Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 07, 2003 at 09:37:03 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: English Reef Points? posted by Alex Forbes on August 07, 2003 at 01:00:30:
Commander Walker might, just, have been aboard one of the ten gun brigs that the RN were still using as training ships at the end of the nineteenth century - I am not wholly sure when these were given over - but if he was, the ship would surely have been absolutely crammed with marlinespike seamanship!
A copy of the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship for Commander Walker's era might be "looked out for" in secondhand bookshops...