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| 2 | 155 | View more quotes about outside">Outside the planks, too, was a coating of painted tar, to protect them from the sea, and the depredations of ship worms. |
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| 2 | 152 | The sail was striped, red and white. |
| 2 | 153 | The ship, like most of the northern ships, was clinker built, being constructed of overlapping planks, or strakes, the frame then fitted within them. |
| 2 | 154 | Between the strakes tarred ropes and tar served as caulking. |
| 2 | 155 | Outside the planks, too, was a coating of painted tar, to protect them from the sea, and the depredations of ship worms. |
| 2 | 156 | The tar was painted red and black, in irregular lines. |
| 2 | 157 | The ship, at night, mast down, with such colorings, moving inland on a river, among the shadows, would be extremely difficult to detect. |
| 2 | 158 | It was a raider's ship. |