"The Seaman's Friend" by Richard Henry Dana is an essential handbook from the 1800s, acting as a sailor's companion through the intricacies of life on the water. Focused on practical seamanship, the book thoroughly discusses shipbuilding, rigging, and the rules that govern sea life. It begins by stating its mission to help sailors, owners, and legal professionals, then jumps into practical advice, especially about building and managing ships, sails, and rigging. With easy-to-understand diagrams and plain instructions, it reveals important specs for merchant ship design and operation while teaching readers about the tools and words they'll need on the job, setting the stage for learning all the ins and outs of being a sailor.
The Seaman's Friend Containing a treatise on practical seamanship, with plates, a dictionary of sea terms, customs and usages of the merchant service
By Richard Henry Dana
Discover how ships are built and run, and learn the secret language of the sea through the eyes of sailors from a bygone era.
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About the AuthorRichard Henry Dana Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War in the Prize Cases. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen.
Richard Henry Dana Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast and as an attorney who successfully represented the U.S. government before the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civil War in the Prize Cases. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen.
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