References
- A recent rather unkind book review says: ‘For all Mr Jordan's technical knowledge of seamanship, the novel suffers somewhat from its author's inadequate literary skill.’
- Blue This book is remarkable for making use of the 1799 arrangement of the naval numeral flags, although these had been shuffled and reshuffled in 1803 and 1808. The plate of flags is engraved and painted by hand. The legend for No. 4 is ‘Yellow Border’; for No. 5, ‘Quartered Red & White’, though it is painted white and red
- 1934 . 218 See The Mariner's Mirror, April
- This design is bad, as it resembles most closely the rectangular Preparative of the naval range
- M.M. See XXIII, 502, 503