Seamanship

Including names of principal parts of a ship; masts, sails, yards, etc.; bends and hitches; manufacture and tests of steel wire rope; flexible steel wire hawsers; tests and weights of hemp rope, flexible steel wire hawsers, and chain cable; splicing wire rope; knots and splices; fittings of standing rigging; rigging of masts; yards and bowsprit; tests of blocks; fittings of tackles; staying masts and setting up rigging; tanks, ballast, and provisions; managing sails ; boat sailing; instructions on the management of boats in a surf; stowage of anchors and cables; proof tests of anchors and chain cables; hoisting in boats; use of mooring board; to unmoor and proceed to sea; manoeuvres; to tack ship; trimming sails; making and shortening sail; ropes and spars carried away; rule of the road; vessels’ lights and fog signals; glossary of sea terms, etc., etc., etc.

By vice-admiral Sir George S. Nares, K.C.B., R.N. Marine department, board of trade. With illustrations, and coloured sheets of national ensigns for men-of-war and mercantile marine signal flags, compass, pendants, numeral and alphabetical flags - international code, vessels’ lights, fog signals, semaphore, beacon, and squaring yard signals. (Translated also into the French, Italian, and Turkish languages.)