Posted by Woll on November 04, 2009 at 07:23:33 user Woll.
In Reply to: Re: literary allusions posted by elizabeth on November 03, 2009 at 00:20:48:
I always assumed that the seaman's book was this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seamans-Pocket-book-June-Commissioners-Admiralty/dp/184486037X
which has recently been republished in reproduction form.
Or this:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pbtyc/B_S_M/Contents.html
A search also brought up this (which is for the US Navy, so maybe not what AR was thinking of):
http://bluejacketsmanual.com/file-RHB/recruithandybook.htm
which says that "The Recruits Handybook" was republished as "The Seaman's Hand Book" in 1921.
Woll