Lever, Darcy, 1760?-1837

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Name (Latin)
Lever, Darcy, 1760?-1837
Date of birth
1759
Date of death
1837
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 67841403
Wikidata: Q5222378
Library of congress: n 83125724
HAI10: 000667205
Sources of Information
  • His The young sea officer's sheet anchor, or, A key to the leading of rigging, and to practical seamanship, 1955:t.p. (Darcy Lever, Esq.)
  • LC data base, 7-14-83(hdg.: Lever, Darcy, 1760?-1837)

Wikipedia description:

Darcy Lever (c. 1759 – 1839) was a nineteenth-century British writer and expert in seamanship, most well known for his work The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship. The book, first published in 1808 with a second edition in 1819, became the standard authority on traditional rigging and seamanship throughout the century.

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