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Show Colored Rope. Every rope used in the British naval service, from heaving line to hawser, wherever used on board ship or In dockyard, has woven Into one of Its strands, for purposes of Identification, a colored thread. A different color Js used according to the port of manufacture; manu-facture; red, blue, green and yellow being adopted for different ports. The presumption is that any rope with the colored thread found outside of such uses Is In Improper hands. This custom has prevailed In the British Brit-ish navy since long before the days of Nelson. A similar method of Identification Identifi-cation Is employed to some extent commercially. Some' railways mark their rope In this way, and It Is sometimes some-times employed in Identifying ropes which, used for the transmission of : power In operating machinery and in lighters, would be liable to be stolen. |