ROPY  See also:

• PLAN
• PLAN (from Lat. planes, flat)

PLAN MIOSNIP See also:

• SECTION
• SECTION (Lat. sectio, cutting, secare, to cut)

SECTION . on the See also:

• BRITISH

British shores . Many vessels are See also:

• CAST (from the verb meaning " to throw "; the word is Scand. in origin, cf. Dan. kaste, and Swed. kasta; " cast " in Middle Eng. took the place of the A.S. weor pan, cf. Ger. werf en)

cast every See also:

• YEAR

year on the rocky parts of the coasts, under cliffs, where no See also:

• LIFE

life-See also:

• BOAT (0. Eng. bdt; the true etymological connexion with Dutch and Ger. boot, Fr. bateau, Ital. battello presents great difficulties; Celtic forms are from O. Eng.)

boat could be of service . In such places the See also:

• ROCKET

rocket alone is available . The rocket apparatus consists of five See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal parts, viz. the rocket, the rocket-See also:

• LINE

line, the See also:

• WHIP

whip, the See also:

• HAWSER

hawser and the See also:

• SLING (from M. Eng. slingen, to fling, throw with a jerk, Icel. slyngva, cf. Ger. schlingen, to twist)

sling life-See also:

• BUOY

buoy . The mode of working it is as follows . A rocket, having a See also:

• LIGHT

light line attached to it, is fired over the See also:

• WRECK

wreck . By means of this line the wrecked See also:

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

crew haul out the whip, which is a See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double or endless line, rove through a See also:

• BLOCK
• BLOCK (from the Fr. bloc, and possibly connected with an Old Ger. Block, obstruction, cf. " baulk ")
• BLOCK, MAURICE (1816–19or)

block with a tail attached to it . The tail-block, having been detached from the rocket-line, is fastened to a See also:

• MAST (2) (Anglo-Saxon maest, food, common to some Teutonic languages, and ultimately connected with " meat")
• MAST (I) (O. Eng. maest; a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. malus; from the medieval latinized form mast us comes Fr. malt)

mast, or other portion of the wreck, high above the See also:

• WATER

water . By means of the whip the rescuers haul off the hawser, to which is hung the travel-See also:

• LING, PER HENRIK (1776-1839)

ling or sling life-buoy .