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Dedication

THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO

THE MEMORY OF

MY FATHER

DAVID WILSON-BARKER

PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION

THIS Edition has been revised and brought up to date. It includes a copy of the last Rules of the Road to be learnt by heart for the Board of Trade Examinations. Students are advised to make small models with which to practise the different evolutions and to exercise themselves in signalling.

Seamanship is the art of handling a ship with all its appurtenances and crew. It includes navigation, pilotage, anchoring, avoidance of collision, cargo work, &c. Theoretically its basis is in mathematics and physics. In practice, nerve, judgment, and above all experience make the capable seaman.

Sailors, as a class, are conservative and opposed to change. I would urge all young sailors to study their profession carefully, and to keep themselves informed on all matters connected with it; an easy matter now that so many excellent technical papers are devoted to the progress and welfare of the profession. Whether a young man elects to start in sail or steam he has a wide scope for the putting forth of all his energy and intelligence, if he takes his work in earnest. There is a mistaken idea in some quarters that in steam there is nothing to learn. The exact contrary to the fact. Quite as much nautical knowledge and skill is required as in a sailing ship, though the application is somewhat different.

GREENHITHE.

D. WILSON-BARKER.

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION

THIS Edition has been considerably enlarged and a number of new illustrations added. With the kind assistance of Mr. A. W. Lambert a chapter has been inserted on foreand-aft sailing, for which Messrs. West supplied photographs.

I am indebted to the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House for the use of photographs of lighthouses, light vessels, and buoys.

Messrs. Bullivant and Co., 72 Mark Lane, kindly lent me blocks of several of their well-known patents, and also supplied me with valuable tables and hints in connection with wire ropes and their fittings.

Messrs. Thomas Walker and Son, of Birmingham, were good enough to furnish illustrations of their patent logs; Messrs. Emerson, Walker and Thompson Bros. Ltd., Gateshead-on-Tyne, of steam winch and windlass; Messrs. Stone and Co., Deptford., of their telegraph apparatus and capstan; and to Lloyd's "Register of Shipping," and to the " Shipping World Year Book" I am indebted for much useful matter.

A chapter of hints and information intended for the benefit of those who contemplate adopting a sea life, or who are actually embarked on such a career, has been added.

GREENHITHE, September 1902.

D. WILSON-BARKER.

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