AND

J. D. POTTER, 31, POULTRY, AND 11, KING STREET,

TOWER HILL.

LONDON:

WALTER SPIERS, PRINTER, GREAT PRESCOT STREET.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME FOR 1858.

ENLARGED SERIES.

Aden, 428

Admiralty Notices respecting Lights and Fog Signals to be Carried
and Used by Sea-going Vessels to prevent Collision, 203

A Farewell Word with the Atlantic Cable, 296

A Lighthouse Tour of Lake Superior, 1, 82, 148

Another Wreck on the Pratas, 608

Are the Goodwin Sands Magnetic? 94

Atlantic Islands, 473

Atmospheric Influence on Chronometers, 383

A Tour among the Tahiti Islands, in H.M.S. "Vixen, 655
A Visit to Luzon and Alabat,-Philippine Islands, 570

Bass Strait, Dangers of Curtis Island, Clarendon Rock, 331

Battle of Kudjwa, 100

Bonifacio Strait and its Dangers, 211

Bottle Paper, 221, 380

Burning of the "Sarah Sands," Screw Transport Steamer, 103

Cape Comorin, 592

Cape Injeh,-Black Sea: Magnetic Effects, 269

Capture of Canton, 161

Cases of Emergency at Sea,-a Man Overboard-Icebergs-Fire,

442

Cay West and Florida Wreckers, 235

Chronometer Routine-in Supplying Her Majesty's Ships, 349

Chronometers and their Makers in England and France, 133

Chinese Pirates, 676

Clearing the Lunar Distance, 97, 201

Cochin China, 649

Cronstadt,-Leading Lights, 109

Dangers on the N.W. Coast of Borneo and Palawan Passage, China

Sea, 212

Description of the Amoor River, with Particular Considerations Hy-

drographical and Ethnographical, 573, 629

Destruction by Fire of the Ship " Eastern City," 672

French Survey of the Coast of Italy, 214

Godrevy Light, 207

Hakodadi, 179

Hints for Manning the Navy, 255

H.M.S. "Shannon," Struck by Lightning, 155

Lady Passengers and the Ship's Compass, 275

Lake Baikal, 591

Lighthouses and Lighthouse Boards, 34

Lightning in the Pacific: Efficacy of Harris's Conductors, 329

Loss of the Barque "Mahaica," 57, 123

Loss of the Steamer "Central America," 39

Magellan Strait and its Spanish Settlement in July, 1857, 544

Maritime Official Inquiry,-Loss of the Ship "Lady Kennaway," 166 .

Meeting of Shipmasters at Kooria Mooria Islands, 222

Mercantile Marine Service Association, 271

Meteorology for Seamen, 609

Nautical Notices, 52, 107, 165, 208, 269, 330, 381, 436, 555, 612,

A Treatise on the Law relating to Sea Lights and the Rules of

the Road at Sea, &c. By F. T. Pratt, D.C.L., 388

A Two Years' Trip off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands,

Patagonia, and in the River Plate, &c. By W. Parker Snow,

384

Elementary Treatise on Sails and Sail-Making.

Kipping, 223

Iron Shipbuilding. By J. Grantham, C. E., 224

By Robert

My First Voyage:-a Book for Youth. By William Stones, 385

Sea Drift. By Rear-Admiral Hercules Robinson, 387

Ships and Gales. Harbours of Refuge, 276

The North-West Passage and the Plans for the Search for Sir

John Franklin. By John Brown, F.R.G.S., &c., 386

The Storm Compass-in a Spanish Garb, 387

Tide Tables for the English and Irish Ports, for 1859, 686

Notices to Ships bound to Manila, 53

Notices to Vessels bound to Havre, 438

Observations on Taïwan or Formosa, 561

On a New Form of Lind's Anemometer, 113, 208

On Manning the Royal Navy, 362, 461, 546

On the Advantages of Using the Paumban Pass, 23

On the Conveyance of Troops to India, 12