The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution (1911)
Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company; London, Seeley and co., limited · leaf 126
t-ing part is cut off so as to make the sail four-sidedinstead of three, and to resemble those early mainsailswhich we spoke of just now as existing on the earlyfore-and-aft ships of the sixteenth century. Finally aboom is added to the sail, with sheets, and from thepeak vangs, or guy-ropes, which… … English and Dutch Warships of the Time of Charles II. Some of them were over fifteen hundred tons, and the English ships were rivalled bythe excellent vessels which the Dutch and French were then constructing. It was inCharles II.s reign that the Dutch invaded the Medway and burned our ships. AND…
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