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The Kedge-anchor;, or,, Young sailors' assistant. : appertaining to the practical evolutions of modern seamanship, rigging, knotting, splicing, blocks, purchases, running-rigging, and other miscellaneous matters, applicable to ships of war and others. Illustrated with seventy engravings. Also, tables of rigging, spars, sails, blocks, canvass, cordage, chain and hemp cables, hawsers, &c., &c., relative to every class of vessels

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1854.
Call number: 485767
Creator: Brady, William N (-1887)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of John Haskell Kemble. Bookplate of John Haskell Kemble.
Dimensions: 23 cm
Associated people: Kemble, John Haskell, (1912-1990,); Brady, William N., (-1887,); Shaw, R. L.,
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