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Station Posten |
Position an Bord, die mit bestimmten Aufgaben verbunden ist und demzufolge mit einem Besatzungsmitglied besetzt wird, der die betreffenden Tätigkeiten übernimmt. | |||
station post |
a position aboard the ship that implies certain tasks that are assigned to a member of the crew; | |||
station poste |
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The second day out, the wind drew ahead, and we had
to beat up the coast; so that, in tacking ship, I could see the regulations
of the vessel. Instead of going wherever was most convenient, and running
from place to place, wherever work was to be done, each man had his station.
A regular tacking and wearing bill was made out. The chief mate commanded
on the forecastle, and had charge of the head sails and the forward part
of the ship. Two of the best men in the ship - the sailmaker from our
watch, and John, the Frenchman, from the other, worked the forecastle.
The third mate commanded in the waist, and, with the carpenter and one
man, worked the main tack and bowline; the cook, ex-officio, the fore
sheet, and the steward the main. The second mate had charge of the after
yards, and let go the lee fore and main braces. I was stationed at the
weather cross-jack braces; three other light hands at the lee; one boy
at the spanker-sheet and guy; a man and a boy at the main topsail, top-gallant,
and royal braces; and all the rest of the crew - men and boys - tallied
on to the main brace. Every one here knew his station, must be there when
all hands were called to put the ship about, and was answerable for every
rope committed to him. Each man's rope must be let go and hauled in at
the order, properly made fast, and neatly coiled away when the ship was
about. As soon as all hands are at their stations, the captain, who stands
on the weather side of the quarterdeck, makes a sign to the man at the
wheel to put it down, and calls out "Helm's a lee!" - "Helm's
a lee!" answers the mate on the forecastle, and the head sheets are
let go. "Raise tacks and sheets!" says the captain; " tacks
and sheets!" is passed forward, and the fore tack and main sheet
are let go. The next thing is to haul taught for a swing. The weather
cross-jack braces and the lee main braces are each belayed together upon
two pins, and ready to be let go, and the opposite braces hauled taught.
"Main topsail haul!" shouts the captain; the braces are let
go; and if he has taken his time well, the yards swing round like a top;
but if he is too late, or too soon, it is like drawing teeth. The after
yards are then braced up and belayed, the main sheet hauled aft, the spanker
eased over to leeward, and the men from the braces stand by the head yards.
"Let go and haul!" says the captain; the second mate lets go
the weather fore braces, and the men haul in to leeward. The mate, on
the forecastle, looks out for the head yards. "Well, the fore topsail
yard!" - "Top-gallant yard's well!" - "Royal yard
too much! Haul in to windward! So! well that!" - "Well all!"
Then the starboard watch board the main tack, and the larboard watch lay
forward and board the fore tack and haul down the jib sheet, clapping
a tackle upon it if it blows very fresh. The after yards are then trimmed,
the captain generally looking out for them himself. "Well the cross-jack
yard!" - "Small pull the main top-gallant yard!" - "Well
that!" - "Well the mizen topsail yard!" - "Crossjack
yards all well!" - "Well ajl aft!" - "Haul taught
to windward!" Everything being now trimmed and in order, each man
coils up the rigging at his own station, and the order is given - "Go
below the watch!" R.H. Dana, Two Years Before the Mast, p.230ff. |
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