<<The>> sea-Gunners companion, or practical rules, explaining the use of ordnance and other stores in sea-service. With Directions for Gunners, &c. how to govern themselves; and for their better Instruction is given an Exercise proper to be understood by all Officers for Instructing of Seamen. And also Advice for fitting of Fire-Ships, with the Ingredients proper for them. An Appendix, shewing how to give an Inventory of Stores necessary for a Train of Artillery of 10 Guns, and the Gunners Duty in general. By Capt. Francis Povey, formerly an Officer at Tangier, and since Surveyor and Comptroler of the Ordnance in Ireland.
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printed for Richard Mount, at the Postern on Tower-Hill,
1702.
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The sea-gunner shewing the practical part of gunnery as it is used at sea : and, as an introduction thereto, there is exhibited two compendiums, one of vulgar, the other of decimal arithmetick, with necessary tables relating to that art : to which is added an appendix, shewing the use of a proportional scale gunnery, and the use off the sea-gunners rule