The Seaman's Friend: A Treatise on Practical Seamanship Book

A lot of interesting information about the evolution of naval fire control during the big gun era including practical results from WWI and WWII Would have liked to have seen more information about the design of the guns as well rather than the short chapter at the end. This book could have been a lot better. Writing is more like a stream of consciousness. Good writing and proper editing would make this a better book. Illustrations are incomplete and hard to follow in many cases. Critical features of warship fire control system in photos should have been identified with leaders and captions rather than a long fine print caption. Similarly the description for fire control analog computers is difficult to follow. A flow chart showing how information came into these mechanical analog computers, was processed and then output would greatly clarify the text as well as the illustrations. Worth reading if you are interested in electro mechanical analog computer and or naval history. Rather expensive for what it is though