Author: William Henry SmythPublisher: London : Blackie and son
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
The Sailor's Word-book
Author: William Henry SmythPublisher: London : Blackie and son
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
Nautical Dictionary
Author: Arthur YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Sailing
Author: Henry BeardPublisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 9780761123873
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
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.
Nautical Dictionary ...
Author: Arthur Young (Adjuster of Averages, Dundee.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Nautical Dictionary
Author: Joseph P. O'FlynnPublisher: Harbor House (West) Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Dictionary of Nautical Acronyms and Abbreviations
Author: Donald LaunerPublisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 1574092391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
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.
Nautical dictionary. By A. Young, assisted by J. Brisbane
Author: Arthur Young (adjuster of averages, Dundee.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The Overlook Illustrated Dictionary of Nautical Terms
Author: Graham BlackburnPublisher: Overlook Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A useful and illustrated reference to nautical terms with more than 2500 alphabetical entries, often cross-referenced.
A Dictionary of Nautical Terms
Author: A. G. CoursePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Sailor's Word
Author: William Henry SmythPublisher:
ISBN: 9781934757413
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.