Seamanship

Including names of principal parts of a ship; masts, sails, yards, &c.; knots and splices; fittings of standing rigging; rigging of masts; yards and bowsprits; tanks, ballast, and provisions; rule of road and vessels lights; sea terms; managing sails: boat sailing; stowage of anchors and cables; mechanical powers; manoeuvring; to tack ship; trimming sails; instructions on management of boats in a surf, &c. &c.

By Commander G. S. Nares, R.N. With tree hundred and fifty illustrations and coloured sheets of signal flags, new code, pendants, numeral flags, alphabetical flags, sail signals, beacon signals, signal flags used by British men-of-war for communicating by the commercial code, signal flags for british merchant vessels, &c. Used on board H.M. training ship „Britannia,“ by sanction of tee lords commissioners of the admiralty