The ropes supplied to the Royal Navy are made from various kinds of vegetable fibre which may differ in strength, weight, flexibility, hardness or resistance to wear, elasticity, resistance to weather, or behaviour when wet.
Iintsontelo ezinikezelwa kuMkhuosi wamanzi zenziwa ngentlobo ntlobo zeentsinga zemifuno enokuthi yahlukane ngamandla, ngobunzima, ngokuthamba, ngokuqina okanye ngokuxhathisa ekuqhaqhekeni, ngokureka, ngokuxhathisa kwimozulu, okanye ekuziphatheni xa zimanzi.