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badges depicting the coat of arms of
their namesake. On
smaller vessels, a
billethead might be substituted. This was a smaller,
nonfigural carving, most often...
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figurehead that was
smaller and did not
depict any
creatures was
called a
billethead.
Although not a type of wood-carving,
scrimshaws were
carvings done by...
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extremity of the arm of an anchor; the
point of or
beyond the fluke.
billethead 1. On
smaller vessels, a smaller, non-figural carving, most
often a curl...
- #250 Her
figurehead is displa**** in the
Connecticut State Capitol Her
billethead,
trailboards and
other items are on
display at the Mariners'
Museum in...
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single mast. With a hull that was made from wood, she had one deck and a
billethead. She was 216 feet 10 inches (66 m) long, had a beam of 26 feet 6 inches...
- bow of
certain sailing vessels,
where they run from the
figurehead or
billethead back to or
towards the hawsepipe. They are in the main decorative, though...
- 97-foot-long
steam propeller ship with "one deck,
three masts,
square stern,
billethead." In
January 1850,
there was a
collision between the
Colonel Stanton (while...
