Stanchion (nautical)
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In nautical terms, the stanchion is the thick and high iron that with others equal or similar is placed vertically on the gunwale, propaos and stern edges of the boxes (tops?).
They are used to support and hold the battens and to pass a rope through the eye that some of them have at the end instead of a fork, where the net or canvas that forms or covers the parapets is secured. They are also made of the same metal or of bronze in the doorways and in the mouths of the ladders, in order to fix the guardrails to them and also, although in a different form in the barges and boats that use a carriage, to establish their framework
Also called stanchion is the vertical pillar or strut that is placed in the fences and other places to extend and support the canopies.
Literature
[edit]- es:Candelero (náutica), Navarrete, Martín Fernández de (1831). Diccionario marítimo español. Madrid: Imprenta Real, pagina 136.