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The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, with Plates; a Dictionary of Sea Terms; Customs and Usages of the Merchant Service; Laws Relating To the Prctical Duties of Master Ande MarinerEntry/Object ID
BK012888Description
Practical Seamanship: general rules and observations; cutting and fitting standing rigging; fitting and reeving running rigging; rigging masts and yards; sending down, bending and unbending sails; work uponrigging; rope, knots, splics, bends, hitches; blocks and purchses; making and taking in sail; general principals ofworking a ship; tacking, wearing, boxing, gales of wind, lying-to, getting aback, by the lee, accidents, heaving-to by counter bracing, speaking, sounding, heaving thelog, anchoring, getting under way, sea terms, merchant customs and suages: the master, chief mate, second and third mates, carpenter, cook, steward, able seamen, ordinary seamen, boys. Laws: the vessel, master's relation to vessel and cargo, master relations to passengers and officers, master's relations to crew, passengers, mates & subordinates, shipping contract, provisions, desertion, discharge, punishment, revolt, mutiny, wages, remedies.
223 pgs., illus.Collection
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Book, Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882., Practical SeamanshipBook Details
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Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.Date Published
1847Call No.
VK541.D173 1847