Salusbury, Thomas, Mathematical collections and translations (Tome I), 1667

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              The way to recover a Foundered Ship with many Barks or Wherryes.
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              which means in every two Ships to a Diviſion (which in all make
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              four Ships) there muſt be ſeven Orders of Beams, and in three Ships
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              to a Squadron, there muſt be ten Orders of Beams, and in four
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              Ships to a Squadron thirteen; and thus proceeding forwards to a
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              greater number of Ships in a Squadron. </s>
              <s>And having underſtood the
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              way of coupling many Barks or Wherryes in Squadrons; as alſo the
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              manner how to joyn or faſten them to each other, and with how
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              many Orders of Beams; you are to proceed in the reſt, as in the
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              precedent Explanations hath been demonſtrated in ſhowle bottoms,
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              but the directions how to manage this affair in deep places, ſhall be
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              declared in the ſeventh Explanation.</s>
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              EXPLANATION
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              V.</s>
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              <s>To remove this inconvenience of taking Ships or other Veſſels;
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              and of ſtanding to lighten them of their Guns & lading, and of
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              ſtopping their Loop-holes; you may inſuch a misfortune cauſe
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              to be made two great Veſſels, almoſt in form of ^{*} Cheſts without
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              vers, the length of each to be equal to the Hull of a middle rate Ship,
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              and the breadth equall to that of the ſame Ship at the Main-maſt,
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              and the height alſo the ſame with that of the Ship in the Bow, ſo
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              that each of theſe Plat forms or Cheſts, ſhall hold much more than
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              a common Ship, and thus both will contain more than the double
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              burden of ſuch a Ship. </s>
              <s>And for the making of theſe Veſſels, you
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              muſt firſt make the Models in Carvel-manner of thick and ſtrong
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              Timber, with their Eutertaces, Tranſomes and Knees, to hold their
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              ſides and ends together: and this done, ſpike down to them certain </s>
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