Photo Diary: An East Indiaman Returns to Salem

Building Friendship: Reports by John Monaghan

December 2000: Setting up the Foremast Shrouds

The swifter [the foremost pair of shrouds] and burton [a tackle used to tighten the shrouds on the upper mast] lie on the fore hatch cover waiting to be lifted into place by the Charlestown Navy Yard Crane.

Photo by Ralph MacKenzie.

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