A naval encyclopædia
Subtitle: comprising a dictionary of nautical words and phrases; biographical notices, and records of naval officers; special articles of naval art and science
By: written expressly for this work by officers and others of recognized authority in the branches treated by them. Together with descriptions of the principal naval stations and seaports of the world. Complete in one volume
Publisher: L.R. Hamersly & Co.
Published: 1881
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1017
Subjects: United States. Navy -- Biography.; Naval art and science -- Dictionaries.
Genres: Dictionaries.
Notes: "Records of living officers of the navy to July 1, 1880": p. 875-1017.

"List of principal works consulted": p. iv.