Front matter
Reading edition
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AN UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF THE MARINE: OR, A COPIOUS EXPLANATION OF THE TECHNICAL TERMS and PHRASES EMPLOYED IN THE Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations OF A SHIP. ILLUSTRATED WITH Variety of Original DESIGNS of SHIPPING, in different Situations; Together with separate Views of their Masts, Sails, Yards, and Rigging. To which is annexed, A Translation of the French Sea-Terms and Phrases, collected from the Works of Mess. Du Hamel, Aubin, Saverien, &c.
By WILLIAM FALCONER,
Author of The Shipwreck.
LONDON:
Printed for T. Cadell (Successor to Mr. Millar) in the Strand.
MDCCLXIX.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
The LORDS COMMISSIONERS
FOR EXECUTING THE OFFICE OF
LORD HIGH ADMIRAL
OF
GREAT BRITAIN, &c.
THIS WORK
IS,
By their LORDSHIPS’ Permission,
WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT,
INSCRIBED,
BY
The Author.
