A sea grammar vvith the plaine exposition of Smiths Accidence for young sea-men, enlarged. Diuided into fifteene chapters: what they are you may partly conceiue by the contents. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes gouernour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.
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- A sea grammar vvith the plaine exposition of Smiths Accidence for young sea-men, enlarged. Diuided into fifteene chapters: what they are you may partly conceiue by the contents. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes gouernour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England.
- Author
- Smith, John, 1580-1631.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Iohn Hauiland,
- 1627.
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- Naval art and science -- Early works to 1800.
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"A sea grammar vvith the plaine exposition of Smiths Accidence for young sea-men, enlarged. Diuided into fifteene chapters: what they are you may partly conceiue by the contents. Written by Captaine Iohn Smith, sometimes gouernour of Virginia, and admirall of Nevv-England." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12469.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
Contents
- title page
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TO ALL THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, AND most generous Lords in
England, especially those of his Maiesties Priuy Councell, and Councell of Warre. - TO THE READER AND ALL WORTHY AD∣uenturers by Sea, and well wishers to NAVIGATION.
- TO HIS WELL DESER∣uing friend Captaine IOHN SMITH.
- To the much deseruing Captaine, Iohn Smith.
- TO HIS VVORTHILY deseruing friend Captaine IOHN SMITH.
- In laudem Nobilissimi viri Johannis Smith.
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TO HIS FRIEND Captaine
Smith, on his GRAMMAR. - In Authorem.
- In Authorem.
- The CONTENTS.
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A Sea Grammar.
- Chap. I. Of Dockes, and their definitions.
- CHAP. II. How to build a ship with the definitions of all the principall names of euery part of her prin∣cipall timbers, also how they are fixed one to another, and the reasons of their vse.
- CHAP. III. How to proportion the Masts and Yards for a Ship, by her Beame and Keele.
- CHAP. IIII. The names of all the Masts, Tops, and Yards be∣longing to a Ship.
- CHAP. V. How all the Tackling and Rigging of a Ship is made fast one to another, with their names, and the reasons of their vse.
- CHAP. VI. What doth belong to the Boats and Skiffe with the definition of all those thirteene Ropes which are onely properly called Ropes belonging to a ship and the Boat and their vse.
- Chap. VII. The names of all sorts of Anchors, Cables, and Sailes, and how they beare their propor∣tions, with their vse. Also how the Ord∣nances should bee placed, and the goods stowed in a ship.
- CHAP. VIII. The charge and duty of the Captaine of a ship, and euery Office and Officer in a man of Warre.
- CHAP. IX. Proper Sea tearmes for diuiding the company at Sea, and stearing, sayling, or moring a Ship in faire weather, or in a storme.
- CHAP. X. Proper tearmes for the Winds , Ebbes, Floods, and Eddies, with their definitions, and an estimate of the depth of the Sea, by the height of the Hils and the largenesse of the Earth.
- CHAP. XI. Proper Sea tearmes belonging to the good or bad condition of Ships, how to finde them and amend them.
- CHAP. XII. Considerations for a Sea Captaine in the choise of his Ship, and in placing his Ordnance. In giuing Chase, Boording, and entering a man of warre like himselfe, or a defending Mer∣chant man.
- CHAP. XIII. How to manage a fight at Sea , with the proper tearmes in a fight largely expressed, and the ordering of a Nauy at Sea.
- Chap. XIV. The names of all sorts of great Ordnance, and their appurtenances, with their pro∣per tearmes and expositions, also diuers obseruations concerning their shooting, with a Table of proportion for their weight of metall, weight of powder, weight of shot, and there best at randome and point blanke inlarged.
- A Table of proportion for the weight and shooting of great Ordnance.
- CHAP. XV. How they diuide their shares in a man of Warre, what Bookes and Instruments are fit for a Sea man, with diuers aduertisements for Sea men, and the vse of the petty Tally.