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ONLY the running rigging and a few other details now remain before our gallant "Sovereign" will be completed. To vary the work, it is better to take up the construction of some fittings and thus gain a breathing spell between the standing and running rigging jobs.
Fourteen yards are required, made as specified in the yard chart at the end of the article. The chart also enumerates the number and kinds of blocks and rigging lines required for attaching each of the yards to its respective mast. The yards are all natural wood color and are finished exactly the same as were the masts.
Next, the guns and carriages are made. The sixteen deck gun carriages are made the same as those for the main-deck guns under the spar deck except that a channel, instead of a hole, is cut into the tops of each, in which the gun will rest. Color the carriages dull black as before, and glue and pin in place in alinement with the deck ports. Sixteen deck guns and seventy-four lower-deck guns are then turned in a lathe. In addition, ten bulkhead guns are also turned. These are the same as the deck guns except that the inboard ends are cut like the lower deck guns so that they may be inserted into the holes made for them in the bulkheads.
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