The seaman's vade-mecum

Containing, the proportions of rigging, masts and yards, weight of anchors, sizes and weight of cables and cordage, list of the navy. The exercise of the small-arms, bayonet, granadoes and great-guns, duty of officers, &c. Also, shewing how to prepare a merchant-ship for a close fight, by disposing their bulk-heads, leaves, coamings, look-holes, &c. Chasing; the advantages to be taken by the chace considered, under all positions in respect to wind and tide. Defensive-fighting; shewing how merchant-ships are to act, whether single or in fleets, when canonaded or boarded by the enemy. Naval fortification; the advantages of mooring considered, in respect to wind and tide; and how to lay booms in streight or crooked rivers, &c. An essay on naval book-keeping; as well in respect to the purser, as to the captain's clerk and steward. The method of forming signals for the regulation of merchant-ships failing in company, under the direction of a commodore in time of war; with many other particulars, relating to the navy and merchant service

By William Mountaine, teacher of the mathematics, and F.R.S.