The art of rigging: containing an explanation of terms and phrases and the progressive method of rigging expressly adapted for sailing ships
(2012)
Nonfiction
eBook
Series:
Transportation research record
#no. 1254
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780486135618 (electronic bk.) MWT11603465, 0486135616 (electronic bk.) 11603465
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
Transportation research record #no. 1254
NOTES
The best manual ever produced on rigging a sailing ship, based on extensively revised and updated 1848 edition prepared by Biddlecombe, Master in the Royal Navy. Complete definition of terms, on-shore operations, process of rigging ships, reeving the running rigging and bending sails, rigging brigs, yachts and small vessels, more. 17 plates
Mode of access: World Wide Web