Terminology EN/NL
English and Dutch terms side by side, with a short explanation. Useful when reading this log next to Anatomy of the Ship or a Dutch forum.
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A
The anchor; on the model for now only suggested by the cable through the hawse holes. The kit supplies four identical anchors, the ship carried two bowers, a sheet anchor and a stream anchor.
The ring at the top of the shank to which the cable is bent, wrapped with rope (puddening).
The wooden crosspiece at the top of the shank, in two halves with iron hoops.
B
Support from a topmast or topgallant mast aft to the channel: standing backstay and shifting backstay (with a tackle).
Balsa block fitted between bulkheads at bow and stern to support the planking.
One of the two wooden cheeks on top of the bowsprit through which the fore topmast stays lead.
Wax for treating thread against fuzz and kinks; it discolours the rope, and museums recommend paraffin wax because beeswax is acidic (Hoosterw on the Dutch forum). Do not wax the part that still needs CA glue.
The drawing giving the belaying point of each line: sheets 5 and 6 of the kit, F5/10 to F5/12 in the book.
Chemical agent for blackening brass or bronze; does not work on white metal.
Wooden pulley block, single or double. Not the same as a fiddle block (one block, two sheaves), a sister block (two blocks seized together) or a shoe block (two sheaves at right angles); the kit mixes them up.
Spar swung outboard to moor a boat alongside; spare spars are stowed over the waist.
Stay from the bowsprit end down to the stem, against the upward pull of the stays.
Rounded pieces of wood on the trestletrees over which the eyes of the shrouds pass.
Hollow brass tubing, here for carronade trucks and hammock cranes.
Heavy rope from the ring at the breech of the gun to the ship's side, taking the recoil.
In the kit the laser-cut transverse bulkheads on the keel former; frames on the real ship.
Line from the foot of the sail up to the yard to gather the sail; buntline and leech line.
C
The block with two holes joining the lower masthead to the topmast (and the topmast to the topgallant, and the bowsprit to the jib boom).
Pin with a keep chain that secures the cap square over the trunnions.
Vertical winch for heaving in the anchor cable; Diana had a double capstan.
South American boxwood substitute, ideal for milling and turning.
The lines between the port and starboard futtock staves that draw the shrouds inward.
The black seam between deck planks, simulated on the model with pencil or thread.
The two pieces fitted either side of the lower mast below the hounds, with the bibs on which the top rests.
Figure-of-eight turns round a belaying pin or cleat, finished with a half hitch.
Two opposed half hitches round a spar or shroud; the knot for ratlines and for blocks on spars.
Laying the fall of a belayed line in a tidy coil; on the model as a hank over the pin or a coil on deck.
The strop with an eye or heart to which the lower end of a stay is set up.
Table with two perpendicular adjustable axes for precision milling.
The lower yard of the mizzen mast, carrying no sail; pietsan: kruisra.
Small single-masted vessel; Eduard's first model was the cutter HMS Mermaid. Also the small, beamy ship's boat, of which Diana carried two.
Computer-controlled cutter (Brother ScanNCut), fine for paper but not for wood.
D
The short spar hanging down below the bowsprit cap to spread the martingale stay.
The length where lower mast and topmast (or topmast and topgallant) overlap, between top and cap; painted black.
Strake that does not run the full length but tapers to a point at the bow, so two strakes merge into one. Not the same as a stealer.
E
Screw under the breech used to elevate the carronade.
A spliced loop in the end of a rope; the real ship's way of making an eye, at 1:64 only feasible in thick rope (here the 1.6 mm messenger).
Bolt with an eye, in the deck, top or yard, to which blocks and tackles are hooked.
F
Bevelling the bulkheads so the planking lies flat against them.
The bar through the heel of the topmast that rests on the trestletrees and carries the topmast.
One block with a single shell and two sheaves one above the other; the kit supplies fiddle blocks where it means sister blocks.
Double hull planking: a rough base layer and a finish layer of thin strips.
Planking pattern in which the butts repeat every fourth plank.
Fast warship with a single continuous gun deck; Diana was a 38-gun frigate.
The piece fitted to the front of the lower mast, in the kit the 2 x 3 mm strip.
Rope from the deadeye on the rim of the top down to the futtock stave in the lower shrouds.
The futtock shrouds together, with their three short rows of ratlines.
Bar seized across the lower shrouds about 50 mm below the top, to which the futtock shrouds and catharpins are fixed.
G
Line along which copper plates are cut diagonally to make the rows meet.
The ordnance; on Diana 18-pounders on the gun deck and 9-pounders on the upper deck.
The deck carrying the 18-pounders, largely covered by the upper deck on the model.
Tackle either side of the carriage used to run the gun out; called zijtakel in the 2023 posts.
Flintlock firing mechanism on the gun, in Royal Navy use from the 1780s.
H
The line by which a yard or gaff is hoisted: topsail, topgallant, throat and peak halliard.
Netting between the hammock cranes in which the hammocks were stowed.
Heart-shaped block without a sheave by which stays and collars are set up with a lanyard.
The thickening below the masthead on which the trestletrees rest; not drawn by the kit.
I
J
K
Clamp for the keel, also usable as a third hand: block in one clamp, rope in the other.
In the kit the central plywood profile carrying the bulkheads; not the real ship's false keel.
Heavy double cleat on the bulwark; on Diana at the carronade ports and in the waist, for the main brace, main sheet, fore sheet, spritsail sheet and the topsail halliards (sheets 5 and 6).
L
Rope laid left-handed from three hawsers, cable-laid; historically correct for anchor cable, messenger, breeching, main stay and fore stay.
The shrouds of the lower mast: eight a side on the foremast, nine on the main mast, five on the mizzen.
M
The heaviest stay, from the main masthead to the foot of the foremast.
Vertical spar, in three parts: lower mast, topmast and topgallant mast, with a top or crosstrees and a cap at each junction. On the model so far only the mast coats.
Tarred canvas cover over the wedges where the mast passes through the deck.
Narrow iron hoop round the lower mast, in the kit made of black card.
Wooden wedges around the mast at deck level, covered with tarred canvas.
The squared upper end of a lower mast or topmast that takes the trestletrees, the cap and the eyes of the shrouds.
Endless rope around the capstan to which the anchor cable was lashed for heaving in.
Vertical rollers on the gun deck guiding the messenger.
The stay of the mizzen mast, on Diana set up with deadeyes to the main mast.
The swelling on a stay behind which the eye of the stay locks itself round the masthead.
N
O
P
The strop with trucks or ribs by which topsail and topgallant yards swing round the mast.
Short heavy rope with an eye, the first pair round the masthead, to which a tackle could be hooked; the kit leaves the tackle out.
Wooden rail with holes for belaying pins, on the bulwark and round the masts.
The second, slightly thinner stay beside the main stay and the fore stay.
Q
R
Thin line across the shrouds, with a clove hitch round each shroud, on Diana every 13 inches (some 5 to 6 mm at 1:64).
Card with lines every 6 mm behind the shrouds, to keep the rows straight.
Two half knots on top of each other; to finish a seizing and for the first loop of a strop, not for ratlines.
Three-strand rope laid right-handed, hawser-laid; all ordinary rope and the running rigging.
Rope neatly coiled on the deck, or hanging as a coil at the belaying point.
A run of copper plates following the sheer of a plank strake.
Stay from the pole head of the topgallant mast, the highest line on each mast.
All lines that move and are belayed: halliards, lifts, braces, sheets, clew lines, buntlines; natural.
S
A series of tight turns of fine thread round two parts of rope: to form an eye, to close a block in its strop or to secure a line to itself. In this log sometimes called a woeling (see the how-to on the gun tackle block).
Wrapping a rope tightly with fine twine against chafe, the outer of the three layers worming, parcelling, serving; on the stays and the foremost shroud.
The turning wheel in a block or in a sheave hole in a mast, yard or the hull.
Slot with a sheave in a spar or the hull; the kit draws bare holes in the hull.
Heavy warship with two or three gun decks, such as HMS Victory.
Block with two sheaves at right angles, at the topmast head for the lifts; pietsan: sikkelblok.
One rope of the shrouds, in pairs as an eye round the masthead and with a deadeye at the channel.
Small cleat seized to a shroud above the deadeye for belaying a line.
Two blocks of different size seized together, at the yardarms: the large one below for the sheet, the small one above for the lift.
All lines that support the masts and do not move: shrouds, stays, backstays; black.
Short wedge-shaped plank filling the gap where strakes open up towards the stern.
Copper plate cut to shape where two rows meet at stem or stern.
Vertical timber aft of the last bulkhead supporting the counter and transom.
The vertical timber at the after end of the keel on which the rudder hangs.
Smaller anchor for rivers and tideways; the kit supplies four identical anchors.
Block with a strop round it, ready to hang from an eyebolt, yard or stay.
The thin spar that slides outboard through irons on the yard.
T
Line hauling the weather clew of a sail forward; on Diana the fore tack leads over the bumkin.
Colouring natural thread brown (tea, oak bark, walnut stain) so it does not look too white.
Narrowing planks towards the ends so all strakes fit; also thinning masts, topmasts and yards towards the ends as on sheet 4.
Base with two crocodile clips; indispensable for seizings and stropping blocks.
Fine thread laid between deck planks to simulate caulking.
Planking pattern in which the butts repeat every third plank.
The rope from the topsail yard through the topmast head, from which the halliard hangs.
Head of a timber projecting above the bulwark or planksheer, for belaying heavy running rigging; on Diana among others on the forecastle for the jib boom guys.
Wooden pin through an eye, allowing the spritsail sheet to be cast off quickly.
The platform on the lower mast from which the topmast shrouds are set up; main top, fore top, mizzen top.
The third mast section, above the topmast crosstrees; with a pole head for the royal stay.
The yard of the topgallant sail on the topgallant mast: fore, main and mizzen topgallant yard.
The second mast section, standing beside the lower mast through the top and the cap.
The open crosstrees at the topmast head, without a platform.
The shrouds of the topmast, from the topmast head to the deadeyes on the rim of the top.
Stay leading forward from a topmast head: fore, main and mizzen topmast stay.
The yard of the topsail on the topmast: fore, main and mizzen topsail yard.
Tackle behind the carriage used to hold the gun inboard for loading.
The fore-and-aft and athwartships timbers on the hounds that carry the top or the topmast crosstrees.
Wooden bead with a hole, among others on the backstays and at the gaff.
The rope holding the lower yard against the mast, with a truss tackle to the deck; not on the kit drawings.
U
V
W
Fine twine wound tightly round a rope end to stop it fraying; in Dutch also windsel.
Broad rope binding of seven turns round the lower mast, between iron hoops.
Laying thin line in the grooves between the strands, the first of the three layers; the kit calls the wrapping on the stays worming, but on the model you only make the outer layer.
Y
Yellow ochre, base coat for gold and historic colour of mouldings.