Front matter

Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.

New original cover art included with this eBook is granted to the public domain.

U. S. Frigate United States, under full sail.

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, APPLI- CABLE 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.

BY WILLIAM BRADY, SAILING MASTER, U. S. N.

SIXTH EDITION. IMPROVED AND ENLARGED, WITH ADDITIONAL MATTER, PLATES, AND TABLES.

NEW YORK: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. SOLD AT R. L. SHAW’S NAUTICAL STORE, NO. 222 WATER ST., AND THE PRINCIPAL NAUTICAL AND STATIONERS’ STORES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.

1852.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1847. By WILLIAM BRADY, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York

DEDICATED TO THE UNITED STATES’ NAVY AND MERCHANT SERVICE.