The seaman's vade-mecum and defensive war by sea

Containing a maritime dictionary; the proportions of rigging, masts and yards; weight of anchors, sizes and weight of cables and cordage, list of the navy. The words of command in exercising the small arms, bayonet, granadoes, and great-guns, duty of officers, &c. Also, shewing how to prepare a merchant-ship for a close fight,through the bulk-heads, coamings, loop-holes, &c. with the advantages to be taken in chacing, considered, under all positions in respect to wind and tide. Defensive-fighting; shewing how merchant-ships are to act, 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 rivers, and raise redoubta to defend them. An essay on naval book-keeping; or regular method for the purser, clerk, steward, and other officers to keep an account of stores, &c. The method of forming signals for sailing in company, under a commodore in time of war; with many other particulars, relating to the navy, East-India, and merchant service

By William Mountaine, mathematical examiner to the honourable Corporation of trinity-house of Deptlord-Strond, and F.R.S. With additions by John Adams, teacher of the mathematics