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 bowspirit; fittings of tackles; setting up rigging; tanks, ballast, and provisions; rule of road & vessel's lights; sea terms; managing sails; boat sailing; stowage of anchors and cables; to unmoor and proceed to sea; mechanical powers;manœuvering; to tack a ship; trimming sails; making and shortening sail; ropes and spars carried away; instructions on the management of boats in a surf, &c. &c.

By Captain G. S. Nares, R.N. With four hundred illustrations and coloured sheets of signal flags, new code, pendants, numeral flags, alphabetical flags, semaphore-flashing, 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