@article{640460,
      recid = {640460},
      author = {Park, Robert.},
      title = {Defensive war by sea. In five parts. I. Shewing how to  prepare a ship for a close fight, by ordering their  bulk-heads, leaves, coamings, lookholes, in rouls, false  ports, portcullesses, &c. and taking the running  rigging into the close quarters. II. An epitomy of the art  of gunnery; shewing how to find the defects of cannon, what  quantity of powder a gun requires, true or false bored, and  to find the dispart of a gun true or false bored, and to  prepare powder-chests, powder tubs, &c. III. Chasing;  where the advantages to be taken by the chase are  considered, under all prositions, in respect to the wind  and tide. IV. Desentive fighting; shewing how  merchant-ships, whether single or in fleets, are to act,  when cannonaded or boarded by an enemy, and how to anchor  under the protection of their convoy. V. Fortifying ships  in a harbour, shewing how to erect batteries upon the land;  the advantages of moaring, in respect to the wind and tide,  considered: how to lay booms in strait or crooked rivers;  and what maxims are to be observed by commanders, before  they moar their ships. By Robert park of Ipswich, mariner.  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Printed, and are to be sold by Rich. Moum and Tho. Page,  on Tower-hill,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {[14],240p.,plates :},
      year = {1704},
      note = {Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford).},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/640460},
}