g. See heave-to and luff.

BROADSIDE. The whole number of guns carried on one side of a vessel;
starboard or port broadside, weather or lee broadside.

CABLE. The heavy rope which was attached to the anchor, and held the
ship to it. Cables are now chains, but in the period of this book
were always hemp. To veer cable, to let more out, to let the ship
go farther from the anchor. To slip the cable, to let it all go
overboard, releasing the vessel. Cable's length: 120 fathoms.

CHASE, General. A chase by a fleet, in which, in order to more rapid
advance, the places of the vessels in their usual order are not to be
observed.

CLOSE-HAULED. See "Course."

COLUMN. See "Line Ahead."

COME UP. A ship comes up, when her bow comes more nearly to the
direction of the wind. Used generally when the movement proceeds from
some other cause than the movement of the helm. See "Luff."

CONVOY. A body of unarmed or weakly armed vessels, in company with
ships of war.

CONVOY, to. To accompany a number of unarmed vessels, for their
protection.

COURSE. The direction of a vessel's movement, with regard to the
compass or to the wind.

Compass course. The point of the compass towards which the vessel heads.

Wind courses:

Close-hauled. As nearly in the direction from which the wind blows as
is compatible with keeping the sails full; for square-rigged vessels
six points. (See "Bearings by Compass.") For a north wind, the
close-hauled courses are east-northeast and west-northwest.

Free. Not close-hauled.

Large. Very free.

Off the wind. Free.

On (or by) the wind. Close-hauled.

COURSES. The lowest sails on the fore and main masts.

CRUISE, to. To cover a certain, portion of sea by movement back and
forth over it.

CRUISER. A general term for armed ships, but applied more specifically
to those not "of the line," which therefore are more free and wider in
their movements.

CURRENT.

Lee Current. One the movement of which is away from the wind.

Weather Current. One which sets towards the wind.

EBB, ebb-tide. See "Tide."

FAIR, wind. A wind which allows a vessel to head her desired compass
course.

FALL OFF. A vessel falls off, when, without the action of the helm,
her head moves away from the wind. See "Come up."

FILL. } Sails are said to fill, or to be full, when the wind
FULL. } strikes the rear side, tending to move the vessel ahead.

FLOOD, flood tide. Se