Seaman's Assistant, The: Coaster's and Fisherman's Guide, and Master's and Mate's Manual: Laws of the Sea. Including the Passenger Laws of 1819, '47, '48 and '49
by Butts, Isaac Ridler
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- Hardcover
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Boston, MA: I.R. Butts, No. 2 School Street, 1849. 11 x 18 cm. Butts (1795-1882) published a whole mass of guidance for Sailors, Seamen and Fishermen. This Seaman's Assistant provides guidance for Rights of Merchant Seamen, including hiring, when they may desert, right to salvage, wages (including tables) and punishment. ""...a master might be excused for knocking a seaman down, under the influence of sudden passion, from provocation by language of gross insolence.....(further) kicking and beating the fallen seaman ...would not be justified."" ""The master is not justified in stripping a seaman naked, and inflicting a severe punishment with a cat; at least not for ordinary violation of the ship's discipline."" Also included are Coaster's Guide, Fisherman's Guide, including Bounty in Cod Fisheries, Mackerel Fishery, Pickled Fish; Shipmaster's Manual, Passenger Vessels (Act of 1847); In Appendix is Navy Ration for victualling, which stipulates 4 lbs. of beef per week per man, 3 lbs. pork, 1 lb. flour, 1/2 lb. raisins or dried fruit, and 1 3/4 pints of spirits. Also guidance for Common Carriers, Marine Insurance and Book-keeping. Paper on board with cloth tape spine, parts of cloth tape on spine missing, inside back hinge cracked, pencil inscriptions on back pastedown and back endpaper. Fair. . Catalogs: Nautical.
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- Title
- Seaman's Assistant, The: Coaster's and Fisherman's Guide, and Master's and Mate's Manual: Laws of the Sea. Including the Passenger Laws of 1819, '47, '48 and '49
- Author
- Butts, Isaac Ridler
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- I.R. Butts, No. 2 School Street
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 1849
- Pages
- 120 pp
- Size
- 11 x 18 cm
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nautical;
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