| Summary: | dead a 345. According to Mr. Murphy (Mr. Peter Murphy, 70, of Crawley's Island) lanyards were the more traditional devices on vessals [sic] for tightening the shrouds. They were later replaced by screwbuckles. The lanyard consisted of two deadeyes (flat, circular pieces of a type of hardwood known as ignivity) with three holes each, connected together by a length of "spun yarn" (rope). On the top the deadeye was attached to the shrough and onthe bottom it was fastened to a flatiron. The flatiron was a piece of metal attached to the sides of the craft and the shroud was what we might call a guy wire, running from near the top of the sp ar to the lanyard (see diagram - over) JH FEB 1973 Used I and Sup Not used Withdrawn [see also 'lanyards', 'ignivity', etc.]
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