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pp. 2-8 of advertisements, [i-ii], pp. i-vi, [i], pp. iii-viii; pp. i-xxxii; pp. 1-192; pp. 9-15 of advertisements
Good condition. Some staining and wear to the covers, slight bumping to corners. Gilt on tooled letters on spine has largely worn off. Some dents to back cover. Pages iii-vi of the addenda have detached. Some pages of advertisement have tearing. Writing in pen on title page. Some tearing to the fold-out charts.
A guidebook for pilots of ships on the River Thames, either official pilots, or those piloting their own private ships. The guild of mariners had been established in the sixteenth century in response to inexperienced ship pilots on the River Thames making sailing hazardous. This guide was established for those piloting on the ships when the use of large charts was impractical.
Book has a number of fold out charts.
Contents are as follows:
Part I: General Information
Uniform System of Buoyage
Pilotage of the River Thames, &c.
International Code of Signals
Lloyd's Signal Stations
Wireless Telegraph Stations
Weather Forecasting
Storm Warnings
Force and Velocity of the Wind; Scale of Fog Intensity, &c.
Warning Signals for Vessels in Sight (Morse Code)
Distress Signals
Salvage of Torpedoes
Warning Signals displayed by Vessels Accompanying Submarines
Aircraft Distress Signals
Times Signals; Life-boat Stations and Special Life-boat Signals
Derelict Vessels (Report) Act; Signal shown by Vessels on full speed Trials; Ships approaching Squadrons; Signals from H.M. Ships
Difference of Draught of Vessels in Fresh and Salt Water; Floating Wreckage, ec., - Caution
Time-keeping at Sea by means of Time Zones
Regulations as to Cholera, &c., Foreign Steerings Orders Caution
Caution when Approaching British Ports
Mariner's Compass in various Languages
Lights and Lightvessels-Characteristics
Table to convert Points of the Compass into Degrees, &c.
Vessels Marking Wrecks
New Pattern Compass
Bearings and Distances from Headlands, &c.
Part II: Sailing Directions
London Bridge to the Nore
Tides in the Reaches of the River Thames
The River Medway, Sheerness, &c.
Swin Channel, The Nore to Colne River & Gunfleet Sand
Colne River to Orfordness
Orfordeness to Yarmouth Roads and the World
Orfordness to the Downs
From the Nore to the North Foreland, through the Four-Fathom and Horse Channels
From Sheerness and the East Swale to Margate
Prince's, Knob, Alexandra, Edinburgh and Queen's Channels
Margate Roads to Dungeness, Including the Downs
The Strait of Dover
Part III: Tabular Matter
List of Lights of the River Thames, & c.
List of Lighted Buoys of the River Thames, &c.
List of Beacons of the River Thames, &c.
Part IV: Tides and Tidal Streams
Remarks on Tides and the Tide Wave
Diurnal Tides
The Tides and Tidal Streams in the River Thames and It's Estuary - with Tables Showing the Set and Rate of the Streams
Tidal Streams in Dover Strait with Tables, showing the Set and Rate of the Streams
Tide Table - High Water, Full and Change
Appendix
London Pilotage District - Pilotage Examinations, including Full Particulars as Regards Pilotage Certificates, &c.
List of Docks, with Particulars of their Entrances
List of Principal Graving Docks, Patent Slips, &c.
Port of London River Bye-Laws, 1914, Amended, 1922
River Medway Conservancy Bye-Laws, 1915
Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea
International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea
Life-Saving Appliances on Board Ship
Boards of Trade Instructions for Using the Rocket Apparatus
List of Charts and Plans
Thames Estuary
London Gravesend
Sea Reach to River Medway
The Northern Channels
The Rivers Blackwater, Colne, and Crouch
Harwich Harbour and Approaches
Long Sand Head to Orfordness
Orfordness to Yarmouth
The Southern Channels, plates 1 and 2
The Downs
Dover Harbour and Bay.
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