-
earliest form, the
capstan consisted of a
timber mounted vertically through a vessel's
structure which was free to rotate. Levers,
known as
bars, were inserted...
- with
seagoing crews in the
early 19th century. (David W. Bone (1931).
Capstan Bars. Edinburgh: The
Porpoise Press. OCLC 896299.) The Times.
September 12...
- had
defended himself against the mate’s
threatening behavior with a
capstan bar.” Conrad’s
fictional first mate Leggatt, who has fled from his ship Sephora...
- gun turret.
Capstan lathe is the
usual name in the UK and Commonwealth,
though the two
terms are also used in contrast: see below,
Capstan versus turret...
-
Capstan shanty Raising the
anchor on a ship
involved winding its rope
around a
capstan, a sort of
giant winch,
turned by
sailors heaving wooden bars while...
- Mageean's
version of the song from his 1978
album Of Ships... and Men. The
Capstan Bar (1978) The
Shanty Men (1978)
Compilation Album Of Ships...And Men (1978)...
- a
succession of four
Dublin pubs, all of them unprofitable. Fallon's
Capstan Bar is the only one
still in existence. In his
third and
final fight on 21...
- businessman, who
owned several pubs in
Belfast (one of
which was The
Capstan Bar on Ann Street) and had at one time been
chairman of the
Northern Vintners'...
-
archaic term for a bar or lever,
generally of wood, used in a windl**** or
capstan, for
heaving anchor, and, in
modified forms, for
various other purposes...
- the wind. Many
ships were
wrecked on the Doom
Bar,
despite the
installation of
mooring rings and
capstans on the
cliffs and
quarrying away part of Stepper...
