_056_sml.jpg" width="367" height="140" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<h2>GREAT LAKES SHIPS</h2>
-
-<p>Grain, coal, ore and limestone for making steel travel on Great Lakes
-ships, too. So do many other kinds of cargo. Long ago, explorers
-believed that the enormous sea-like lakes would lead them all the way
-around the world to China. One man even wore Chinese clothes as he
-paddled westward in an Indian canoe, so he would be properly dressed
-when he arrived!</p>
-
-<p>For nearly three hundred years since then, vessels have used these great
-inland waterways to carry goods and the most precious cargo of
-all&mdash;people. Settlers by the thousand from Germany, Sweden, Scotland and
-other countries filled the decks of sailing vessels and paddle
-steamboats that took them right up to the frontier. Today almost five
-hundred modern cargo vessels<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_061" id="page_061"></a>{61}</span> shuttle back and forth on the Lakes,
-carrying the wealth that the descendants of those pioneers have created.</p>
-
-<p>A Great Lakes ship doesn’t look like any other. She is broad and low and
-very long&mdash;so long, in fact that she is less rigid than most ships.
-Seamen say she feels “willowy” if she steams along in heavy weather
-after her cargo is unloaded. The wheelhouse of a Lakes ship is forward
-in the bow, along with quarters for the officers and a few passengers.
-The engine and the crew’s quarters are away at the stern. In between,
-are holds&mdash;a great many more of them than on any ocean-going ship.
-Marvellous loading machines dump ore or any other loose cargo into the
-holds. Other wonderful unloading machines quickly scoop the cargo out.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 407px;">
-<a href="images/ill_057_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_057_sml.jpg" width="407" height="224" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Many of the ships run between ports on Lake Huron and Lake Superior.
-Lake Superior is 22 feet<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_062" id="page_062"></a>{62}</span> higher than Lake Huron. So ships must use a
-sort of ladder to get from one to the other through a canal called the
-Sault Sainte Marie&mdash;or Soo for short. Locks in the canal are the
-ladder-rungs. Suppose a ship is going up. She enters the narrow canal.
-Ahead are gates. Gates close behind her. She is in a lock. Now the gates
-in front open and let more water into the lock, lifting the ship higher.
-She moves forward into another lock and is lifted again in the same way.
-Sometimes as she goes along, seamen on board toss money to ice cream
-sellers on shore, and catch the pop-sticks that are thrown back.</p>
-
-<p>For eight months each year, the Lake ships keep hurrying back and forth
-between Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago, Duluth and other port
-cities. There’s hardly a time when a man can’t see smoke from other
-vessels on the horizon. Then winter comes, and the Lakes freeze over.
-Lake sailors tie up their ships and go ashore. Most of them have been on
-the water day and night through the whole season.</p>
-
-<p>Sometimes a ship stays out too late in the year and can’t get to port
-because ice has locked her in. Then a ship called an ice breaker comes
-to her rescue. An ice breaker smashes up ice early in the spring, too,
-so that ships can begin to move.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_063" id="page_063"></a>{63}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 420px;">
-<a href="images/ill_058_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_058_sml.jpg" width="420" height="558" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_064" id="page_064"></a>{64}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 406px;">
-<a href="images/ill_059_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_059_sml.jpg" width="406" height="238" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<h2>AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIPS</h2>
-
-<p>Merchant seamen man all the different kinds of cargo ships you see in
-the pictures on these two pages. Their jobs take great skill and
-patience and very often courage. It has always been that way with men
-who follow the sea. Some of the things they do are as old as ships
-themselves. But many things are different now.</p>
-
-<p>On old sailing vessels, the crew had to get their sleep wherever they
-could find a place to lie down. They might curl up on a coil of rope or
-on the cargo in the hold. Later, they were given one room, the
-forecastle, for the whole crew. Everybody was on watch at least twelve
-hours a day. It is only in the last twenty years that seamen have worked
-eight regular hours a day.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_065" id="page_065"></a>{65}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 390px;">
-<a href="images/ill_060_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_060_sml.jpg" width="390" height="244" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Almost all ships now have more comfortable bunkrooms, with only two or
-four men in each one. Instead of living on old-fashioned salt meat and
-salt fish and crackers called hardtack, seamen have almost the same
-things that they eat ashore. In the old days, seamen often got a disease
-called scurvy because they had no fresh food. Then the British
-discovered that lime juice prevented scurvy, and every one of their
-ships carried barrels of it. That’s why American seamen still call
-British seamen limeys.</p>
-
-<p>There are laws and regulations now that provide for better food and
-working hours and pay on ships. Seamen in their unions have worked hard
-to get the laws and rules that have made life better for them.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_066" id="page_066"></a>{66}</span></p>
-
-<h2>FISHING VESSELS</h2>
-
-<p>Fishermen have always been among the most daring and hardworking men of
-the sea. For thousands of years they have experimented and invented,
-always in search of the boats and ships and nets that will do the best
-job for them. New England fishermen used to be great whittlers of ship
-models. They carved out their models partly for fun, partly to give
-shipbuilders new ideas for improving their designs.</p>
-
-<p>One of the great fishing towns is Gloucester, Massachusetts, and there’s
-a story about it that goes this way: Almost two hundred and fifty years
-ago, a ship builder in Gloucester launched a vessel that everyone
-admired. On the day when she first slid into the water, a big crowd
-gathered to watch. She was graceful and light, and she fairly skimmed
-along&mdash;the way a flat stone does when a boy skips it over the water. In
-those days in New England, some people called skipping “scooning.”</p>
-
-<p>All at once, someone in the crowd called out, “See how she scoons!” The
-builder called back, “A scooner let her be!” And according to the story,
-the name schooner&mdash;a new spelling&mdash;has stuck to this very day.</p>
-
-<p>A modern schooner still has sails, but not so many as the early ones. An
-engine now gives her power, so<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_067" id="page_067"></a>{67}</span> that she can make fast time to and from
-the fishing grounds, and her sails are used mostly to steady her in the
-sea while the men work. The engine also helps with the heavy work of
-handling the nets.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 426px;">
-<a href="images/ill_061_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_061_sml.jpg" width="426" height="374" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Each kind of fish has its own habits, and the fishermen know them well.
-Some fish, such as cod and flounder, live down near the floor of the
-sea. They are caught in drag nets which are towed at the right speed
-behind<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_068" id="page_068"></a>{68}</span> the vessel. Men haul the net in, dump the catch into ice-cooled
-bins in the hold, then drag the net again.</p>
-
-<p>Mackerel behave differently. They swim along in huge groups called
-schools near the surface of the water. The lookout man on the mast keeps
-his eye on the sea till he can yell, “School O!” Quickly the men lower a
-boat that sets a huge net called a purse-seine. At first the net is
-really a fence. Hundreds of floating corks at the top, and lead weights
-at the bottom, hold it in place, while the seine-boat draws it into a
-circle around the fish. Then, at a signal, a motor in the seine-boat
-pulls on a sort of drawstring in the bottom of the net, closing it and
-turning it into a kind of giant sack. The seine is “pursed” with the
-fish trapped inside.</p>
-
-<p>This is what happens on a lucky day. But mackerel can be very irritating
-fish. Sometimes the whole school will suddenly dive and race away to
-safety, just the moment before the trap closes. Fishermen must have
-patience as well as skill.</p>
-
-<p>Before engines went to sea, the men had to purse the seine by hand.
-Since their schooner carried no ice, they cleaned the fish, salted them
-and packed them into barrels as fast as possible. Everybody, including
-the skipper, worked at top speed. Even the cook lent a hand, and he was
-often a boy of ten who hung his pots<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_069" id="page_069"></a>{69}</span> in an open fireplace or smoked
-some of the mackerel in the chimney.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 412px;">
-<a href="images/ill_062_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_062_sml.jpg" width="412" height="320" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Fleets of fishing vessels go out together when the season is right.
-There’s a race for the fishing grounds, and then a race back to deliver
-the catch to market. In fishing towns all around the seacoasts, small
-forests of masts fill the harbors when the fleets are in.</p>
-
-<p>Among the schooners you can also see sturdily-built trawlers, which are
-usually driven by steam-power. Newest of all are the vessels that work
-like quick-freeze<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_070" id="page_070"></a>{70}</span> factories. Machines on board clean the fish, cut them
-up, package them and freeze them right where they are caught. Or the
-fishermen may quick-freeze the whole fish, then bring them back to be
-thawed and sent to market.</p>
-
-<p>People in fishing towns are proud of their fleets, and there’s a warm
-welcome for the vessel that comes in first with a big load.</p>
-
-<h2>THE UNITED STATES</h2>
-
-<p>The day a ship returns safely has always been important to seafaring
-men. It’s especially important if she has made a new record of some
-kind. All the seamen in New York harbor were excited when the passenger
-liner United States came in after crossing the Atlantic faster than any
-other liner had ever done. And they all showed their respect in the
-traditional way.</p>
-
-<p>On tugs and freighters, on tankers, on other liners, skippers passed
-down the word, “Break out the bunting!” This meant take out all the
-brightly colored signal flags and hang them on the stays. (On page 91
-you can find out what the signal flags are.) The United States had her
-bunting out, too. When she appeared in the harbor, every vessel there
-greeted her with tremendous whistle blasts. Fireboats filled the air
-with high curving streams of water from all their nozzles.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_071" id="page_071"></a>{71}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 420px;">
-<a href="images/ill_064_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_064_sml.jpg" width="420" height="558" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_072" id="page_072"></a>{72}</span></p>
-
-<p>Aboard the United States, the members of the crew were more excited than
-any one else in the harbor, but their work went right on through all the
-happy hullaballoo. The AB’s got ready to tie their huge ship up. Others,
-from the black gang to the steward’s department, were busy with
-last-minute jobs. Working together as one huge team, they had made the
-world’s fastest crossing. On the trip from New York to England, the
-United States averaged 35.9 knots. (That means she travelled nearly 42
-land miles an hour. Seamen never say “knots per hour.” They just say
-knots.) Before that the passenger liner Queen Mary held the record. It
-took the United States 10 hours and 2 minutes less than the Queen Mary
-to cross the ocean.</p>
-
-<p>The United States is really more than a ship. With a thousand people in
-her crew and two thousand passengers, she is a floating town. Besides
-the seamen who do their regular seamen’s work, there are crew members
-with special jobs. In the ship’s shopping centers, storekeepers sell
-souvenirs, and all kinds of things that passengers want and need. Movie
-operators work in her two theaters. A children’s nurse takes care of
-children in the nursery. A veterinarian cares for pets on board. Guards
-watch over the swimming pool. A doctor and a registered nurse are ready
-in the ship’s hospital to<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_073" id="page_073"></a>{73}</span> help anyone who is sick. Air conditioning
-experts see that every room in the ship is kept at the right
-temperature. Everything from the engine room to the dog kennels is
-air-conditioned.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 404px;">
-<a href="images/ill_065_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_065_sml.jpg" width="404" height="248" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Curtains, chair covers and rugs on the ship are made of material that
-doesn’t burn. There is no wood at all in the ship except in the
-butchers’ chopping blocks and in the pianos. But suppose a passenger
-drops a match into a wastebasket in his stateroom. There’s an automatic
-smoke-smelling gadget that sends a signal to a room on the bridge. The
-officer there turns on the fire alarm, then pulls a lever which closes
-that particular stateroom door and blocks the fire off.</p>
-
-<p>There are lifeboats for all three thousand people in case of emergency.
-These lifeboats are driven by propellers<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_074" id="page_074"></a>{74}</span>&mdash;but they have no engines.
-People supply the power for the propeller. They push handles back and
-forth. Even on this most modern ship in the world, there are boats that
-move in the oldest way&mdash;by muscle power.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 401px;">
-<a href="images/ill_067_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_067_sml.jpg" width="401" height="140" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>The four propellers of the liner herself are each as tall as a
-two-storey house. They are turned by enormous steam turbine engines.
-Smoke from the boilers goes out through unusual-looking stacks. Inside
-each one are giant filters that take away most of the soot. Besides,
-there are wings called vanes at the top of the stacks to help keep the
-smoke from swirling down onto the deck.</p>
-
-<p>Although the United States is about five city blocks long and twelve
-decks high, she looks as light and graceful in her way as the old
-clipper ships. The clippers were American sailing vessels that got their
-names because they went at a very fast clip. A hundred years ago they
-held speed records all over the world. No<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_075" id="page_075"></a>{75}</span> wonder the captain of the
-United States proudly said that his seamen were carrying on the clipper
-ship tradition.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 434px;">
-<a href="images/ill_068_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_068_sml.jpg" width="434" height="300" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Many people think the clippers were the most beautiful ships ever built.
-Certainly they were the first sailing ships to be planned by men who
-used scientific ideas in their work. At that time, science was bringing
-modern machinery of all kinds to the world. Inventors had already put
-steam engines into ships, but they had not yet studied what was the best
-shape for a speedy vessel. And speed was becoming very important as more
-people and cargoes crossed the oceans.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_076" id="page_076"></a>{76}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 418px;">
-<a href="images/ill_069_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_069_sml.jpg" width="418" height="211" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>No one knew whether steamships could go fast. But some shipbuilders
-believed that sailing ships could go faster than ever before. They built
-the record-breaking clippers. Soon the magnificent vessels began to have
-races all the way from China to New York and London. It was many years
-before steamships caught up with the clippers, but in the end they
-proved to be faster. More important, they could keep going whether there
-was any wind or not.</p>
-
-<h2>OTHER PASSENGER SHIPS</h2>
-
-<p>It’s the job of a passenger ship to carry people&mdash;and give them a good
-time on their journey. But passenger ships also carry cargo. That’s true
-of big ones and little ones, such as the City of Norfolk which belongs
-to the Old Bay Line, the oldest American shipping company.</p>
-
-<p>The City of Norfolk goes on short trips back and<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_077" id="page_077"></a>{77}</span> forth between Norfolk
-and Baltimore on Chesapeake Bay. She takes on cargo during the day and
-sails at night. Although she’s an old ship, she has radar to help guide
-her through the busy waters of the Bay. All around are fishing craft,
-ferries, ocean-going vessels&mdash;endless traffic through which the officers
-must steer a safe course. In the dark wheelhouse, soft small lights hold
-the key to safety&mdash;the sea-green light by which the man at the wheel
-sees the markings on the compass, the yellow pips and the revolving blue
-line on the radarscope.</p>
-
-<p>In the hold below are automobiles, piles of second-hand truck tires,
-crates holding all kinds of things, copper sheets by the ton which have
-come by train from Utah, and will end up in some eastern factory.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;">
-<a href="images/ill_070_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_070_sml.jpg" width="442" height="217" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_078" id="page_078"></a>{78}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 402px;">
-<a href="images/ill_071_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_071_sml.jpg" width="402" height="159" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Passengers stroll all over the decks. Some are travelling on business;
-some are just sailing for fun. A group of school boys and girls on their
-class trip dance to phonograph records. Their staterooms are
-air-conditioned, but the inside of the ship looks almost as it did in
-their grandmothers’ day, with balconies and big living-rooms called
-saloons.</p>
-
-<p>The City of Norfolk&mdash;and many other ships like her on bays and rivers
-and lakes&mdash;is really a sort of combination ferry boat and hotel. Most
-ferries, of course, have much shorter runs, and they are built to fit
-the needs of their own special work.</p>
-
-<p>Many ferries look exactly the same fore and aft. They have propellers,
-rudders and wheelhouses at both ends, and there’s a good reason why. A
-double-ended ferry makes quick trips back and forth. She can save time
-if she doesn’t have to turn around in the water when she goes in and out
-of her dock which is called a slip.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_079" id="page_079"></a>{79}</span></p>
-
-<p>The big ferries carry automobiles, trucks, and as many as three thousand
-people at a time. Some of them, on long runs, have up-to-date snack bars
-so passengers can get quick meals. For safety, they carry lifeboats and
-life jackets, just as ocean-going vessels do. But a ferry could never go
-to sea. She is built very broad, with very little of her under the water
-and a great deal above. Big ocean waves would tip her over.</p>
-
-<div class="figright" style="width: 134px;">
-<a href="images/ill_072_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_072_sml.jpg" width="134" height="410" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 396px;">
-<a href="images/ill_073_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_073_sml.jpg" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Men have used ferries from the earliest times. Hundreds and even
-thousands of years ago people and animals were ferried across rivers on
-rafts. Even today there are raft-like ferries which men guide across our
-rivers by steel cables.</p>
-
-<p>Train ferries take loaded freight cars across harbors where there are no
-railroad<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_080" id="page_080"></a>{80}</span> bridges. In some harbors, the cars travel on flat-bottomed
-barges which tugboats shove along.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 396px;">
-<a href="images/ill_077_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_077_sml.jpg" width="396" height="174" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Long ago, barges were quite different. They were elegant vessels in
-which kings and important people travelled on rivers. And fancy barges,
-towed along behind paddle steamboats, once carried passengers up and
-down the Hudson River, too. At that time the steam boilers on
-paddleboats often exploded. Many crewmen and passengers were killed. So,
-in order to attract customers, some steamboats towed “safety barges”
-behind.</p>
-
-<p>Nowadays barges are plain cargo vessels that do heavy work. Most of them
-have no power of their own. They must be towed or pushed. The seaman who
-handles a barge is called a barge captain. He must be an AB to get the
-job, and on some barges he lives in a house at the stern. If he has a
-family, they may make their home there the year round.</p>
-
-<p>Before the days of railroads, a whole system of canals joined many of
-the important American cities.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_081" id="page_081"></a>{81}</span> Along these waterways horses or mules
-pulled barge-loads of freight. Many a canal boatman started before he
-was twelve years old, driving a mule on long trips all by himself. There
-are still some canals in use, and powerdriven barges carry cargoes on
-them.</p>
-
-<h2>FIREBOATS AND OTHER HELPERS</h2>
-
-<p>The old-fashioned engines that used to explode are gone now. So are the
-candles and whale-oil lamps that lighted ships. All these caused fires
-in wooden vessels. But even today, when most ships are made of steel,
-with fireproofing equipment, there’s work for fireboats to do.</p>
-
-<p>The seamen aboard fireboats belong to the Fire Department. They do deck
-work or engine work, and they also handle the pumps and nozzles that
-shoot enormous streams of water. The pumps suck in water through holes
-in the side of the boat and force it through hoses and nozzles that can
-be aimed like big guns.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 392px;">
-<a href="images/ill_078_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_078_sml.jpg" width="392" height="215" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Sometimes fireboats go a little way outside their<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_082" id="page_082"></a>{82}</span> harbor to help a
-burning ship. On the way, the fireboat captain guides his vessel between
-buoys that mark the channels where ships can go. All harbors have these
-channels, which are really streets for water traffic. The buoys are
-floating signals anchored to the bottom. On a clear day, seamen can tell
-by looking at the shape and color what each buoy means. In a fog or at
-night, they listen for the bells or whistles on some special buoys and
-watch for the flashing lights on others.</p>
-
-<p>Rivers have channels marked with buoys, too, and men who belong to the
-United States Coast Guard Service have the job of placing and repairing
-them.</p>
-
-<p>The Coast Guard also cares for lighthouses at dangerous points along the
-shore. Powerful lights and foghorns in the lighthouses warn ships away
-from rocks or shallow water and also help them find out exactly where
-they are. In some places, lightships anchored in the sea do this same
-job. A lightship is really a giant buoy. Seamen live aboard her to care
-for the safety equipment. They get their food and mail from vessels
-called tenders. (Any vessel that supplies another is a tender.)</p>
-
-<p>Coast Guardsmen help seamen in other ways, too. Suppose a ship is
-sinking. Fast, tough little Coast Guard cutters race off to the rescue
-the minute the dreaded SOS signal comes over their radio. (SOS is the
-code<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_083" id="page_083"></a>{83}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 424px;">
-<a href="images/ill_079_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_079_sml.jpg" width="424" height="558" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_084" id="page_084"></a>{84}</span></p>
-
-<p class="nind">signal for “help!” and every radio man understands it, no matter what
-language he speaks.)</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 351px;">
-<a href="images/ill_080_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_080_sml.jpg" width="351" height="194" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Using a special gun, men on the cutter shoot a lifeline across to the
-sinking ship, and a breeches buoy is rigged on it. This is a canvas
-seat, made like a pair of short pants. The seat hangs from a wheel
-called a block which runs along the line. One by one the seamen sit in
-the seat and are pulled along to safety.</p>
-
-<h2>CHARTS FOR SAFETY</h2>
-
-<p>In the days when the United States was still a very new country, many
-people in Europe longed for the freedom they were sure they could find
-here. One of them was Ferdinand Hassler, a young Swiss mathematician.
-Hassler was no seaman when he set out for the new world in a sailing
-ship. But luckily he did know a great deal about the stars. After the
-captain of his vessel collapsed in a terrific storm, Hassler was able to
-look at the stars and tell the seamen how to steer the ship.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_085" id="page_085"></a>{85}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 446px;">
-<a href="images/ill_081_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_081_sml.jpg" width="446" height="275" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>The things Hassler knew about mathematics made it easy for him to
-navigate, but real troubles began when the ship came into Delaware Bay.
-The map of the bay was old and very inaccurate. Hassler could not tell
-whether the ship was in shallow water or deep water, except by watching
-the leadline day and night.</p>
-
-<p>This last part of his adventure made young Hassler very angry because it
-was so unscientific. He realized that the safety of all ships depended
-on accurate maps, called charts, of the coasts and harbors. Soon after
-he landed he began to make plans for a survey of the whole American
-coast. He talked to President Jefferson who agreed with him, and
-Congress finally gave him the job. At last his good charts began to help
-save lives.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_086" id="page_086"></a>{86}</span></p>
-
-<p>Today the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey carries on the work
-Hassler started. Using many ships and small boats with marvellous
-equipment, the scientific men of the sea go about their important and
-often dangerous work. It’s their job to map the earth that lies under
-the oceans, rivers and harbors. Here are some of the things they do
-along the Alaskan coast.</p>
-
-<p>A survey ship moves through the water sending sound waves to the bottom
-of the ocean. A delicate machine records the echoes made when the sound
-waves bounce back from the deep valleys and the high mountain tops that
-lie beneath the surface. Scientists know how fast sound travels in
-water, so they can tell exactly how deep it is. But some of the peaks
-are narrow and sharp. Even the wonderful machines miss them. And so
-these very modern vessels must do something old-fashioned and simple.
-Two of them travel side by side with a long wire cable hanging between
-them. If the cable catches on a rock, the men know they have snagged a
-sunken mountain top.</p>
-
-<p>Often, men on shore help the men on ships with their surveying. The
-instruments they use are so delicate that the warmth of direct sunlight
-would cause inaccuracies. One slight error might mean a shipwreck. So,
-even in Alaska, a surveyor works under an umbrella.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_087" id="page_087"></a>{87}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 399px;">
-<a href="images/ill_082_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_082_sml.jpg" width="399" height="216" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>You might think that all the charts and maps should have been finished
-in the long years since President Jefferson’s time. But the work of
-making charts can never be finished. The coastline is always changing.
-Currents and tides, storms and floods shift millions of tons of sand
-near the coast. Earthquakes and volcanoes raise land or lower it. A
-place that was safe for ships yesterday may be dangerous today.</p>
-
-<p>In Alaska, glaciers that run into the sea grow bigger or melt back.
-Sometimes these enormous rivers of ice push themselves out under the
-water. The little survey vessels mapping the ocean’s bottom have to sail
-over the sunken glaciers. There is always danger that, at any moment, a
-great mountain of fresh-water ice may break loose and rush toward the
-surface. When this happens, any vessel nearby is almost certain to be
-destroyed.<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_088" id="page_088"></a>{88}</span></p>
-
-<p>Seafaring men need to know about the tides when they enter or leave
-harbors. Tides are very different at different places along our enormous
-coastline, and they change from one day to another. The Coast and
-Geodetic Survey has worked out a wonderful way of telling ships about
-tides in advance. Every day, records pour into Washington from all along
-the seacoast. The figures they give are put into a fantastic “thinking
-machine,” together with other figures about the sun and moon which cause
-the tides. Electricity is turned on, and in no time the machine tells
-what tides will be like with ordinary weather tomorrow or even next
-month.</p>
-
-<p>Men have come a long way since they first learned to float on a blown-up
-animal skin or a bundle of reeds. For thousands of years, they have been
-inventing new and better ways to travel across water. But the oceans
-have an enormous power and force. Science and seamen still have much to
-learn about the power which they must fight and make work for them&mdash;and
-which will always be exciting.</p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 344px;">
-<a href="images/ill_083_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_083_sml.jpg" width="344" height="189" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_089" id="page_089"></a>{89}</span></p>
-
-<h2>WHAT SEAMEN SAY</h2>
-<div class="figright" style="width: 134px;">
-<a href="images/ill_084_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_084_sml.jpg" width="134" height="510" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Here are some words that you haven’t met in the rest of the book. They
-are all part of seagoing language.</p>
-
-<div class="blockquot"><p>AHOY&mdash;a call given by men on one ship to greet men on another.</p>
-
-<p>AVAST&mdash;an officer shouts “avast” if he wants a seaman to stop
-hauling on a line.</p>
-
-<p>BELAY&mdash;to tie or make fast. A belaying pin is a short rod which can
-be stuck into a holder so that a line can be twisted around it.
-There were many belaying pins on old sailing vessels, and they made
-handy weapons at times.</p>
-
-<p>DEEP SIX&mdash;when a sailor throws something overboard, he “gives it
-the deep six.” The expression comes from the days when sailors
-measured the depth of water with a leadline. The “deep six” was a
-place on the line which showed the water was six fathoms (36 feet)
-deep.</p></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_090" id="page_090"></a>{90}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figleft" style="width: 140px;">
-<a href="images/ill_085_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_085_sml.jpg" width="140" height="573" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-
-<p>FOUL&mdash;Seamen use this word to describe anything that has gone wrong
-or got mixed up. A snarled line is foul. A ship’s hull covered with
-barnacles is foul. Bad weather is foul.</p>
-
-<p>NORWEGIAN STEAM&mdash;seamen say they use “Norwegian steam” when they do
-heavy work without the help of machinery.</p>
-
-<p>SCUTTLE BUTT&mdash;the drinking fountain on a ship. Because seamen often
-gather there to talk, the rumors and gossip that they pass on are
-also called “scuttle butt.”</p>
-
-<p>SEA LAWYER&mdash;a seaman who likes to argue about rules and
-regulations.</p>
-
-<p>SLOP CHEST&mdash;a room where seamen can buy clothes. Every ship is
-required to have one.</p>
-
-<p>SLUMGULLION&mdash;a seaman’s word for stew that he doesn’t like.</p>
-
-<p>TRAMP&mdash;a freighter that ties up anywhere and has no regular
-schedule.</p>
-
-<p>WINDJAMMER&mdash;a sailing vessel.</p></div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_091" id="page_091"></a>{91}</span></p>
-
-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 429px;">
-<a href="images/ill_086_lg.jpg">
-<img src="images/ill_086_sml.jpg" width="429" height="333" alt="[Image unavailable.]" /></a>
-</div>
-
-<p>Code flags make it possible for ships to talk to each other at sea. Each
-flag stands for a number or for a letter in the alphabet. The flags are
-used in combinations&mdash;not to spell out individual words, but to send a
-whole message. For instance, the two flags N and C flown together mean,
-“In distress. Need prompt aid.” No matter what language a seaman speaks
-he knows what this signal means. Some of the other messages he can read
-are IQ&mdash;“Do not pass ahead of me”; RW&mdash;“Where are you from?”; AG&mdash;“Shall
-not abandon my vessel.”
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_092" id="page_092"></a>{92}</span></p>
-
-<h2><a name="INDEX" id="INDEX"></a>INDEX</h2>
-
-<p class="c"><a href="#A">A</a>,
-<a href="#B">B</a>,
-<a href="#C">C</a>,
-<a href="#D">D</a>,
-<a href="#E">E</a>,
-<a href="#F">F</a>,
-<a href="#G">G</a>,
-<a href="#H">H</a>,
-<a href="#I-i">I</a>,
-<a href="#J">J</a>,
-<a href="#K">K</a>,
-<a href="#L">L</a>,
-<a href="#M">M</a>,
-<a href="#N">N</a>,
-<a href="#O">O</a>,
-<a href="#P">P</a>,
-<a href="#Q">Q</a>,
-<a href="#R">R</a>,
-<a href="#S">S</a>,
-<a href="#T">T</a>,
-<a href="#U">U</a>,
-<a href="#V">V</a>,
-<a href="#W">W</a>.</p>
-
-<p class="nind">
-<a name="A" id="A"></a>AB, <a href="#page_012">12</a>, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
-
-Able Bodied Seaman, <a href="#page_012">12</a><br />
-
-accommodation ladder, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
-
-amidships, <a href="#page_025">25</a><br />
-
-anchor, <a href="#page_034">34-35</a><br />
-
-athwartships, <a href="#page_025">25</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="B" id="B"></a>backstay, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-banana boats, <a href="#page_043">43-46</a><br />
-
-basket boat, <a href="#page_040">40</a><br />
-
-barge, <a href="#page_060">60</a>, <a href="#page_080">80</a>, <a href="#page_081">81</a><br />
-
-barnacles, <a href="#page_050">50</a><br />
-
-batten down the hatches, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-beam, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-bells, <a href="#page_014">14</a><br />
-
-bilge, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-bireme, <a href="#page_033">33</a><br />
-
-booms, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-bosun, <a href="#page_024">24</a>, <a href="#page_029">29</a><br />
-
-bosun’s chair, <a href="#page_029">29</a>, <a href="#page_031">31</a><br />
-
-bow, <a href="#page_012">12</a><br />
-
-Bowditch, Nathaniel, <a href="#page_018">18</a>, <a href="#page_019">19</a><br />
-
-brightwork, <a href="#page_031">31</a><br />
-
-bulkhead, <a href="#page_024">24</a><br />
-
-buoy, <a href="#page_082">82</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="C" id="C"></a>canal, <a href="#page_062">62</a>, <a href="#page_080">80</a>, <a href="#page_081">81</a><br />
-
-capstan, <a href="#page_022">22</a><br />
-
-captain, <a href="#page_029">29</a><br />
-
-chantey, <a href="#page_021">21</a>, <a href="#page_022">22</a><br />
-
-charts, <a href="#page_084">84-87</a><br />
-
-Chips, <a href="#page_024">24</a>, <a href="#page_025">25</a>, <a href="#page_034">34</a><br />
-
-Clermont, <a href="#page_058">58</a><br />
-
-clipper, <a href="#page_075">75</a>, <a href="#page_076">76</a><br />
-
-City of Norfolk, <a href="#page_076">76</a>, <a href="#page_077">77</a><br />
-
-Coast Guard, <a href="#page_082">82</a>, <a href="#page_083">83</a><br />
-
-companionway, <a href="#page_024">24</a><br />
-
-compass, <a href="#page_017">17</a>, <a href="#page_018">18</a><br />
-
-crow’s nest, <a href="#page_013">13</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="D" id="D"></a>davit, <a href="#page_046">46</a><br />
-
-depth recorder, <a href="#page_057">57</a><br />
-
-dhow, <a href="#page_033">33</a><br />
-
-dock, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-draft, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-drydock, <a href="#page_050">50-51</a><br />
-
-dugout, <a href="#page_032">32</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="E" id="E"></a>Egypt, <a href="#page_031">31-32</a><br />
-
-engineer, <a href="#page_030">30</a><br />
-
-engine room telegraph, <a href="#page_019">19</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="F" id="F"></a>fathom, <a href="#page_058">58</a><br />
-
-fender, <a href="#page_054">54</a><br />
-
-ferry boats, <a href="#page_078">78</a>, <a href="#page_079">79</a><br />
-
-fireboat, <a href="#page_081">81</a><br />
-
-firemen, <a href="#page_030">30</a><br />
-
-fishing vessels, <a href="#page_066">66-70</a><br />
-
-forecastle, <a href="#page_010">10</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="G" id="G"></a>gantries, <a href="#page_044">44</a><br />
-
-galley, <a href="#page_012">12</a><br />
-
-galleys, <a href="#page_033">33</a><br />
-
-Great Lakes Ships, <a href="#page_060">60-62</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="H" id="H"></a>handy billy, <a href="#page_025">25</a><br />
-
-Hassler, Ferdinand, <a href="#page_084">84-86</a><br />
-
-hatch, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-hawse pipe, <a href="#page_034">34</a><br />
-
-heaving line, <a href="#page_053">53</a><br />
-
-helm, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
-
-helmsman, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="I-i" id="I-i"></a>ice breaker, <a href="#page_062">62</a><br />
-
-International Code flags, <a href="#page_091">91</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="J" id="J"></a>Jacob’s ladder, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
-
-junk, <a href="#page_039">39</a><br />
-
-jury rudder, <a href="#page_037">37</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="K" id="K"></a>keelboat, <a href="#page_058">58</a><br />
-
-king posts, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-knots, <a href="#page_029">29</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="L" id="L"></a>leadline, <a href="#page_057">57</a>, <a href="#page_058">58</a>, <a href="#page_085">85</a><br />
-
-leeward, <a href="#page_025">25</a><br />
-
-lifeboat, <a href="#page_044">44-46</a>, <a href="#page_073">73</a>, <a href="#page_074">74</a><br />
-
-lifeline, <a href="#page_038">38</a><br />
-
-life raft, <a href="#page_041">41</a><br />
-
-lighter, <a href="#page_040">40</a><br />
-
-lights, <a href="#page_015">15</a><br />
-
-limey, <a href="#page_065">65</a><br />
-
-locks, <a href="#page_062">62</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="M" id="M"></a>Mark Twain, <a href="#page_058">58</a><br />
-
-marlinspike, <a href="#page_029">29</a><br />
-
-mate, <a href="#page_014">14</a><br />
-
-merchant ship types, <a href="#page_064">64-65</a><br />
-
-messmen, <a href="#page_031">31</a><br />
-
-mizzenmast, <a href="#page_024">24</a>, <a href="#page_029">29</a><br />
-
-monkey fist, <a href="#page_053">53</a>, <a href="#page_054">54</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="N" id="N"></a>navigating, <a href="#page_019">19</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="O" id="O"></a>oiler, <a href="#page_030">30</a><br />
-
-oil tanker, <a href="#page_037">37-41</a><br />
-
-Old Bay Line, <a href="#page_076">76</a>, <a href="#page_077">77</a><br />
-
-ore carriers, <a href="#page_060">60-62</a><br />
-
-outrigger, <a href="#page_039">39</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="P" id="P"></a>paddleboats, <a href="#page_058">58</a>,<span class="pagenum"><a name="page_093" id="page_093"></a>{93}</span> <a href="#page_080">80</a><br />
-
-papyrus reed canoe, <a href="#page_032">32</a><br />
-
-passenger ships, <a href="#page_070">70-79</a><br />
-
-pea coat, <a href="#page_010">10</a><br />
-
-pier, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-pilot, <a href="#page_026">26</a>, <a href="#page_057">57</a><br />
-
-pilot house, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
-
-poop deck, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-port, <a href="#page_015">15</a><br />
-
-purse seine, <a href="#page_068">68</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="Q" id="Q"></a>Queen Mary, <a href="#page_072">72</a><br />
-
-quartermaster, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="R" id="R"></a>radar, <a href="#page_056">56</a>, <a href="#page_057">57</a>, <a href="#page_077">77</a><br />
-
-radio man, <a href="#page_031">31</a><br />
-
-raft, <a href="#page_040">40</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="S" id="S"></a>SOS, <a href="#page_082">82</a>, <a href="#page_083">83</a><br />
-
-sailor, <a href="#page_012">12</a><br />
-
-sailor’s palm, <a href="#page_021">21</a><br />
-
-Samson posts, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-Santa Maria, <a href="#page_033">33</a><br />
-
-schooner, <a href="#page_066">66</a>, <a href="#page_067">67</a><br />
-
-scrimshaw, <a href="#page_049">49</a><br />
-
-sea anchor, <a href="#page_045">45</a><br />
-
-Seatrain, <a href="#page_042">42</a><br />
-
-sheepshank, <a href="#page_029">29</a><br />
-
-shroud, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-sparks, <a href="#page_031">31</a><br />
-
-standing watch, <a href="#page_010">10-19</a><br />
-
-starboard, <a href="#page_015">15</a><br />
-
-stay, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-steward, <a href="#page_031">31</a><br />
-
-storm oil, <a href="#page_045">45</a>, <a href="#page_046">46</a><br />
-
-survey ships, <a href="#page_086">86-87</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="T" id="T"></a>taffrail log, <a href="#page_028">28</a><br />
-
-tanker, <a href="#page_037">37-41</a><br />
-
-tides, <a href="#page_088">88</a><br />
-
-towboat, <a href="#page_054">54-59</a><br />
-
-trawler, <a href="#page_069">69</a><br />
-
-trireme, <a href="#page_033">33</a><br />
-
-tugs, <a href="#page_052">52-59</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="U" id="U"></a>United States, <a href="#page_070">70-74</a><br />
-
-United States Coast Guard, <a href="#page_082">82</a>, <a href="#page_083">83</a><br />
-
-United States Coast Guard and Geodetic Survey, <a href="#page_086">86-87</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="V" id="V"></a>Viking ships, <a href="#page_039">39</a><br />
-
-<br />
-<a name="W" id="W"></a>watch, <a href="#page_012">12</a><br />
-
-whaler, <a href="#page_048">48-49</a><br />
-
-wharf, <a href="#page_027">27</a><br />
-
-wheel, <a href="#page_017">17</a><br />
-
-wheelhouse, <a href="#page_013">13-14</a>, <a href="#page_017">17</a>, <a href="#page_026">26</a><br />
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-wildcat, <a href="#page_035">35</a><br />
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-windlass, <a href="#page_035">35</a><br />
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-windward, <a href="#page_025">25</a><br />
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-<div class="blockquot"><p>The saltiest thanks of the author and artist go to the following
-who, in one way or another, have helped make this book possible:
-Margaret Gossett; R. L. Jones of the Old Bay Line; Inez M. DeVille
-of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad; Penelope Spurr of the United
-Fruit Company; Arthur L. Pleasants, Captain, USN; Samuel S. Yeaton,
-Colonel, USN, Ret.; the Cleveland, Ohio, Chamber of Commerce: the
-Lake Carriers Association, the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News,
-Virginia; the National Maritime Union, CIO; the Norfolk Chamber of
-Commerce; the Pennsylvania Railroad; the State of Washington;
-Department of Fisheries; the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce;
-Seatrain Lines, Inc.; the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); the
-State of New York, Department of Public Works; the United States
-Coast and Geodetic Survey; the United States Coast Guard; the
-United States Lines; and finally to a modest AB and to many people
-who have written careful, enthusiastic books about ships and
-seafaring men.</p></div>
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="page_094" id="page_094"></a>{94}</span></p>
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-$1.50<br />
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-<p class="cb"><big><big>SHIPS<br /> AT WORK</big></big></p>
-
-<p class="c"><i>By</i> Mary Elting</p>
-
-<p class="c"><i>Illustrated by</i> Manning deV. Lee</p>
-
-<p>Here is the colorful, exciting life of the sea&mdash;the men, the ships they
-sail, the work they do, the cargoes they carry to the far corners of the
-world&mdash;all vividly presented.</p>
-
-<p>Freighters, tankers, ferries, tugs, and the many unusual ships that do
-highly specialized jobs are shown in action. The work, the sailor’s
-language, the kind of life a seaman lives, the use of recent inventions
-(such as radar) all contribute to this fascinating picture of SHIPS AT
-WORK. The newest and proudest of ocean liners, the “United States,” is
-pictured and described as well as the humblest dugouts and sailing
-vessels of ancient times.</p>
-
-<p>The illustrator, famous for his marine paintings, has combined beauty
-with clear, sharp detail. His many full-color pictures in this book give
-added interest to your seafaring knowledge.</p>
-
-<p>You will find this book an exciting companion to TRAINS AT WORK, TRUCKS
-AT WORK, MACHINES AT WORK.</p></td><td>
-<img src="images/ill_090_sml.jpg" width="145" height="362" alt="[Image unavailable.]" />
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-</td></tr>
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-<img src="images/ill_091_sml.jpg" width="111" height="364" alt="[Image unavailable.]" />
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-<p class="cb"><big><big>MACHINES<br /> AT WORK</big></big></p>
-
-<p class="c"><i>By</i> Mary Elting</p>
-
-<p class="c"><i>Illustrated by</i> Laszlo Roth</p>
-
-<p>There are machines to dig, to hammer, to push&mdash;to do every kind of heavy
-job and to make work thousands of times easier and faster.</p>
-
-<p>On farms, in the mines, in cities where huge buildings are built and out
-in the woods where powerdriven saws slice through great trees, many
-kinds of special machines do many kinds of remarkable jobs.</p>
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-<p>Can you imagine a giant shovel so huge that it took 45 freight cars to
-haul it from factory to mine? Do you know that there is a machine that
-plucks the feathers off chickens, ones that pick corn, dig potatoes?
-Inventors of machines work on everything&mdash;they even had fun making a
-mechanical mouse that can sniff about until it finds a piece of “cheese”
-and then “remember” and run straight to it next time!</p>
-
-<p>As marvelous and complicated as all these machines are, the author
-points out that no inventions will ever be as wonderful as the men who
-invented them&mdash;and the men who make them work.</p>
-
-<p class="cb">Garden City Books</p>
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-<p class="c">Garden City, New York</p>
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