venter slings, winding pendants, water whip stays and pendants.

Type B. When strength and flexibility are both required. To be made of plain laid, hard, galvanized steel wire, as in type A, except that the core wires are omitted and a jute hemp or cotton heart tarred or greased substituted. The following articles are made from this type: trysail ladders, swinging boom and stern ladders and pendants, grab ropes, swinging boom topping lifts, yard lifts, topsail runners, parrels and tyes, vang pendants, jib and staysail pendants, sea anchor bales, ridge ropes, foot ropes for awnings.

Type C. When great flexibility is required. To be made without core wires as in type B, but with a greater number of wrap wires. The following articles are made from this type: hogging lines for collision mats, wheel ropes, boats rigging, etc.

Type D. Annealed wire to be used for special purposes, such as scow lines, seizings, etc. To be laid plain or otherwise.

Directions for fitting wire rigging. All standing rigging, after being put on a stretch, is to be covered with a good coat of red lead, mixed with boiled linseed oil then wormed, parcelled with dry parcelling, and again red leaded and served over all and throughout. Rigging below 2 inches to be served with marline, from 2 inches to 3 inches to be served with house-line, larger sizes to be served with roundline. All nips and around thimbles to be doubly served. Fore and aft stays to be leathered in collars and nips.

In splicing in thimbles, etc., there must be a seizing between the thimble and first tuck. Splices must be tucked whole twice, then half, then quarter.

All spans and guys to be served throughout and fitted with shackles in one end and an oblong or wire thimble in the other. Lower lifts and boom topping lifts to be served throughout. Boom pendants and ladders, stern pendants and ladders to be served throughout, leathered around thimbles, the sides of the ladders to be covered with 8-ounce cotton duck between the leather, the duck to come under the ends of the leather, the end to be secured by a seizing of inch wire. Boom pendants to be fitted the same as ladders.

Trysail ladders to be served throughout and set up with brass turnbuckles; boom, stern and trysail ladders are to have galvanized iron rungs 13 inches long and inch diameter.

Deck stoppers to be double served throughout; fitted with an iron toggle at one end and a hook larger than the cable at the other end. The toggle to be leathered. The toggle end to be leathered over the serving one foot and provided with a manila lanyard 3 fathoms long. Bitt stoppers to be fitted at the forward end the same as deck stoppers. Ridge

ropes and foot ropes for awnings to be served throughout and set up with turnbuckles.

Grab ropes to be served throughout and covered with 8ounce cotton ravens, the ends to be fitted the same as boom pendants and ladders.

All parcelling used on wire rope must be of cotton sheeting of the best quality, unbleached, closely woven, and free from sizing of any kind.

To replace hemp or manila by steel wire rope, take wire rope whose circumference is three-eighths of that of the hemp or manila.