The Sailor's Word-book
Author : William Henry Smyth
Publisher : London : Blackie and son
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : William Henry Smyth
Publisher : London : Blackie and son
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Young
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Naval art and science
ISBN :
Author : Henry Beard
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780761123873
Printed in an irresistible new gift format, this pocket dictionary brings new meaning to the things said at sea. The cleverly essential volume defines and illustrates the terms of sailing, from "ahoy" to "zephyr". Drawings throughout.
Author : Arthur Young (Adjuster of Averages, Dundee.)
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 1846
Category :
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Author : Joseph P. O'Flynn
Publisher : Harbor House (West) Publishers
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Donald Launer
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1574092391
Written for the recreational boater, whether experienced or new to boating, this handy dictionary contains listings of all the acronyms, abbreviations and truncations that recreational sailors encounter in nautical magazine articles, books, instruction manuals and Coast Guard reports.
Author : Arthur Young (adjuster of averages, Dundee.)
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Graham Blackburn
Publisher : Overlook Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 36,81 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A useful and illustrated reference to nautical terms with more than 2500 alphabetical entries, often cross-referenced.
Author : A. G. Course
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : William Henry Smyth
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781934757413
Almost 800 pages . 12,764 Definitions. The Most Complete Reference of Its Kind It's one thing to compile a dictionary of nautical terms from the Age of Sail; but it's quite another when the people doing the compiling actually lived them. That is exactly the situation in The Sailor's Word. William Henry Smyth (1788-1865) was in the Royal Navy for over 25 years, rising from a ship's boy on a West India merchantman to a Royal Navy Admiral. In addition to commanding several Royal Navy ships, he became world famous as a hydrographer (some of his charts were still in use in the 1960's), and as an astronomer (he eventually became president of the Royal Astronomical Society). The last years of his life, however, were spent compiling The Sailor's Word from his vast storehouse of nautical experience; but he died before he could see it published. His family decided to go forth with the publication of his final work. Their selection of an editor couldn't have been better: Sir Edward Belcher (1799-1877). Sir Edward was a Royal Navy officer with even more experience than Smyth. In his 40 years of service he captained numerous ships and generated a well-deserved reputation as a naval surveyor. His final command was of the unsuccessful expedition to find the missing and ill-fated explorer, Sir John Franklin. A cousin of Frederick Marryat, it can be plausibly argued that his novel, Horatio Howard Brenton, was the real model for C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower. If you want to understand modern nautical fiction, you have to understand the language they used and the way they actually used it-not the way you think they used it.