ROPES AND LINERS
It takes hundreds of tons of manil.a hawsers to moor the Majestic, the •world's biggest ship, to a landing-stage. Medium-sized ships of, say, 25,000 tons carry between four and five ..thousand fathoms of cordage on each voyage. These ropes, mostly 3sin, are in coils of 200 fathoms each, and weigh 5001b each. Such a liner carries in her regular equipment sixteen Sin hawsers, each 120 fathoms long. Attached to them are much smaller ropes known as "heaving lines," each sixty fathoms long. The medium-sized liner carries fifty or sixty lifeboats, as well as rafts, with two "falls" of ninety fathoms each attached. These ropes when lowering the boats have a working strain of 40001b, and a breaking strain of 15,0001b. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 8
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123ROPES AND LINERS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 8
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