The California Nautical Magazine
IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY,
BY CAPT. John H. Bell, at his Nautical and Astronomical Academy, 405 Front street, and henceforth will be MAILED to subscribers (postage paid) in the city or country, on or before the 1st of each month. Back numbers can be had by application at the office, or by letter, addressed "Nautical Magazine, Postoffice, Box 800."Every Merchant, Shipowner, Captain, and Underwriter should have the Nautical Magazine. It treats of Nautical Education, Necessity of a School Ship for the training of seamen, the Rise and Progress of the American Marine, Advise to Young Men, Take it Coolly, Marine Premiums, the Teredo, Law of Storms, Winds and Currents on The Coast of Japan, Examination of Officers, Anchoring, Astronomy, Statistics, New Discoveries, Deviation of the Compass, Centres of Motion and Gravity in Vessels, Velocity of Ships, Old Jack's Opinions, Sailing directions for China and Japan, Regulations for Saigon Harbor, New Lights, Marine Insurance, Equation of Time, Duties of Shipmasters, Rules for the stowage of mixed cargoes, the Log Book, Extraordinary forms of Mirage, Monsoons and Typhoons in the China Sea, Problems and Solutions, Ships and Ships' Timbers, Reflections on the Causes of Shipwrecks, Barratry cases in the Pacific, Shipmasters' Association, Marine Disasters, with a mass of other matter, which will be found very valuable to all who are engaged in commerce and entertaining to those who are not. Subscriptions, $5 per annum.
Mr. J.J. LeMare is authorized to solicit and collect subscriptions or advertisements.
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American Sailing Ships: Their Plans and History
Charles G. Davis
Photos, construction details of schooners, frigates, clippers, other sailcraft of 18th to early 20th centuries -- discourse on design, rigging, nautical lore, much more. 137 illustrations.