Senhouse slip, a slip designed to secure the end of a cable. In this slip the tongue passes through the end link of the cable, which is studless, and not across a link as in the other slips. Its normal place in a ship used to be in the cable lockers where the inboard end of the cable is secured, but in modern ships the end of the cable is shackled on to a deck bolt in the locker, no Senhouse slip being used. Smaller Senhouse slips are used in many smaller vessels and yachts to hold the ends of the guardrails to the stanchions. In these cases the tongue passes through an eye in the end of the guardrail.
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