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Jack Tar (also Jacktar, Jack-tar or Tar) is a common English term that was originally used to refer to seamen of the Merchant Navy or the Royal Navy, particularly during the British Empire. By World War I the term was used as a nickname for those in the US Navy . [ 1 ]
The use of tar and pitch in punishments appearing in such medieval works as Anglo-Norman sermons, The Purgatory of Saint Patrick by Marie de France and Dante's Inferno have been seen as precursors for the idea of tarring and feathering. The latter also features the element of feathers when a "human thief is painfully transformed into a ...
Jack Tar is a traditional name for British sailors. It depicts, in the centre, the Tory government ministers Lord Hawkesbury and Lord Castlereagh rowing a boat named the Billy Pitt (a reference to the former Prime Minister William Pitt), and the Foreign Secretary George Canning is towing the captured Danish fleet into harbour behind him.
Mixing tar with linseed oil varnish produces tar paint. Tar paint has a translucent brownish hue and can be used to saturate and tone wood and protect it from weather. Tar paint can also be toned with various pigments, producing translucent colors and preserving the wood texture. Tar was once used for public humiliation, known as tarring and ...
A neighborhood in Vaasa called Neekerikylä - so named because the houses were first painted with black tar paint before white paint was available - had its name changed to Aalto-puisto, because most inhabitants found the name problematic. [38]
British Tar may refer to: British Tar or Jack Tar, a nickname for a sailor; British Tar, several ships "A British Tar", a song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1878 operetta, H.M.S. Pinafore; British Tar Products, a company distilling coal tar
The heating (dry distilling) of wood causes tar and pitch to drip away from the wood and leave behind charcoal. Birchbark is used to make birch-tar, a particularly fine tar. The terms tar and pitch are often used interchangeably. However, pitch is considered more solid, while tar is more liquid.
British Tar (1804 ship) was launched in 1793 in Spain under another name and taken in prize. In 1806 she was on a voyage from Labrador to the Mediterranean when a French squadron captured and burnt her. British Tar (1814 ship) was launched at Whitby in 1814. She became a Liverpool-based merchantman, trading across the Atlantic with North ...