Can Hook from Galleon Santa Clara (1564)3D Model
Can Hook from Galleon Santa Clara (1564)
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More model informationA 15cm tall, flat-ended hook is a special type called a “can hook,” designed for lifting barrels in and out of a ship. One definition of the can hook says it is “an instrument used to sling a cask by the end of the staves: it is formed by fixing a broad and flat hook at each end of a short rope; and the tackle by which the cask so slung may be hoisted or lowered, is hooked to the middle of the rope”. In 1703, it was written that those in charge of victualling a ship needed to know “The Doctrine of the Can- Hook, and how much they affect the Heads and Crows of their Cask in their Hoysting ln and Out.” This piece (97-2510) is made of resin cast from the marine concretion that formed around the original, degraded iron.
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