He has performed his work intelligently and well, leaving out what was obsolete, introducing much new material, rearranging the subjects, and bringing the text down to the present time. It was for long years supposed, moreover, that some more competent hand would have undertaken an entirely new work.įinding this expectation not realized, Lieutenant Aaron Ward has kindly consented to undertake the task of revision. Its deficiencies were so numerous and so obvious and the circumstances under which it was prepared so well known that apologies seemed altogether superfluous. Of this the compiler has been fully conscious. Immediate wants of the Naval Academy, and revised at different periods under the pressure of other duties, has not merited the place it has so long occupied as a text-book. THIS work, originally compiled in haste to meet the Please report any typos, or particularly annoying layout issues with the Mail Feedback Form for correction. However, this text was captured by optical character recognition and then encoded for the Web which has added new errors we wish to correct. We have not attempted to correct any errors found in the original document. The text to move, but the text will remain roughly where it is in the original In this online version of the manual we have attempted to keep the flavor of the original layout while taking advantage Text-Book of Seamanship, 1891, is an updated age of sail textbook at the beginning of the true transition of warships from sail to steam power.
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