Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Rigging Monkey refers to a crewmember of a sailing vessel whose primary responsibility is to climb the mast, usually with the assistance of a boatswain's chair, to work on the rigging of the ship.The rigging monkey would be sent aloft to repair damaged sails, straighten out lines that had become "fouled", or tangled, or to assist in the raising or lowering of sails.In the days of tall-ship sailing, the nautical term "monkey" was used to refer to anything of small size on the ship."@en }
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- Rigging_monkey comment "Rigging Monkey refers to a crewmember of a sailing vessel whose primary responsibility is to climb the mast, usually with the assistance of a boatswain's chair, to work on the rigging of the ship.The rigging monkey would be sent aloft to repair damaged sails, straighten out lines that had become "fouled", or tangled, or to assist in the raising or lowering of sails.In the days of tall-ship sailing, the nautical term "monkey" was used to refer to anything of small size on the ship.".