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 taking 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 Redoubts to defend them. An Essay on Naval Book - Keeping; Or a 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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mountaine, William, d. 1779.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Naval art and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([10],xii,17,[8],14*-15*,[2],18-242p.,plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Seaman's vade-mecum

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Mount and Page, on Tower-Hill, 1783.

Notes:

Text is continuous despite pagination.

Reproduction of original from Harvard University Libraries.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N21424.

OCLC:

642164120