The Men on Deck - Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities, 1918.pdf
Year: 1918 Language: English Author: Riesenberg F. Genre: Manual Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company Format: PDF/EPUB Quality: eBook Pages count: 417 Description: The Men on Deck - Master, Mates and Crew. Their Duties and ResponsibilitiesIN the days of sail, the duties of masters, mates, and crews,were well defined. Sea practice, in the various rigs, hadbecome standard with the authority of an ancient calling.The art of sailing, and of rigging ships, was a precisematter. Gear remained standard for a century. The mainto'bowline of a Black Ball Liner, tearing to windward ina North Atlantic hummer, was rove and led in much thesame fashion as the main to'bowline of the ships of Nelsonand Van Tromp. And the old time seamen, in their usageand habits, followed the regularity of the ships upon whichthey sailed.The gradual transition from sail to steam carried withit, for a time, the old system of sailing ship routine. Butto-day the sailing ship sailor is a thing of the past; the worksof steam and steel are upon the waters we are in the ageof engines and the engineer. Great problems of mechanicalpropulsion, and of construction, are constantly presentingthemselves, and the successors of the ancient mariner, themodern master, mates, and crew; the
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The Men on Deck - Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities, 1918.pdf
Language: English
Author: Riesenberg F.
Genre: Manual
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company
Format: PDF/EPUB
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 417
Description: The Men on Deck - Master, Mates and Crew. Their Duties and ResponsibilitiesIN the days of sail, the duties of masters, mates, and crews,were well defined. Sea practice, in the various rigs, hadbecome standard with the authority of an ancient calling.The art of sailing, and of rigging ships, was a precisematter. Gear remained standard for a century. The mainto'bowline of a Black Ball Liner, tearing to windward ina North Atlantic hummer, was rove and led in much thesame fashion as the main to'bowline of the ships of Nelsonand Van Tromp. And the old time seamen, in their usageand habits, followed the regularity of the ships upon whichthey sailed.The gradual transition from sail to steam carried withit, for a time, the old system of sailing ship routine. Butto-day the sailing ship sailor is a thing of the past; the worksof steam and steel are upon the waters we are in the ageof engines and the engineer. Great problems of mechanicalpropulsion, and of construction, are constantly presentingthemselves, and the successors of the ancient mariner, themodern master, mates, and crew; the
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