A MANUAL OF

ELEMENTARY SEAMANSHIP

EDITED BY EDW. BLACKMORE

Master Mariner, First Class Trinity House Certificate, Assoc. Inst. N.A.;
AND WRITTEN, MAINLY, by SAILORS for SAILORS.

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The British Mercantile Marine: An Historical Sketch of its Rise and Development. By the EDITOR, CAPT. BLACKMORE. "Captain Blackmore's SPLENDID BOOK

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Elementary Seamanship. By D. WILSON-BARKER, Master Mariner, F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S. With numerous Plates, two in Colours, and Frontispiece. FIFTH EDITION, Thoroughly Revised. With additional Illustrations.

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Know Your Own Ship: A Simple Explanation of the Stability, Construction, Tonnage and Freeboard of Ships. By THOS. WALTON, Naval Architect. ELEVENTH EDITION.

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Navigation: Theoretical and Practical. By D. WILSON-BARKER and WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. SECOND EDITION, Revised.

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Marine Meteorology: For Officers of the Merchant Navy.

By

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Latitude and Longitude: How to find them. By W. J. MILLAR,

C.E. SECOND EDITION, Revised.

"Cannot but prove an acquisition to those studying Navigation."-Marine Engineer. Practical Mechanics: Applied to the requirements of the Sailor. B THOS. MACKENZIE, Master Mariner, F.R.A.S. THIRD EDITION, Revised. "WELL WORTH the money EXCEEDINGLY HELPFUL."-Shipping World.

Trigonometry: For the Young Sailor, &c.

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Practical Algebra. By RICH. C. BUCK. Companion Volume to the above, for Sailors and others. SECOND EDITION, Revised.

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The Legal Duties of Shipmasters. By BENEDICT WM. GINSBURG,
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EDITION, Thoroughly Revised and Enlarged.
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A Medical and Surgical Help for Shipmasters. Including First
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Hospital, Greenwich. THIRD EDITION, Thoroughly Revised.
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UNI OF

"

ELEMENTARY SEAMANSHIP

BY

COMMANDER D. WILSON-BARKER, R.N.R.

MASTER MARINer; f.r.s.., f.r.G.S.; PAST PRESIDENT R. MET. Soc.
YOUNGER BROTHER OF THE TRINITY HOUSE

With Frontispiece, Twenty-four Plates (Three in
Colours) and Sixty-three Fllustrations in the Text

FIFTH EDITION, REVISED

LONDON

CHARLES GRIFFIN AND COMPANY, LIMITED
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY