A portion of a model depicting a manual capstan in use. The sailors would coordinate the rhythm of their movements by singing a particular type of sea shanty as they walked around the capstan
A capstan on a sailing ship. The upper portion operates the anchor windlass below in the Forecastle
On the main deck below the capstan shown above is the anchor windlass
A capstan is a rotating machine used to control or apply force to another element, usually linear. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1715x1180, 492 KB)Portion of a sailing ship model at the San Francisco Maritime Museum showing the operation of a capstan. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1715x1180, 492 KB)Portion of a sailing ship model at the San Francisco Maritime Museum showing the operation of a capstan. ... Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x1152, 472 KB)Capstan on the sailing ship Balclutha. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1536x1152, 472 KB)Capstan on the sailing ship Balclutha. ... forecastle with figurehead Grand Turk Focsle of the Prince William, a modern square rigged ship, in the North Sea. ... Image File history File links AnchorWindlass. ... Image File history File links AnchorWindlass. ... An anchor windlass within the forecastle on the main deck of the sailing ship Balclutha. ... In physics, a force is an external cause responsible for any change of a physical system. ...
The term was first used for the capstan on a ship, which is used to control ropes that are wound around it. The rope is wound around one or more times, but is not stored on a capstan — that arrangement is usually called a winch. Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. ... á: Rope is also the title of a movie by Alfred Hitchcock Rope is also the name of an open-source firewall programming language A rope is also a data structure used in computer science. ... A winch is a machine that is used to wind up a rope. ...
Ships' capstans were traditionally manually operated — consisting of a shaped wooden drum with handles inserted into the rim, at which men could push or pull. It seems that in Tudor times, when 'kissing the gunner's daughter' was not yet a tradition, the capstan was a favorite place for sailors to be bound over for a whipping, even for 'petty pilferings'. Spanking (or smacking, whacking, etc. ...
A capstan is a rotating machine used to control or apply force to another element, usually linear.
The term was first used for the capstan on a ship, which is used to control ropes that are wound around it.
Capstans are also found in the mechanisms of tape recorders, where they have a similar function - they apply force to the tape causing it to be drawn off the spool, past the heads, and onto the take-up spool at a precise, constant speed.
The rope is wound around one or more times, but is not stored on a capstan — that arrangement is usually called a winch.
Ships' capstans were traditionally manually operated — consisting of a shaped wooden drum with handles inserted into the rim, at which men could push or pull.
It seems that in Tudor times, when 'kissing the gunner's daughter' was not yet a tradition, the capstan was a favorite place for sailors to be bound over for a whipping, even for 'petty pilferings'.
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