A Book for the Hammock

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William Clark Russell. A Book for the Hammock

A Book for the Hammock

Table of Contents

PREFACE

A NAUTICAL LAMENT

SUPERSTITIONS OF THE SEA

OLD SEA ORDNANCE

THE HONOUR OF THE FLAG

THE NAVAL OFFICER’S SPIRIT

WOMEN AS SAILORS

FIGHTING SMUGGLERS

SEA PHRASES

THEN AND NOW

COSTLY SHIPWRECKS

CURIOSITIES OF DISASTERS AT SEA

INFERNAL MACHINES

QUEER FISH

STRANGE CRAFT

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES

RICH CAPTURES

PECULIARITIES OF RIG

HOW THE OLD NAVIGATORS MANAGED

PLATES AND RIVETS.[78]

FRENCH SMACKSMEN

OLD SEA CUSTOMS

WHO IS VANDERDECKEN?

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William Clark Russell

Published by Good Press, 2021

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“If,” writes Sir Thomas Browne to his sailor son in 1664, “you have a globe, you may easily learne the starres as also by bookes. Waggoner[3] you will not be without, which will teach the particular coasts, depths of roades, and how the land riseth upon several poynts of the compasse.... If they have quadrants, crosse-staffes, and other instruments, learn the practicall use thereof; the names of all parts and roupes about the shippe, what proportion the masts must hold to the length and depth of a shippe, and also the sayles.”

3.Wagenar’s “Speculum Nauticum,” Englished in 1588.

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