Lanterna Rally

Author: Edward Blackmore

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-07

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781330856499

Excerpt from The British Mercantile Marine: A Short Historical Review, Including the Rise and Progress of British Shipping and Commerce; The Education of the Merchant Officer; And Duty and Discipline in the Merchant Service The following pages are founded upon a Series of Papers written for, and read before, the Shipmasters' Society of London. As these papers were well received by the Members of that Society, it was more than once suggested to me that they should be collected and published as a volume. Being diffident of their possessing sufficient value for wider dissemination, however, I from time to time waived the idea until the present "Nautical Series" of works, intended by the Publishers as an Educational Series for young sailors, opportunely presented itself. This little book does not, of course, pretend to be in any way exhaustive of the history of the British Mercantile Marine; nevertheless, it is hoped that it will afford a sufficient outline of its Past and Present to be both interesting and instructive to those who care to know anything of the rise and progress of our Merchant Navy. In full detail this is not to be found in any less important work than Mr. W. S. Lindsay's "History of Shipping," a book which is both too expensive for the general reader, and, moreover, was written fully twenty years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.