Eagle Seamanship: A Manual for SquareRigger Sailing, 4 th Ed, revised by Captain Eric C. Jo nes, USCG, and LT C h ristopher D . Nolan, USCG (Naval Insti tute Press, Annapolis, 20 11 , 208pp, illus, gloss, index, ISBN 978-l-591 14-63 1-5;$25.95pb) If yo u sail in Eagle, are going to sail in Eagle, have ever made a passage in Eagle, or have the opportuni ty to visit Eagle in port, then buy th is book. In its m ost recent edition, revised by Eagle's Captain Eric Jones and his fo rmer navigator and operations officer, LT Christopher Nolan, Eagle Seamanship is chock-full of specific infor m ation about the ship's history, construction details, safety inform ation, and co mmand sequences. Every sizable ship sailing today with any sort of transitional crew and trainees has its own manual, which is highly specific to its rig configuration, style of command and operations, and safety info rmation. Few, however, are published fo r retail sale, nor wo uld they find a market beyond their own programs. Not every sh ip is the wo rld-fam ous Eagle, however, the only active square-rigged training ship in US government service. In this most recent edi tion, Captain Jones and LT Nolan have updated the info rmation so that it applies to the Eagle as she is today. In addition to technical info rmation abo ut vessel operations, the manual includes a concise and very well-wri tten history of the ship, from its beginnings as a German naval trai ning ship th rough its transfer to the US government as a war prize from WWII, to its dual role today as both a training ship fo r Coast Guard cadets and a goodwill am bassador of the United States. Readers hoping for a more traditional description of life on a square rigger or detai ls of rigging and operations in wooden square-rigged ships fro m the Age of Sail will want to revisit Alan Villiers's The Wtzy of a Ship (1953)-or any Villiers book, for that matter-and John H arland's Seamanship in the Age ofSail (1984). Both are o ut of print but easily fo und online or at most nautical used-book stores. DEIRDRE O'REGAN Cape Cod, Massachusetts SEA HISTORY 135, SUMME R 2011
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