Tudor peasants (UEB Contracted)

By: Rnib Bookshare

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Synopsis: This image is of a large, three-masted wooden ship with its bow (front) at the right of the page, and its stern at the left. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the right way up. The deep hull fills the lower part of the page. Mainly below the water at the left of the page is the rudder. Up from this is the sterncastle which can be seen above the hull at the stern of the ship. It is a wooden structure containing cabins on several floors. Sticking up from the sterncastle is the mizzen mast, which has a lookout basket (crow's nest) towards the top. The triangular mizzen sail is attached to this mast via a wooden beam along its right edge, and to the sterncastle by ropes. To the right of the sterncastle, the large rectangular mainsail - again with a crow's nest above it - is attached to the hull via the thick main mast and some ropes.To the right of the mainsail, at the bow of the ship, a squarish foresail is attached by the fore mast and ropes to the forecastle, which is a similar structure to the sterncastle. There is a third crow's nest towards the top of the fore mast, and a flag with tails flying forward at the very top. Just to the right of the forecastle, a short beam, the bowsprit, leans out almost horizontally.