DICTIONARY OF

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Pink. Narrow sterned sailing craft with lateen rig. Stern projected aft considerably. Used
for reconnoitring, carrying stores, and similar purposes.
Pink Stern. A high and narrow stern.
Pinnace. Formerly, small, two-masted sailing vessel sometimes with oars. Now rowing,
sailing or mechanically-propelled boat of R.N. Is diagonal built; 36 ft. in length.
Pin Rack. Rack carrying belaying pins.
Pin Rail. Horizontal rail, at ship's side, carrying belaying pins.
Pintle. Vertical pin, on forward edge of rudder, that ships into gudgeon and forms a hinge.
Pinyano. Small, one-masted fishing vessel of China Sea. Fitted with outrigger.
Pioneer. Net-cutting attachment formerly fitted into nose of torpedo to cut through torpedonets.
Pipe. To call seamen, or to direct them, by sounds on a boatswain's call or pipe.
Pipe Down. Order to boatswain's mate to pipe hands 'down from aloft'. Now used, in R.N.,
to inform hands that they will not be required for work; or, at night, that hands are to turn in.
2. Be quiet.
Pipe Stool. Shaped support in which a pipe rests.
Piping the Side. Naval courtesy paid only to specified naval officers, in uniform, boarding
or leaving one of H.M. ships during daylight hours. Consists of two calls on boatswain's pipe
- one on approach to ship of visiting officer, the other as officer enters ship. Similarly, but in
reverse order, as he leaves it.
Piracy. Robbery from a ship. The forcible taking of a ship, her cargo, apparel or furniture
from the possession of the owner and for private gain. Also, the forcible entry into a ship for
the purpose of damaging her.
Piragua. Large canoe of Central America.
Pirates. Robbers of a ship, not necessarily on the high seas. Includes mutinous passengers,
and robbers who attack from the shore.
Pirogue. Form of 'Piragua'.
Pitch. Dark-coloured solid obtained from distillation of tar. Has a low melting point and is
insoluble in water. Used for paying of deck seams and stopping of small leaks.
Pitch of Propeller. Distance vessel would advance with one turn of propeller if there were
no slip. Also applied to angle that propeller blade makes with propeller shaft. It is this pitch
which produces propulsion of ship.
Pitch of Rivets. Spacing between rivets measured from centre to centre of the rivets.
Pitching. Downward falling of a vessel's bows as water support leaves them.
Pitch-pole. To be overthrown in a fore-and-aft direction.