Ship knife
Ship or sailor knives are knives for work on board a ship, often equipped with a strong saw blade for cutting ropes . Traditionally the handle was made of cork or wood, today it is often made of plastic with a cavity. The point is to avoid sinking the knife in the water.
A variant are sailor knives , mostly designed as folding knives , for maintaining the rigging of sport and leisure boats. The ship crews of the German Federal Navy are also equipped with it. These knives are then using tools such as shackle and lockable marlinspike (steel mandrel) for opening of nodes or the splicing equipped necessary Tauverbindungen. You are i. d. Usually not floatable and fitted with handles made of hard plastic, wood or aluminum. A ring on the knife housing enables a "safety line" to be attached, which protects against loss.
Footnotes
- ↑ AWN main catalog 2016, p. 339 ( online ( memento of the original from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. )
