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“Get out of here, and stay away from this boy. If I see you in here again, I’ll give you a taste of a belaying pin!’

Spanker league belaying pin snow rope’s end barque spyglass.

Among the well-preserved and often poignant items recovered from the Erebus are the ship’s bell, part of its wheel, several belaying pins, china plates, a cannon and a ceramic pot labelled “anchovy paste”.

Rope is looped around metal dowels called belaying pins that sit in a horizontal steel bar called a pin rail.

I staggered up as bidden, and in a moment he had secured me with a rope to a belaying pin amidships, beneath the bridge.