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Lot of 4 items. Barnes, James, editor and compiler. Ships and Sailors, being a Collection of Songs of the Sea as Sung by the Men who Sail it. With Numerous Illustrations in Colour and Black-and-White by Rufus F. Zogbaum. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1898. Obl. folio, printed paper over beveled boards, cloth spine, 124pp. 12 color plates, 4 black-and-white plates plus additional illustrations in text. Includes music and lyrics for many sea songs and chanties. Surface soil and handling wear on boards, internally clean. 8.25 x 13.5 in. ledger with marbled paper boards, cloth spine. Printed label on front “United States Training Ship “Enterprise” / Cadets Log Book.” First page indicates this cruise is from Boston, MA, commanded by Commander E.D. [Edward David] Taussig, USN, kept by Ellery C. Rich. Book manufactured by F.W. Barry, Beale & Co., Stationers and Printers, Boston. Records of cruise from 14 June 1902 to 30 Sept. 1902, Boston, MA to Queenston, Ireland to Southampton (stayed 9 days), thence to Havre, France, then Gibraltar (stayed 2 days), to Tangiers, Africa then Funchal, Madeira (stayed 8.5 days) and back to Marblehead, MA. 8.5 x 14 in. ledger, plain leaves. He has sewn black cloth over the original covers (some leather showing in one corner, probably originally 3/4 leather binding). Front pastedown (which has come “unglued” from the board) indicates that this is also for the USS Enterprise, and the class graduating in Oct. 1903 consists of Valentine Woodbury, Ellery Rich (the author), Herman Lowe, Harold Thompson, Robert Powers, and Harry Fernald. The very next item on the pastedown are instructions on what to do if someone goes overboard. Good priority. This log contains school notes on navigation, sailing, etc. Some is manuscript, about half is composed of mimeographed sheets glued into the ledger. Also includes his notes and calculations for the cruise – where he derived the numbers recorded in the other ledger. After returning at the end of September, there is a gap in the ledger, then at the end there is a long poem, charts of moon position, several more mimeographed sheets (16pp) on determining latitude and longitude. Loose material in front includes a Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic for April 1899, approx. 24 x 34 in., a couple of postcards, advertising pamphlet for a bookstore in Southampton that specialized in nautical, engineering and technical books, and affixed to ffep, “Rules to Prevent Collisions of Vessels” issued by the Treasury Department, Bureau of Navigation, Washington, DC, June 12, 1897. Another supplemental piece is the American Nautical Almanac for 1903, Washington: Bureau of Equipment, 1902, in printed paper wraps , 7 x 10 in., an abridgment of The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. The paperback edition here is likely a much more portable reference that still contains what is needed for ocean navigation than the full hardback edition. The USS Enterprise (obviously, not the starship) was launched in June 1874 at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, and commissioned in March 1877. She was decommissioned several times for repairs or updates. She was engaged in a three-year hydrographic survey from early 1883 to 1886, then served as training ship for the US Naval Academy for a year, Sept. 1891-1892. In October 1892 she was lent to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a training vessel for the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, serving in that capacity until May 1909, when she was returned to the Navy and decommissioned for the final time. She was sold in October of that year. Commander Edward David Taussig (1847-1921) commanded her as a training vessel only for this one cruise when he was assigned to the Boston Navy Yard. He later commanded other training vessels. Born in St. Louis, far from the sea, Taussig was accepted to Annapolis during the Civil War (1863), graduating in 1867. He spent the next three decades on many vessels (Narragansett, Relief, Juniata, Monongahela, Trento