Excerpt from Rudimentary Treatise of Masting, Mast-Making, and Rigging of Ships: Also, Tables of Spars, Rigging, Blocks, Chain, Wire, and Hemp Ropes, &C., &C., Relative to Every Class of Vessels, Together With an Appendix of Dimensions of Masts and Yards of the Royal Navy of Great Britain and IrelandFrom official duties, during the period of his employment in one of the largest private Naval and Commercial Dock Establishments in the north of England, where he had frequent occasion to direct his attention to the mode of.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.