The seaman's friend; containing a treatise on practical seamanship ..
A manual of practical seamanship by Richard Henry Dana, published in Boston in 1851 for merchant sailors, mates and shipmasters learning rigging, sail handling and sea law. The engraved plates give numbered line diagrams: a full-rigged ship's standing and running rigging in profile, a hull in longitudinal section with framing and decks, and a grid of knots, hitches, splices and seizings.
