Bow net
A bow net is a safety net on the bow of sailing ships . It prevents seafarers from falling into the sea while working on the bowsprit or jib boom.
Building history
The bow net was a special feature of the German tall ships that were built around 1900. Only later was it taken over on other ships. In the UK Bugnetze were unusual. Even the ships built for German shipping companies did not receive any. One example is the Kurt , later Moshulu, built in 1904 for the Hamburg shipping company GJH Siemers & Co in Glasgow . The ship never received a bow net. Ships bought later were equipped with a bow net, for example the Parma ex Arrow .
Friedrich Ludwig Middendorf , Director of Germanischer Lloyd , issued the directive in 1903:
“Strong foot and hand horses must be attached to the jib boom and bowsprit of every ship, and precautions must be taken to prevent the crew from falling by means of nets or cross ropes (riders, cocks). Ships over 700 register tons with a solid Hornbug fuel are obliged to run nets under the same. "
literature
- Friedrich Ludwig Middendorf : masting and rigging the ships . Berlin 1903
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eric Newby : The Last Grain Race (1956)
- ↑ Middendorf, p. 275