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Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Glascow [Published Date: 1968]. Paper covers, 109 pp. Second Edition, Second Reprint, 1968.
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In good condition. Orange paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and moderate overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Contents include: PART I. CORDAGE AND CABLES: Ropes—Process of Manufacture—Wire Ropes; Care and Maintenance of Ropes—Cutting—Strength— Steel Wire Rope; The Danger of a Taut Span—Strength of a Span; Bends and Hitches— Their Uses; Knots and Splices—Hemp—Wire Splicing—Eye-Splice —Wire Grummet;Point—Graft—Seizing—Lashings—Serving—Flemish Eye; Sennit—Net-Making and Mending; Blocks—Tackles—Purchases—Stropping Blocks; Derricks—Sheers; Boats' Falls, etc.; Laying-out Hawsers—Securing to a Buoy; Securing a Vessel alongside a Wharf or another Vessel; Application of the Parallelogram of Forces to the Foregoing Subject; Towing. PAßT II-ANCHORS AND CABLES: Types of Anchors; Cables—Manufacture—Kinds—Shackles, etc.; Stowage of Anchors; Gable Holders and Capstans; Anchoring—Weighing—Mooring—Unmooring; Mooring Head and Stern; Clearing Hawse; Laying-out Anchors—Bower—Sheet Anchor—Kedging; Some Fancy Knots. Black and white illustrations throughout. [From Preface to the Second Edition] ..^ IN a review of the first edition of this book a naval officer (and a flag officer withal) said: "I fancy, however, that most naval learners will be content to acquire their instruction from practical experience rather than from a book of this class." It was precisely to obviate this, with its consequent destruction of material and danger to life and limb, that I ventured to place on record the results of my own experience and study. If this officer's principles were generally accepted there would be an end to all text books and treatises by experts. I believe that the use of boat-ropes when lowering boats at sea is not sufficiently known and enforced. And, when we read, in accounts of abandoning ships, of boats being "capsized" on being lowered, I always suspect this of being the cause..