Stopford Captain (8 results)

hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Second edition. Glasgow: Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., (1940). Second edition. hardcover. Near Fine. Octavo, yellow cloth covers stamped in black; vii [1] + 116 pages. Includes black and white illustrations. 021210A.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Presumed 1st ed. vii,108pp. Illus drawings & diagrams. Boards lightly rubbed & sl. damage head & tail of spine. Small stamp of previous owner on ffep. Date insc'n. to another owner on front paste. Odd stain inside but generally a decent copy.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 2nd. Brown, Son & Ferguson, Ltd., Glascow [Published Date: 1968]. Paper covers, 109 pp. Second Edition, Second Reprint, 1968. In good condition. Orange paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and moderate overall scuffing and soiling. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Contents include: PART I. CORDAGE AND CABLES: Ropes?Process of Manufacture?Wire Ropes; Care and Maintenance of Ropes?Cutting?Strength? Steel Wire Rope; The Danger of a Taut Span?Strength of a Span; Bends and Hitches? Their Uses; Knots and Splices?Hemp?Wire Splicing?Eye-Splice ?Wire Grummet;Point?Graft?Seizing?Lashings?Serving?Flemish Eye; Sennit?Net-Making and Mending; Blocks?Tackles?Purchases?Stropping Blocks; Derricks?Sheers; Boats' Falls, etc.; Laying-out Hawsers?Securing to a Buoy; Securing a Vessel alongside a Wharf or another Vessel; Application of the Parallelogram of Forces to the Foregoing Subject; Towing. PAßT II-ANCHORS AND CABLES: Types of Anchors; Cables?Manufacture?Kinds?Shackles, etc.; Stowage of Anchors; Gable Holders and Capstans; Anchoring?Weighing?Mooring?Unmooring; Mooring Head and Stern; Clearing Hawse; Laying-out Anchors?Bower?Sheet Anchor?Kedging; Some Fancy Knots. Black and white illustrations throughout. [From Preface to the Second Edition] .^ IN a review of the first edition of this book a naval officer (and a flag officer withal) said: "I fancy, however, that most naval learners will be content to acquire their instruction from practical experience rather than from a book of this class." It was precisely to obviate this, with its consequent destruction of material and danger to life and limb, that I ventured to place on record the results of my own experience and study. If this officer's principles were generally accepted there would be an end to all text books and treatises by experts. I believe that the use of boat-ropes when lowering boats at sea is not sufficiently known and enforced. And, when we read, in accounts of abandoning ships, of boats being "capsized" on being lowered, I always suspect this of being the cause.

Cloth. Condition: Good Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Second Edition. 'A useful manual especially designed for people interested in rigging blocks and tackle and in handling anchors etc.'. 116pp, numerous diagrams and line drawings. Bright, clean interior, unmarked, pages white. Sound hinges, tight, square binding. Only slight wear to the cloth at tips of corners. We ship Worldwide, use both Canada Post and the United States Postal Service, and offer postal charges based on our actual costs, without overcharging. This item weighs 264g and qualifies for inexpensive Lettermail postage within Canada. USA rates rise by weight alone. World rates based on specific destination plus weight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black & white drawings (illustrator). Reprint ; very good, fresh copy ; no inscriptions ; no dust wrapper.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. 2 nd Ed. Ships from u.k Ex. lib markings inside front cover and stamps to rear. hinges cracked, contents sound Size: 8 Vo. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine First Edition hardcover. No d/j. Ffep is foxed and there are owner details on ffep and paste-down endpaper. Fully illustrated. 108pp.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good/Very Good. pp 55 Internally very good with a little browning, binding sound, wrapper reasonably bright with some fraying to the spine, front panel has two unobtrusive institutional stamps, bottom corner torn Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.