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[tghsmith]

several of my 1880 to 1900 ships have Archers patented nippers mounted on the deck..basically a cable hawser brake sometime called a compressor.. I have one bad advertising print photo, but would like to get some better info.. seeing these units were UK built I was hoping some here might have something.. thank todd..

[tghsmith]

  a pair of nippers are just forward of the anchor crane..

[raflaunches]

Hi tghsmith


I've been trying to find the compressor/nippers in question and this is the best drawing I could find in the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship Volume 1:1915 edition. If I had an earlier edition which isn't easy to get perhaps the exact nipper would be in there with drawings and an explanation on how to use it.

[tghsmith]

kind of amazing I found an ad stating that 2000 of their units were in use!! bullivant and company was another manufacturer.

[raflaunches]

Now I've just seen something about Bullivant nippers whilst looking for compressors. Give me an hour and I'll find that book again.

[raflaunches]

That was quick!!! In the same book!

[tghsmith]

best images so far!!! thanks...

[John R Haynes]

In the book  A Ship Modelshipmakers Manual there is a picture of a Compressor cable stopper which is basically two upright pieces of metal and a pivot arm that goes over the top to lock the cable. Another version is when the pivot arm is tightened on the cable by a handle at the end of a threaded rod.
 I  built at 1/96, a model of Atlantis for a client and these items  are in my on=line shop as JRH 322 and sold as pairs

[tghsmith]

John, not quite the type needed, which is OK, because I would be really bummed if I had missed them as I had just placed an order for 3 frets of stanchions.. the Minneapolis is going to swallow up lots of stanchions!!!

[dodes]

I googled for anchor cable compressors and came up with these. The one with the cable going around the single bit with the bar through, I have seen pictures of on old capital class vessels and wondered how it was used, now I can see in the picture, suspect it was used for hanging of anchors etc.