| Summary: | feed Captain James Fairweather of the AURORA was asked to inspect the damage. He took his water glass, and by its means saw that a bit of the fore-foot had gone, but told the commander not to worry, as there was plenty of wood behind it, and he advised him to give her a "feed". . [HE] told them to have some hemp rope-yarn chopped up and put into a tub. The tub was then fixed on a pole with a slip cover over it and sunk until it was over the damaged part. When the cover was pulled off, the suction drew the rope-yarn into the wound and stopped the leak to a very great extent. It is probable that this was one of the last times that this trick/was tried, but it used to be common enoguh in the old days of wodd sailing ships, when working caused them to open their seams where, possibly, the oakum had perished. [1884] PRINTED ITEM G.M. Story JAN 1971 JH JAN 1971 Used I Used I Withdrawn withdrawn but no stamp; head word and word form used I but not in same sense
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