Boats, Life, 338.

Man-of-war, 217.
Torpedo, 211.
Boatswain's call, 165.
mate, Duties of, 165.
Bore, Rifling the, 228.
Bow and beam bearings, 113.
Bowline, 300.

Boy artificers, British navy,
188.

coopers, British navy, 187.
shipwrights, British navy,
188.

telegraphists, British navy,
189.

writers, British navy, 188.
Branch hydrographic offices,
375.
Breasthooks, 265.

Breech blocks, 230.

-loading gun, 219.

mechanism of guns, 230.
plug, Driggs-Schroeder,

British naval officers, Duties
of, 195.

naval uniform, 186.
navy, Accountant general
of, 179.

navy, Active list, 185.
navy, Administration of,
177.

navy, Boy artificers, 188.
navy, Boy coopers, 187.
navy, Boy shipwrights,
188.

navy, Boy telegraphists,
189.

navy, Boy writers, 188.
navy, Constructive branch,
178.

navy, Controller of, 178.
navy, Department of sec-.
retary, 178.

navy, Director-of-works
department, 180.

navy, Divisions and drills,
198.

navy, Dockyard branch,
179.

navy, Duties of petty of-
ficers, 197.

navy, Engineer command-
ers, 195.

navy, Engineering branch,
179.

navy, Fleet paymasters,
196.

navy, Fleet surgeons, 196.
navy, Hydrographic de-
partment, 178.

navy, Intelligence depart-
ment, 178.

navy, Marine officers, 196.
navy, Master - at - arms,

British navy, Pay and gratu-

ities, 194.

navy pay table, 190.
navy, Recruiting depots,
189.

navy, Relative ranks of
officers, 181.

navy requirements for en-
listment, 190.

navy, Sea Lords, 177.
navy, Seamen boys, 188.
navy, Sick-berth attend-
ants, 189.

navy, Signal boys, 189.
navy, Stokers in, 189.
navy, Transport depart-
ment, 179.

navy, Victualing depart-
ment, 179.

navy, Warrant officers,
182.

officers, Pay of, 183.
Royal navy, 177.
torpedoes, 257.

Built-up gun, 219.

Bulkhead, Collision, 269.

Bulkheads, Regulations for,

351.

Buoys, Life, 349.
Bureau, Chief of, 153.

C

Cable and hawser, 286.
Capacity of life boats, 338.
Capped projectile, 238.
Card, Compass, 85.
Carriage, Gun, 241.
Case shot, 238.

Celestial equator, 122.
latitude, 127.
longitude, 127.

longitude, Circles of, 126.

meridians, 123.

navigation, 122.
pole, 122.

sphere, 122.

Center of sphere, 94.

of storm, To find, 370.
Certificate, ordinary, Expla-
nation of, 363.

Certificates, ordinary, Table
of, 362.

Compass management, 81.
points, Conversion of, 93.
points, Foreign, 88.
points, Table of, 86.
Compensation of compass,
73.

Complement of an arc, 64.
Components, Magnetic, 70.
Composition of hull, 261.
of steel, 224.

Compound armor, 273.
proportion, 17.
Conjunction, 127.

Inferior, 127.
Superior, 127.

Constants, Table of, 278.
Constructing a Mercatorial
chart, 108.

Construction of guns, Prin-
ciples of, 221.

of ships, Principles of, 258.
Constructive branch, British
navy, 178.

Constructors, U. S. Naval,
155.

Consumption of fuel, Calcu-
lations for, 282.
Continuous aim, 242.
Controller, British navy, 178.
Conversion of compass
points, 93.

Corps, Medical, 155.
Pay, 155.

Correction of altitudes, 131.
of courses, 83.
Cosecant of an angle, 65.
Cosine of an angle, 64.
Cotangent of an angle, 64.
Course, Compass, 83.
Initial, 97.
made good, 96.
True, 83.

Courses, Corrections of, 83.
Coxswain, Duties of, 165.
Cross-bearings, 112.

-hitch, 300.
Crossing vessels, 336.
Cruisers, Armored, 206.

Protected, 207.

Scout, 209.
Cubic measure, 1.
Cutters, 217.

Cutters, Steam, 217.
Cyclones and hurricanes, 366.
Cylinder, Recoil, 241.
Cylinders, Formulas of, 26.

D

Daily routine, U. S. navy,
173.

Danger angle, Horizontal,
119.

angle, Vertical, 119.
angles, 118.

Dangerous semicircle, 366.
Date, Greenwich, 131.

Davit, Welin quadrant, 343.
Day, Apparent solar, 129.
Astronomical, 130.

Civil, 130.

Mean solar, 129.
Sidereal, 130.
Day's work, 103.

work, Elements of, 103.
Dead reckoning, Examples
of, 97.

reckoning, Formulas for,
97.

reckoning, Navigation by,
97.

Decimals, Addition of, 15.
and fractions, 15.
Division of, 16.
Multiplication of, 16.
Subtraction of, 15.

Deck, Officers of the, 169.
stringer, 264.
Declination, 125.

run, 96.

signals, 307.

Zenith, 124.

Distances of visibility, 117.
Table of, 4.

Table of sailing, 149.
Distant signals, Special,
308.

Distress signals, 20.
Diurnal motion, 123.

Division by logarithms, 38.
of decimals, 16.
of fractions, 13.

officers, U. S. navy, 169.
Divisions and drills, British
navy, 198.

Dockyard branch, British
navy, 179.

Dockyards, British naval,
180.

Dog watches, 175.

Double carrick bend, 300.
Drags, or floating anchors,
351.

Drags, Table of dimensions
of, 353.

Driggs fuse, 240.

-Schroeder breech plug,
231.

Drilling, U. S. navy, 171.
Drills and divisions, British
navy, 198.

Drowned persons, Restoring
of apparently, 382.

Dry measure, 2.
Ductility of steel, 224.

E

Earth, Axis of, 95.

Poles of, 95.

Ecliptic, 122.

Obliquity of, 123.

Electric night signals, 313.
primer, 235.

Elements of solar system,
Table of, 128.

Ellipse, Formulas of, 25.
Elongation, 129.

Elswick breech plug, 230.
Engineer commanders, Brit-
ish navy, 195.

Engineering branch, British
navy, 179.

Engineer officers, U. S. navy,
170.

English money, 5.

Enlistment and pay, U. S.

navy, 158.
record, 173.

Regulations of, 158.
requirements, British
navy, 190.

Equal altitudes near noon,

141.

Equation of time, 129.
Equator, Celestial, 122.
Geographical, 95.
Magnetic, 70.
Equinoctial, 122.

Equinox, Autumnal, 122.
Vernal, 122.

Equipment of life boats, 341.
Equivalents, Metric, 10.
Error, Heeling, 75.

The compass, 68.
Evolution, 19.

Formula, Hour-angle, 138.

Formulas of circles, 23.

of cylinders, 26.

of ellipse, 25.

of sector, 25.
of segment, 25.
of sphere, 26.
of trapezium, 25.

of triangles, 23.

Four-flag signal, 305.

-point bearings, 113.

Fractions, Addition of, 13.

and decimals, 15.

Common, 13.
Division of, 13.

Multiplication of, 13.

Reduction of, 14.

Subtraction of, 13.

Galvanized steel hawsers,

Table of, 291.

Garboard strake, 263.
Gas-check slope, 230.
-checking, 233.
Gauging star, 228.
Gear, Obry, 251.
Sinking, 253.

General quarters, U.S. navy,
172.

Geographical equator, 95.
Gig, 217.

Granny knot, 300.
Great circle, 95.

-circle chart, 111.
-circle sailing, 97.

-circle track, To plot, 111.

circle, Vertex of, 97.
Greenwich date, 131.
Gross tonnage, 279.
Gunboats, 211.

Gun, Breech-loading, 219.

Built-up, 219.

captain, Duties of, 166.
carriage, 241.

construction, Principles of,
221.

division, U. S. navy, 170.
Hunt, 350.

Lyle, 350.

Machine, 220.

mounts, 241.

Powder chamber of, 229.

Rapid fire, 219.

recoil, 241.

Rifled, 219.