Close to the wind : the Beaufort scale / Peter Malone.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Putnams, c2007.Description: [40] p. : col. ill., col. map ; 24 x 28 cmISBN:- 0399243992
- 551.51/80287 22
- QC931.4 .M35 2007
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Unknown | Beverly Middle School | 551.51 MAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 703403 |
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Describes Francis Beaufort's creation of the Beaufort wind force scale in 1810; presents fictional diary entries by a twelve-year-old nineteenth-century midshipman that describe conditions aboard ship at each of the scale's twelve levels; and includes facts on the construction of a man-of-war and the daily lives of English sailors.
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