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Vice Admiral Sir George Nares : Seamanship: Including Names of Principal Parts of a Ship;Masts, Sails, Yards, etc.; Bends and Hitches; Manufacture and Tests of Steel Wire Rope; Flexible Steel Wire Hawsers; Tests and Weights of Hemp Rope, Flexible Steel Wire Hawsers, and HCain Cable; Splicing Wire Rope; Knots and Splices; Fittings of Standing Rigging; Rigging of Masts; Yards and Bowsprit; Tests of Blocks; Fitting of Tackles; Staying Masts and Setting up Rigging; Tanks, Ballast, and Provisions; Managing Sails; Boat Sailing; Instructions on the Management of Boats in a Surf; Stowage of Anchors and Cables; Proof Tests of Anchors and Chain Cables; Hoisting in Boats; Use of Mooring Board; To Unmoor and Proceed to Sea; Maneuvres; to Tack Ship; Trimming Sails; Making and shortening Sail; Ropes and Spars Carried Away; Rule of the Road; Vessels’ Lights and Fog Signals; Glossary of sea Terms. Etc., Etc., Etc

Griffin & Co., T, The Hard, Portsmouth, 1897

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Vice-Admiral Sir George Strong Nares KCB FRS (24 April 1831–15 January 1915) was a British naval officer and Arcticexplorer. He commanded both the Challenger Expedition and the British Arctic Expedition, and was highly thought of a leader and a scientific explorer. In later life he worked for the Board of Trade and as Acting Conservator of the River Mersey, and died in 1915 aged 83.

Nares was given command of the Challenger Expedition, a recognition of his experience in this field, but also of his scientific approach to surveying and exploration. His work with William Carpenter in Shearwater had been a key factor in the choice of commanding officer.

Challenger spent a year in the Atlantic and after turning east in early 1874 she turned south in the Indian Ocean, visiting the Prince Edward,Kerguelen, and Heard islands. In the process she became the first steam vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle

Nares became the first explorer to take his ships all the way north through the channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island—now named Nares Strait in his honor—to the Lincoln Sea.

Nares was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1876, received the founder's medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1877 and was awarded the Gold medal from Société de Géographie in 1879. These scientific awards were matched by an appointment as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1876.

In 1878 he was appointed in command of Alert, his ship from the Arctic expedition, in which he surveyed the Strait of Magellan. He left the ship on 11 March 1879, and from 1879 to 1896 was employed in the harbour department of the Board of Trade. During this period he retired from the Royal Navy, on 24 April 1886. He was promoted on the retired list twice, firstly in 1887 to rear-admiral, and secondly in 1892 to vice-admiral.

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