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Shewing and ExplainingThe Words and Terms of Art belonging tothe Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building,Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea.
Also
All Species that are received into the Magazines,and on what Services they are Used and Issued.
Together with
The Titles of all the Inferior Officers belonging to a Ship,with an Abridgment of their respective Duties.
By Thomas Riley Blanckley.
London Printed by E. Owen, in Warwick Lane, andEngraved by Paul Fourdrinier at Charing Cross.
MDCCL.
To the Right Honourable the LordsCommissioners for Executing the Office ofLord High Admiral of Great Britain andIreland, and of all His Majesty's Plantations,&c.
As the following Sheets have been publishedby your Lordships Approbation,they are, with the greatest Submissionand Gratitude, dedicated to your Lordships,
By,
My Lords,
Your Lordships
Most Obedient,
Most Dutiful,
and
Most Humble Servant,
Thomas Riley Blanckley.