History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce (1874)
Lindsay, William Schaw · London : Sampson Low · leaf 40
fficer, whose especial duty it was to take heedof possible rocks or shoals, and to direct the ship atnight by the aid of long poles,st. Pauls It is remarkable that while we have many noticesof matters comparatively unimportant, no writer ofantiquity has given us any intelligible account of… … MERCHANT SHIPPING. xxxvii modern authors been much more successful; with theexception of Mr. Smith, of Jordan Hill. His essay On the Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul, thework of a man of much practical experience in themanagement of sailing craft, and a yachtsman ofthirty years practice, is a…
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