ship_system

lightning rods ships

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Properties

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0
deployment
hauled up into chains or thrown into sea
description
Conductors designed to protect ships from lightning by directing the electrical current safely into the water, typically made of deployable, slender links.
design
long slender links
purpose
carry off perilous fluid

Relationships

  • protectsPequod
    description
    The ship's lightning rods are intended to protect the Pequod, and other ships, by conducting dangerous electrical current into the water.
    source
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    source_text
    the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it into the water.
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T00:16:33.802Z
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