The Elements and Practice of Rigging, Seamanship, and Naval Tactics
The Elements and Practice of Rigging, Seamanship, and Naval Tactics
£41.00
GBPDavid Steel was one of the most respected and prolific naval publishers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. His publications focused on naval strategy and shipbuilding techniques. This influential four-volume work, first published in 1794, was the first comprehensive English manual of best naval practice. Designed for aspiring young officers, it established Steel's reputation as a publisher. The book describes theoretical and practical aspects of masts, rigging, and sails, and the science of sailing. The combination of practical advice supported by scientific and mathematical explanations and numerous illustrations provides valuable insights into British seamanship during the Napoleonic wars. Volume 4, reissued here in the 1807 edition, explains how to perform standard manoeuvres including anchoring, mooring, getting under sails, and tacking, as well as naval skills such as chasing and boarding other vessels.
Product details
January 2011Paperback
9781108026543
468 pages
216 × 140 × 26 mm
0.59kg
34 b/w illus. 108 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- 1. Seamanship: The practice of working ships
- 2. River-moorings
- 3. Of the ballast and ladings
- 4. On bending sails
- 5. Of getting under sails
- 6. Of anchoring
- 7. On mooring
- 8. Of getting up or weighing anchor
- 9. On tacking
- 10. On veering
- Of lying-to
- 11. Of sounding
- 12. On ships driving
- 13. On setting and taking-in sails in blowing weather
- 14. Of a ship overset on her side
- 15. On chasing
- 16. Of boarding
- 17. Capt. Pakenham's inventions
- 18. Explanation of the terms used in seamanship
- 19. The theory of working ships
- 20. A system of naval tactics.
