- In
naval architecture, a
taffrail is the
handrail around the open deck area
toward the
stern of a ship or boat. The rear deck of a ship is
often called...
- or
taffrail logs,
operating on
physical principles in a
manner similar to a car's
odometer by
towing a vane or
rotor from the
stern (or
taffrail) by...
- up over the sternpost,
extending upwards from the
counter rail to the
taffrail. The
stern lies
opposite the bow, the
foremost part of a ship. Originally...
- the bridge,
usually located in a superstructure.
Common names for
decks Taffrail, the
handrail around the **** deck
Quarter gallery, a
projecting area at...
-
Porthole Quarter gallery Quarterdeck Rib
Rudder Ship's
wheel Skeg Stem
Starboard Stern or ****
Sternpost Strake Taffrail Tiller Top
Transom Whipstaff Winch...
- motion. A
taffrail is the
handrail around the open
afterdeck or **** deck. On
wooden sailing ships like man-of-war or East
Indiaman the
taffrail is usually...
- the cat-harpins to the water's edge, and from the jib-boom-end to the
taffrail." Lever, D. (1998). The
Young Sea Officer's
Sheet Anchor,
Dover Maritime...
- The
taffrail log
carried a
serial number (3295 M / -) and the ship's agent,
George Parkes was
asked if that
serial number matched the
taffrail log carried...
- Movements. Don Kindell, ConvoyWeb.
Retrieved 15
August 2014.
Taffrail 1973, p. 92.
Taffrail 1973, p. 95. Hastings, Max (2021).
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet...
- ("land"). A
loanword may have one part
misanalysed to a
false cognate: e.g. a
taffrail is a type of rail, but the word
comes from
Dutch tafereel ("carved panel")...
