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141 - 'SAILING AND FIGHTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET' [BEFORE 1783]
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'SAILING AND FIGHTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET' [BEFORE 1783] 34 pp. plus final blank leaf, folio, marbled paper wrappers includes: "Signals by Day"; "Signals by Night"; "Instructions for Sailing in a Fog"; "Instructions to be Observed by Younger Captains to the Elder"; "Signals for Calling the Flag-Officers... on Board the Admiral"; "Instructions to be Observed by all Masters, Pilots, Ketches, Hoys and Smacks, Attending the Fleet"; "Fighting Instructions"; "Encouragement for the Captains and Companies of Fire-Ships, Small Frigats, and Ketches"; "Instructions for the Fireships"; and "Additional Signals ... of the Sailing Instructions by Day." -- 13¼ x 9in. (33.6 x 22.8cm) Provenance: Estate of the Late Clive Richards CBE. These fighting instructions were first issued by Admiral Rooke in 1703 and were essentially unchanged until 1783 when Lord Howe extensively revised them. light spotting, browning and offsetting, spine worn
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