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When did riggers use iron stropped blocks? I am modeling the Webb built packet "OCEAN MONARCH" of 1856, she was square rigged to royals with Howe's split topsails. Would the riggers have employed iron stropped blocks?  

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Jamieson notes ships' blocks as being 'stropped with either rope or iron' in his "A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Knowledge" of 1829.

 

John

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