THE CABLE SHIP ON REPAIRS. 



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ropes run clear through the outboard stoppers. Sometimes 

 round thimbles or metal ejes are fixed to these stoppers so 

 that the ropes run through easily. 



Fig. 169. — Slipping Bight at Bows for Paying out at Stern. 



In repairing steamers, pacing out is generally dene from 

 the bows and we will now consider the slipping of splice when 

 it is intended to pay out cable this way. The end of cable 

 in tank is taken forward over picking- up drum, the seaward 



