| PART I. |
| 1. To knot a Rope-Yarn |
| 2. To make a Fox |
| 3. To make a Spanish Fox |
| 4. To make a Knittle |
| 5. Overhanded Knot |
| 6. Figure of Eight-Knot |
| 7. Two Half-Hitches |
| 8. Reef or Square Knot |
| 9. A Bowline Knot |
| 10. Bowline on the Bight |
| 11. A Running Bowline |
| 12. A Timber-Hitch |
| 13. A Fisherman's Bend |
| 14. A Rolling Bend |
| 15. A Carrick Bend |
| 16. a Cat's-Paw |
| 17. a Sheet or Becket Bend |
| 18. A Black-Wall Hitch |
| 19. A Rolling Hitch |
| 20. A Salvagee Strap |
| 21. A Pudding for a Mast or Yard |
| 22. A Short Splice |
| 23. A Long Splice |
| 24. An Eye Splice |
| 25. A Cut Splice |
| 26. A Flemsih Eye |
| 27. An Artificial Eye |
| 28. To worm and serve a Rope |
| 29. To clap on a Throat and Quarter Seizing |
| 30. To make a Turk's Head |
| 31. To Sheepshank a Rope or Backstay |
| 32. To put a Strand in a Rope |
| 33. To Wall and Crown |
| 34. To make a Mathew Walker |
| 35. A Spritsail Sheet Knot |
| 36. A Shroud-Knot |
| 37. A French Shroud Knot |
| 38. A single Diamond Knot |
| 39. A double Diamond Knot |
| 40. A Stopper Knot |
| 41. A Buoy-rope Knot |
| 42. A Common Sennit |
| 43. A Sea Gasket |
| 44. A Panch or Wrought Mat |
| 45. A Harbor Gasket or French Sennit |
| 46. Pointing a Rope |
| 47. To make a Grommet |
| 48. To pass a Rose-Lashing |
| 49. To weave a Sword Mat |
| 50. A Lashing Cleat |
| 51. "A Shell, Pin and Sheave" |
| 52. "A Single, Double and Treble Block" |
| 53. A Shoulder Block |
| 54. A Fiddle Block |
| 55. A Shoe Block |
| 56. A Sister Block |
| 57. A Dead-Eye |
| 58. A Heart |
| 59. A Belaying-pin Rack |
| 60. A Euphroe |
| 61. A Horn Cleat |
| 62. A B-Cleat |
| 63. A Strap for a Block |
| 64. A Tail Block |
| 65. A Purchase Block |
| 66. A Top Block |
| 67. a Cat Block |
| 68. A Snatch Block |
| 69. A Nun Buoy |
| 70. To bend a Buoy-Rope |
| 71. To Pudding the Ring of an Anchor |
| 72. A Jacob's Ladder |
| 73. Can-Hooks |
| 74. Hogshead Slings |
| 75. Barrel Slings |
| 76. A Single Whip |
| 77. A Gun-Tackle Purchase |
| 78. A Luff-Tackle Purchase |
| 79. A Top Burton |
| 80. Whip and Runner |
| 81. Runner and T |
| 82. A Twofold Purchase |
| 83. A Threefold Purchase |
| 84. Names of Ropes |
| PART II. |
| 85. Launching a Ship |
| 86. Cutting out Standing Rigging |
| 87. Cutting out Topmast and Top-gallant Rigging |
| 88. Cutting out Breast and Standing Back-stays |
| 89. Cutting out Catharpen Legs and Futtock Shrouds |
| 90. Cuttinng out Fore and Aft Stays |
| 91. Cutting out Lower Mast Head Pendants |
| 92. Cutting out Bobstays |
| 93. Cutting out Bowsprit Shrouds |
| 94. Cutting out Jib and Flying Jib Guys |
| 95. Cutting out Running Rigging |
| 96. Rigging Shears and taking in Masts and Bowsprit |
| 97. To take in the Mizen Mast |
| 98. To take in the Main and Foremast |
| 99. To take in the Bowsprit |
| 100. Gammoning the Bowsprit |
| 101. Fitting Rigging |
| 102. Fitting Mast-head Pendants |
| 103. Fitting Lower and Topmast Stays |
| 104. To Rig the Foremast |
| 105. Futtock Shrouds |
| 106. To Rig the Main and Mizen Mast |
| 107. To Rig the Bowsprit |
| 108. Getting Tops over (whole Tops) |
| 109. Getting Half-tops over |
| 110. Getting up Top-blocks |
| 111. Getting up Top-masts |
| 112. Getting the Cap into the Top |
| 113. Turning in Dead-eyes |
| 114. Getting Topmast Cross-trees over |
| 115. Placing Topmast Rigging |
| 116. To seize-in the Sister Blocks |
| 117. Backstays (Breast) |
| 118. Standing After Backstays |
| 119. Main Topmast Stay |
| 120. Mizen Topmast Stay |
| 121. Getting the Topmast Caps on |
| 122. "Mast-head Man-ropes. &c., &c." |
| 123. Top-Tackle Pendants |
| 124. Preparing to Fd the Topmasts |
| 125. Rattling the Lower and Topmast Rigging |
| 126. Futtock Staves in Topmast Rigging |
| 127. To Rig the Jib-Boom |
| 128. Jib-Boom Martingale Stay |
| 129. Jib-Boom Guys |
| 130. Martingale Back-ropes |
| 131. Placing the Rigging on a Dolphin Striker |
| 132. Getting the Jib-Boom out |
| 133. Sending up Topgallant Masts |
| 134. Royal Rigging |
| 135. Short and Long Topgallant Mast Ropes |
| 136. To Rig the Flying Jib-Boom |
| 137. Spritsail Lifts |
| 138. Spritsail Braces |
| 139. Strapping Thimbles for Guys on Spritsail yard |
| 140. Crossing a Spritsail Yard |
| 141. Two Half-spritsail Yards |
| 142. Whiskers |
| 143. To get on board and rig Lower Yards |
| 144. Truss Straps |
| 145. Truss Pendants |
| 146. Quarter Blocks-Lower Yards |
| 147. Clew Garnet Blocks |
| 148. Lift Blocks-Lower Yards |
| 149. Foot Ropes and Stirrups |
| 150. Jack Stays-Bending and Re |
| 151. Brace Blocks-Lower Yards |
| 152. Placing the Rigging on Lower yards |
| 153. Getting up Jeer Blocks and Reeving Jeers |
| 154. Lower Lift Blocks |
| 155. Reeving Lower Lifts |
| 156. "Main Braces, on Bumkin, &c." |
| 157. Fore Braces |
| 158. Crossing the Lower Yards |
| 159. To get on board the Topsail Yards |
| 160. "Rigging Topsail Yards, Fore and Main" |
| 161. The Mizen-Topsail Yard |
| 162. Placing the Rigging on Topsail Yards |
| 163. Crossing the Topsail Yards |
| 164. Fitting Fly-Blocks for Topsail-Halliards |
| 165. Rigging Topgallant Yards |
| 166. Topgallant Braces |
| 167. Crossing Topgallant Yards |
| 168. Crossing Royal Yards |
| 169. Royal and Topgallant Gear |
| 170. Spanker-Boom Trysail-Masts and Gaff |
| 171. Spanker-Boom Sheets and Guys in one |
| 172. Spanker-Boom Topping Lifts |
| 173. A Brig or Schooner's Main-Boom |
| 174. Reeving Peak-Halliards |
| 175. Reeving Throat-Halliards |
| 176. To Fit Single Vangs |
| 177. To Fit Double Vangs |
| 178. Fitting Gaffs with Cheek or Brail-Blocks |
| 179. Getting up a Gaff |
| 180. Lower Studding-sail or Swinging-Booms |
| 181. "Lower Studding-sail Outhaul-Blocks, &c., &c." |
| 182. "Topmast Studding-sail, Span-Blocks, Halliards, &c." |
| 183. Topgallant Studding-sail Booms |
| 184. Getting Studding-sail Booms up |
| 185. Topgallant Studding-sail Gear |
| 186. Stowing Hold and Spirit Room (Ballast and Tanks) |
| 187. Stowing Casks |
| 188. Stowage of Provisions and Naval Stores |
| 189. Stowing Chain Cables |
| 190. To get on Board and Stow the Hemp Cables |
| 191. Cat-head Stoppers |
| 192. Shank Painter |
| 193. Fish Davit Gear |
| 194. "Getting on Board, and Stowing Anchors" |
| 195. Bending the Cables |
| 196. To Range and Stopper the Cables |
| 197. "Stoppers, &c" |
| 198. "Compressors, or Combing Stoppers" |
| 199. Putting on Nippers |
| 200. "Iron Claw Stoppers, &c." |
| 201. To Cut and Pass a Messenger |
| 202. Splicing Rope Cables |
| 203. To Ship and Unship a Rudder |
| 204. Getting the Guns on Board |
| 205. Fitting Shackle Breechings |
| 206. Triatic Stay |
| 207. Hoisting in Spars |
| 208 Stowing Booms |
| 209. Fore Bowlines |
| 210. Fore Topsail Clewlines |
| 211. Topsail Buntlines |
| 212. Fore-Top Bowlines |
| 213. Main Buntlines |
| 214. Fore Bowlines |
| 215. Main Bowline |
| 216. Top-Gallant Sheets |
| 217. Top-Gallant Clewlines |
| 218. Fore Topgallant Bowlines |
| 219. Main Topgallant Bow |
| 220. Mizen Topgallant Bowlines |
| 221. Topgallant Buntlines |
| 222. Royal Bowlines |
| 223. Reef-Tackles |
| 224. Leech-lines |
| 225. Slab-lines |
| 226. Royal Clew-lines |
| 227. "Fitting Tacks and Sheets, Bumkin, Gear, &c." |
| 228. Yard Tackle Tricing-lines |
| 229. To Reeve and Toggle Royal Halliards |
| 230. Fore-Storm Staysail Gear |
| 231. Main-Staysail Gear |
| 232. Mizen-Staysail Gear |
| 233. "Topmast Staysails, &c. &c." |
| 234. Setting up Rigging for a full due |
| 235. Staying Masts |
| 236. Blacking Rigging |
| 237. Stationing the Crew |
| 238. Stationing the Crew at Quarters |
| 239. Stationing the Crew for Mooring and Unmooring |
| 240. Loosing and Furling |
| 241 Stationing the Crew for Tacking and Veering |
| 242. Getting ready to Bend Sails |
| 243. Bending Sails |
| 244. Bending Small-sails |
| 245. "Bending a Spanker, &c." |
| 246. Fitting Sea-Gaskets |
| 247. Fitting Harbor-Gaskets |
| 248. Bunt-Gaskets |
| 249. Hammock Girtlines |
| 250. Stopping on Hammocks |
| 251. "Furling or Stowing, the Bunt of a Sail" |
| 252. Furling Courses |
| 253. Making up Sails |
| 254. To make up a Topmast Studding-sail |
| 255. "Furling Fore and Aft Sails, with cloths or covers" |
| 256. "Reefing Courses, &c.,-Jackstays" |
| 257. Reef Earings |
| 258. Bending Studding-sails |
| 259. "Preparations for leaving the Wharf, and hauling out in the Stream" |
| 260. Carrying out an Anchor with a Boat |
| 261. Marking the Lead-line |
| 262. Heaving the Lead |
| 263. Marking a Log-line |
| 264. Getting ready for Sea |
| 265. Clear Hawse |
| 266. Weighing an Anchor with the Launch |
| 267. Weighing an Anchor with a Buoy Rope |
| 268. Boating an Anchor |
| 269. Taking in a Launch |
| 270. Taking in Boats both sides at once |
| PART IV. |
| 271. Getting under-weigh |
| 272. "When the Messenger Strands, or is likely to part" |
| 273. "To get under-weigh, and stand before the Wind" |
| 274. To get under-weigh and back a-stern to avoid danger |
| 275. Getting under-weigh-a Shoal on each Beam |
| 276. Getting under-weigh in a Narrow Channel |
| 277. Head to Wind-cast on Larboard Tack |
| 278. Windward Tide-get under-weigh and stand before the wind |
| 279. "To get under-weigh, and stand out on a wind" |
| 280. "Riding head to Tide-wind on the Starboard Quarter, get under-weigh on the Starboard Tack" |
| 281. Getting under-weigh-wind across the Tide |
| 282. To back and fill in a Tideway |
| 283. Driving before the Wind |
| 284. Driving broadsi |
| 285. Securing the Ship for Sea |
| 286. Stowing the Anchors for Sea |
| 287. Setting Topgallant sails-blowing fresh |
| 288. Setting Courses |
| 289. Setting the Spanker |
| 290. Setting the Jib |
| 291. Setting Lower Studding-sails |
| 292. Shifting a Course at Sea |
| 293. Taking in a Course in a Gale of Wind |
| 294. Taking in a Topsail in a Gale of Wind |
| 295. Taking in a Topgallant Sail |
| 296. Taking in a Spanker |
| 297. Setting a Close-reefed Topsail |
| 298. A Close-reefed Topsail Splits |
| 299. A Jib Splits |
| 300. "Wearing a Ship under a Close-reefed Main-Topsail, and Storm-staysail" |
| 301. Wearing under a Main-sail |
| 302. Wearing under Bare Poles |
| 303. Cutting away the Masts |
| 304. Laying-to under Lower Stay-sails-Wear Ship |
| PART V. |
| 305. Precautions for Scudding |
| 306. Scudding-a Ship Broaches-to |
| 307. Scudding-brought by the Lee |
| 308. Heaving-to |
| 309. Taking in a Lower Studding-sail-blowing fresh |
| 310. To unbend a Topsail in a gale of wind |
| 311. Securing in a Gale |
| 312. Preparations for a Hurricane at Sea |
| 313. "Preparations for a Hurricane, at Anchor, and Notes on Barometer" |
| 314. The Foremast is carried away |
| 315. To Rig a Jury Mast |
| 316. Accidents to Tiller in the event of losing a Mast |
| 317. The Mainmast is carried away |
| 318. The Bowsprit is carried away |
| 319. A Topmast is carried away |
| 320. The Jib-Boom is carried away |
| 321. "The Foremast is sprung near the Hounds, or Bibbs" |
| 322. The Foremast and Bowsprit are carried away |
| 323. The Bowsprit is Sprung |
| 324. A Topmast is Sprung near the Lower Cap |
| 325. "To send aloft a Topmast, and a heavy Sea on" |
| 326. The Gammoning carried away |
| 327. A Lower Cap splits |
| 328. The Trestle-trees are Sprung |
| 329. A Lower Yard is carried away in the Slings |
| 330. A Topsail Yard is carried away |
| 331. The Ship leaks faster than the Pumps can free her |
| 332. The Pumps are choked |
| 333. A Shot gets loose in a Gun secured for a Gale |
| 334. To throw a Lower-deck Gun overboard |
| PART VI. |
| 335. To turn Reefs out of the Topsails and Courses |
| 336. The Rudder is carried away-to fit another |
| 337. A Ship on fire at Sea |
| 338. A Ship on her beam ends |
| 339. "Wind free, all sail set, struck by a Squall" |
| 340. Struck by a Squall on a Lee Shore |
| 341. Struck by a Squall under whole Topsails and Courses |
| 342. On a wind under whole Topsails-part the weather Main Topsail brace |
| 343. The Jib Downhaul parts |
| 344. To Chase |
| 345. To Chase to Win |
| 346. Observations for a Ship to Windward that is chased |
| 347. To Chase to Leeward |
| 348. "To Windward of an enemy within pistol-shot-the weather main rigging is shot away, both ships with main Topsails to the mast" |
| 349. "Wind on the Quarter, all sail set-bring by under double-reefed Topsails" |
| 350. "Wind on the Quarter, all sail set-bring to on the other Tack under double-reefed Topsails" |
| 351. How to get the Achor off the Bows |
| 352. "Anchor head to wind, wind free" |
| 353. To Anchor on a Lee Shore |
| 354. Scudding under a Foresail-to come to an Anchor |
| 355. To make a Flying moor |
| 356. To Moor with a long scope of chain |
| 357. Blowing Fresh-in Port |
| 358. Send down Lower Yards |
| 359. To House Topmasts |
| 360. To back a Bower by a Stream |
| 361. To Sweep for an Anchor |
| 362. Preparations for leaving Harbor |
| 363. Weighing Anchor in a head Sea |
| 364. Casting or Cutting the Cable |
| 365. Clinching Cables |
| 366. Fitting Buoy-Ropes |
| 367. "Jib-Halliards, with a Whip" |
| 368. "Jib-Sheets, double" |
| 369. Wrecked in a Gale |
| 370. Setting up Rigging at Sea |
| 371. Slacking the Jib-stay in bad weather |
| 372. Stopping out Top-Gallant Yard Ropes |
| 373. Preventer Braces |
| 374. Keeping a Clear Anchor |
| 375. Anchor turning in the ground |
| 376. To tend to a weather Tide |
| 377. A Man overboard (at sea) |
| 378. Jib and Staysail Halliard Blocks at Mast-head |
| 379. To keep the Hawse clear when Moored |
| 380. To tend to Windward-single Anchor |
| 381. To tend to Leeward |
| 382. To Back Ship at Anchor |
| 383. To break the Shear |
| 384. On Getting to Sea |
| 385. On Fire Regulations in the Merchant Service |
| 386. Station Bill for fire in the Merchant Service |
| 387. Taking to the Boats |
| 388. "Losing a Rudder at a Critical Moment, &c." |
| 389. Steamers getting aground |
| 390. The duty of remaining by a damaged Vessel |
| PART VII. |
| 391. On Squaring Yards |
| 392. Up Topgallant Masts and Yards-the Mast being on deck |
| 393. Down Topgallant Masts and Yards |
| 394. "Crossing Topgallant and Royal Yards, and loosing Sails" |
| 395. Top-Mast carried away |
| 396. Clearing the Wreck of a Topmast |
| 397. Carrying away a Jib-Boom |
| 398. To fish a Lower Yard in the Shortest Time |
| 399. Expectation of losing a Lower Mast |
| 400. "Lying-to in a Gale, after the loss of Masts" |
| 401. Spars to convert in case of need |
| 402. Getting aground |
| 403. The Ballast shifting at Sea |
| 404. Vessels Surprised on Opposite Tacks |
| 405. Meeting at Sea |
| 406. A Hint on Running too |
| 407. A Hint on Rounding-to in a Gale |
| 408. On Making your Port |
| 409. Laying off and on to enter a port |
| 410. To Anchor and Veer a long Scope of Cable |
| 411. Preparations-Going into Harbor |
| 412. "Cautions a |
