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Abaft means towards the rear of a ship.
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A dandy was a sloop or cutter with a jigger-mast abaft, on which a mizzen lug-sail was set.
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On old sailing ships, a horseshoe-rack was a sweep curving from the bitt-heads abaft the mainmast carrying a set of nine-pin swivel-blocks, as the fair-loaders of the light running-gear, halliards, &c.
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I 5 was a Japanese Ocean-going experimental submarine of 1955 tons displacement launched in 1931. I 5 was powered by two sets of diesel engines providing a top speed of 17 knots surfaced and 9 knots submerged. She was armed with one 5.5 inch gun; two anti-aircraft machine-guns and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. A seaplane with folding wings was carried housed in two tubular sections on either side of the superstructure abaft of the conning tower instead of a second gun.
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A snow is a vessel equipped with two masts resembling the main and fore masts of a ship, and a third small mast, just abaft the main mast, carrying a sail similar to a ship's mizzen.
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