The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With Plates (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Seaman's Friend: Containing a Treatise on Practical Seamanship, With PlatesThis work is published at the same time in England and in America. In the latter country it appears under the title of the "Seaman's Friend;" while that of the "Seaman's Manual" is adopted in the British edition, as more significant of the nature of the book. Mr. Dana has here embodied in a small space and unpretending form a variety of information, which it is hoped may be extensively useful. Not that men who have been bred to the sea can be supposed to derive much instruction from the elementary hints of a book of this kind. Seamanship, like every other manual art, is thoroughly acquired by practice; and skill in its various branches can only be arrived at by actual experience. But young beginners will find useful helps in their study of the duties of sea-life, in the details and explanations here collected from the best available sources. Very few of the terms or the methods of management, in the Merchant Service of America, differ in any material respect from those which are used in English vessels.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.