PREFACE. IT being now incumbent on all officers of the British Mercantile Marine to pass an Examination before the Local Marine Board, in order to test their efficiency for their respective grades, the following pages will be found to contain such portions of the Examination as are required, independent of seamanship, which can only be obtained by service at sea. In the answers to the questions in Navigation, it has been thought sufficient to give only the more prominent portions of the solution, thereby leaving the student to do something for himself, by studying the rules in the Epitome, and endeavouring to fully understand the use of the Tables, especially Logarithms. If properly and accurately worked out, the answers should not deviate in any case, more than from 5′′ to 10" from those given, such difference arising from the dip and refraction tables which the student may use. It cannot be too deeply impressed on all, that an accurate knowledge of Time is essentially requisite, without which no question in Nautical Astronomy can be correctly solved. The article on "Storms " has been written by Mr. W. R. BIRT, and will be found to contain valuable information on the subject. In the latter portion of the work will be found the instructions for Stowing Cargo, as recommended by Lloyd's. In respect to Charter-party, Bills of Lading, Bottomry |