Year: 1923 Language: english Author: Soule C.C. Genre: Dictionary Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages Pages count: 124 Description: This little book has been prepared especially for the use of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the belief that the language of the sea is threatened with extinction through disuse and misuse, and that it is in the early days of his training that a Naval Officer should • acquire a nautical vocabulary, so that it will be second nature for him to give his orders properly and correctly. The author lays no claim to originality in this work, but has endeavored to include modern nautical terms, eliminating practically all terms applied to square-rigged sailing vessels, and confining the terms to Seamanship and to general terms in those subjects closely related thereto. The illustrations which have been included in the new edition are from Knight's " Modern Seamanship," Riesenberg's " Standard Seamanship for the Merchant Service," The Boy Scouts of America's "Seascout Manual," and Patterson's "Nautical Encyclopedia," permission to use this material having been very kindly granted.
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Naval terms and definitions
Language: english
Author: Soule C.C.
Genre: Dictionary
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages
Pages count: 124
Description: This little book has been prepared especially for the use of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy in the belief that the language of the
sea is threatened with extinction through disuse and misuse, and that it is in the early days of his training that a Naval Officer should
• acquire a nautical vocabulary, so that it will be second nature for him to give his orders properly and correctly.
The author lays no claim to originality in this work, but has endeavored to include modern nautical terms, eliminating practically
all terms applied to square-rigged sailing vessels, and confining the terms to Seamanship and to general terms in those subjects closely
related thereto.
The illustrations which have been included in the new edition are from Knight's " Modern Seamanship," Riesenberg's " Standard Seamanship for the Merchant Service," The Boy Scouts of America's
"Seascout Manual," and Patterson's "Nautical Encyclopedia," permission to use this material having been very kindly granted.
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