Abstract: A lashing device for securing objects on ship's decks. The lashing device comprises a U-shaped frame member having two legs and an attachment part. Between the frame member legs extend a strap winding-on drum and a spring-biased shaft, and a holding pawl member is attached on the shaft portion that projects laterally beyond one of the frame member legs. The pawl member engages with a cogged ratchet wheel on the winding-on drum and prevents the strap from being unwound from the latter.The shaft is movable in a direction coinciding with the rotational direction of the winding-on drum. Owing to this arrangement the holding pawl member is pressed out of its engaged holding position upon actuation of said shaft, preferably effected by impact thereon by means of a ratchet wrench, and when the holding pawl is thus in its disengaged position the strap may be unwound from the drum through the action of the tension in said strap.