Excerpt from Observations on Steam Tactics and Rowing-Boat Evolutions A flotilla of rowing-boats, for war purposes, can be most advantageously managed upon the same general system, as that adapted for steam ships; and most of these observations, and the signals appended to them, are common to both. The cases in which the evolutions of asteam squadron, would not be suited for boats, or in which those for boats, would not be adapted to steam ships, are obvious and very few; and a distinct code for each is, there fore, unnecessary. 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.