Excerpt from Nautical Terms in English and French and French and English: With Notes and Tables IN this new edition, which is considerably larger than the preceding Ones, the object constantly kept in view has not been so much to give a complete Vocabulary of all Nautical Terms as to make an essentially modern book. To attain this desirable end, great prominence has been given to words having reference to modern ship - building, gunnery, torpedoes, etc., etc., whilst a goodly number Of now almost obsolete words have been purposely omitted. Nevertheless, it must not be understood from this that the old sea language has been completely expunged for whilst it has been remembered that the Nautical vocabulary has greatly altered during the last forty or fifty years, it has not been forgotten either that Old expressions are still much used, and will continue to be so, as long as sailing vessels are not a thing Of the past. Although the chief aim has been to make a book suited to the special wants of Naval officers, the claims of the Merchant Navy have not been forgotten, as will be seen from the insertion of commercial and maritime law terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.