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SHIPS & SHIPPING

A HANDBOOK OF POPULAR NAUTICAL

INFORMATION; WITH NUMEROUS
DIAGRAMS PLANS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

EDITED BY

FRANCIS MILTOUN

LONDON

ALEXANDER MORING LTD.
THE DE LA MORE PRESS
298 REGENT STREET W

1903





PREFACE

THIS book has been compiled with the object of providing in a convenient and attractive form nautical information of the kind required by intelligent landsmen whose interest has been raised in the maritime heritage of our empire. Information of this kind has hitherto been almost entirely inaccessible, since it is contained partly in large and cumbrous books of reference, and partly in expensive technical works, or in Government publications.

In the first edition of a work of this kind absolute completeness is naturally not possible, and the pub­lisher will be very glad to receive any suggestions for correction or improvement.

Though there has been no attempt to provide a monograph on any one particular aspect of maritime knowledge, it is claimed that the work covers a wide ground and contains in a condensed form the informa­tion most likely to be serviceable to the traveller and the general enquirer.

It has been the aim of the Editor to obtain his facts from the most authentic sources, and in this connexion thanks are due to Lloyd's for their kind permission to print extracts from their most valuable CALENDAR, and to Messrs. Thacker & Co. for the same courteous permission to use their handy and comprehensive NAVAL POCKET BOOK, to both of which works the reader is referred for additional facts should he desire either to know more of the Merchant Service or of the Navy. Thanks are also due to the Navy League for permission to reprint the article dealing with its work, and to the various Steamship Companies who have kindly placed at the Editor's disposal the lists of their fleets, and other interesting details connected with their lines of steamers.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I
1. THE MAKING OF THE SHIP
2. THE SAILING OF THE SHIP
3. COURSE AND DIRECTION
4. DISTANCE
5. TIME
6. ATMOSPHERE
7. THE ROYAL NAVY
8. THE MERCHANT SERVICE
9. EMBLEMS
10. SIGNALS
11. LIGHTS AND LIGHTHOUSES
12. BUOYS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM     
13. SHIP CANALS
14. THE HIGH SEAS  
15. YACHTING
16. LLOYD'S — see also Signals
17. GAZETEER
18. NAUTICAL VOCABULARY


PART II

19. ILLUSTRATED LIST OF THE SHIPS OF THE ROYAL NAVY
20. MERCHANT SHIPS CONVERTIBLE INTO WAR VESSELS
21. FLEETS OF PRINCIPAL STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
22. THE NAVY LEAGUE


VIKING SHIP OF KING ALFRED'S DAY.
 
TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VIKING SHIP OF K. ALFRED'S DAY
(COLOURED PLATE)
DIAGRAM OF DEVELOPMENT OF CUNARDER
GALLEY OF COLUMBUS (COLOURED PLATE)
DIAGRAM OF A FULL-RIGGED SHIP
TYPES OF SAILING VESSELS
A MARINER'S COMPASS
H.M.S. VICTORY (COLOURED PLATE)
SECTIONAL VIEWS OF A MODERN WARSHIP
SECTIONAL VIEW OF MODERN LINER
FLAGS (COLOURED PLATE)
OBJECTS USED IN SIGNALLING
SIGNALS (COLOURED PLATE)
VIEWS OF LIGHTHOUSES      
ILLUSTRATIONS OF BUOYS
SAILORS' KNOTS
H.M.S. KING ALFRED (COLOURED PLATE)
There are besides numerous cuts illustrating types of the
Royal Navy and Merchant Services.

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