12 NICHOLLS'S SEAMANSHIP AND NAUTICAL KNOWLEDGE

is by taking a round turn and two half hitches, and stopping the end
back for further security (Fig. 15).

Fig. 16.

Fig. 17.
Clove Hitch.

Fig. 18.

A Clove Hitch is really a jamming form of two half hitches, and id
principally used when a small rope has to be secured to a larger one and
the end still kept free to pass along for further purposes, as in securing
ratlines to the shrouds. Its formation is shown in three successive
stages (Figures 16, 17, 18).

A Rolling Hitch is commenced and finished like a clove hitch, but
as will be seen from the three diagrams (Figs, 19, 20,21), illustrating its
construction, there is an intermediate round turn between the first

Fig. 19. *i& 20

in* Hitch.