Author: KERR, J. LENNOX.
Title: The Young Steamship Officer.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 308; numerous b/w illustrations; Key to Admiralty Charts complete explanations of signs and abbreviations, dictionary of Sea Terms and the Index to the Book; title in gilt on spine with small gilt illustration; a good copy. London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, circa 1937. First chapter about who might have been the first sailor in Britain wonderfully written. With many illustrations in colour, half-tone and line by Joan Birch and others.

Keywords: maritime ships seamanship steamers knots hitches