; it being for the ordinary snatch-block, or for the cleat, so oxide." made in two parts which embrace the rod of the much used on shipboard. This device is a very con- handle, C ; when the catch is pulled open the rod is PALMER'S PULLET BLOCK. venient one for the purpose mentioned previously,… … a crew of twenty men to handle it; the 20-tun ingenious method for taking up the slack of a miles in fifty-two hours. His defence of Knoxville gun in the monitors can be worked by three, or at "fall," or rope, when attached to a block or pulley. against the besieging forces of the rebel Longstreet,…
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