Poop deck (English Wikipedia)

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"Poop Deck". HMS Victory. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2013. Located at the stern, this short deck takes its name from the Latin word puppis – which means after deck or rear. Guns were rarely carried on this deck. It was mainly used as a viewpoint and signalling platform. The poop deck also gave protection to the men at the wheel and provided a roof for the captain's cabin. The ropes controlling the yards (spars) and sails of the main and mizzen masts were operated from the poop deck.

"Poop Deck". HMS Victory. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020. Retrieved 27 April 2013. Located at the stern, this short deck takes its name from the Latin word puppis – which means after deck or rear. Guns were rarely carried on this deck. It was mainly used as a viewpoint and signalling platform. The poop deck also gave protection to the men at the wheel and provided a roof for the captain's cabin. The ropes controlling the yards (spars) and sails of the main and mizzen masts were operated from the poop deck.

IMD 1961. Kerchove, René de baron (1961). International Maritime Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Useful Maritime Terms and Phrases, Together with Equivalents in French and German (2nd ed.). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. p. 598. OCLC 9324405.