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100 1 _aBrady, William N.,
_d-1887
245 1 4 _aThe kedge-anchor
250 _aSixth edition.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2026-01-18
508 _aChris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"The kedge-anchor" by William N. Brady is a nautical manual written in the mid-19th century. Aimed at young sailors and junior officers, it teaches practical seamanship for naval and merchant service, covering ropework, rigging, sails, anchors, ship-handling, emergencies, and onboard routines. Illustrated plates and extensive tables support its step-by-step, hands-on instruction. The opening of this manual sets its purpose and audience with a concise preface, a dedication to the U.S. Navy and Merchant Service, and pages of endorsements from naval officers, followed by an exhaustive table of contents. It then launches Part I with tightly sequenced, illustrated directions for fundamental ropework: knots (overhand, figure-eight, bowline, bends), hitches, splices (short, long, eye, cut), seizings, worming and serving, mats, gaskets, and specialty eyes, plus identification and use of blocks, deadeyes, hearts, straps, purchases, and buoy gear. Part II begins with procedures for launching a ship and immediate post-launch control (hawsers, anchors, veering), then moves into measuring, serving, and cutting standing rigging and shrouds in the loft, and proceeds to topmast and topgallant rigging—always in numbered, practical steps with notes on best practice. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: William Brady (Author), 1847
653 _aNavigation
653 _aUnited States. Navy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
653 _aSeamanship -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/kedgeanchor00brad/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77729
999 _c118449
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