Extract from the Mercantile Marine Magazine,

"This book is intended as a Guide to the Officers of all grades of the Merchant Service, in the Examinations they are required to undergo, before the Local Marine Board. It does not profess to include Seamanship, which is a subject to which seamen generally devote more attention than to Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, forgetful that the latter branch of their profession is as essential as the former, if they desire to advance in life. So far as we have looked through the book, it seems judiciously arrangel, and the different subjects carefully drawn up, and to the purpose; in fact, without any pretensions, it is the best book of the kind that has yet been published. A good method has been adopted in regard to the answers, (given at the end of the work,) whereby the student at sea can at once fix on that part of the solution, in which he may have committed an error, by which means he will be encouraged to progress, and to improve himself."

NOTICE

OF

EXAMINATIONS OF MASTERS AND MATES

OF

Foreign-going Ships and of Home Trade Passenger Ships, Established in pursuance of the Mercantile Shipping Act, 1854;

AND OF

VOLUNTARY EXAMINATIONS

IN STEAM.

1. UNDER the provisions of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1854, (17 and 18 Vict. c. 104, ss. 136-161,) no Foreign-going Ship* or Home Trade Passenger Ship* can obtain a clearance or transire, or legally proceed to sea, from any port in the United Kingdom, unless the master thereof, and in the case of a Foreigngoing Ship, the first and second mates or only mate, (as the case may be,) and in the case of a Home Trade Passenger Ship, the first or only mate, (as the case may be,) have obtained and possess valid Certificates, either of Competency or Service, appropriate to their several stations in such ship, or of a higher grade; and no such ship, if of one hundred tons burden and upwards, can legally proceed to sea unless at least one officer, besides the master, has obtained and possesses a valid Certificate, appropriate to the grade of only mate therein, or to a higher grade and every person who, having been engaged to serve as

* By a Foreign-going Ship is meant one which is bound to some place out of the United Kingdom, beyond the limits included between the rivers Elbe and Brest; and by a Home Trade Passenger Ship is meant any Home Trade Ship employed in carrying passengers; and it is to be observed that Foreign Steam Ships when employed in carrying passengers between places in the United Kingdom, are subject to all the provisions of the Act, as regards Certificates of masters and mates, to which British Steam Ships are subject. (s. 291.)

A

HAND-BOOK

TO THE

FOR

THE OFFICERS

OF THE

BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE:

INCLUDING

The New Regulations for Masters and Mates in the Coasting Trade.

A DIAGRAM ILLUSTRATING CURRENT SAILING, AND DIRECTIONS

FOR WORKING THE TIDES;

WITH

FULL AND COMPLETE

ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS IN STEAM.

ཛམ་བག་མ་ཝཏུས-

TWENTIETH EDITION.

Considerably Enlarged and Improved; with several Diagrams.

Entered at Stationers' Hall.

London:

PUBLISHED BY MRS. JANET TAYLOR,

AT HER NAUTICAL ACADEMY AND NAVIGATION WAREHOUSE,
104, MINORIES.

1860.

Price 3-

231. f. 15.

POPLETT & SONS, PRINTERS, 43, BEECH STREET, CITY, E. C.