Excerpt from Manual for Officers Serving on Board U. S. Cruising Training Ships: 1899 Sir: In obedience to Bureau's letter of March 22, 1899, the fol lowing report is respectfully submitted, giving the results of my experience while in command of the training ship Annapolis and the methods followed in training apprentices during two winter cruises in the West Indies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.