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9TH Edition Bluejacket's Manual 1939

Author(s):  None listed
Cover:  Black hardcover with Gold lettering w/round corners
 THE BLUEJACKETS' MANUAL - 1939
Copyright Date:  1938, 1939 by U. S. Naval Institute
Printing Date: known printings for this edition:
 1st printing, March, 1938  square corner
 2nd printing, May, 1938  ? corner
 3rd printing, June-August, 1938  round corner
 4th printing, March, 1939  round corner
printing code and location:
 Dates listed, 2nd , 3rd & 4th printing only, bottom center title page back - 3rd photo
 Even though this is a new edition, this is 4th printing w/corrections, March, 1939
Title Page: front: - 2nd photo
 THE - BLUEJACKET'S MANUAL  -  UNITED STATES NAVY
 1939 - NINTH  EDITION  - FIRST PRINTING, MARCH, 1938  -  REVISED  MARCH,  1939
 UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE  -  ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND - 1939

back: - 3rd photo
 COPYRIGHT  1938, 1939  -  BY  -  U.  S.  NAVAL  INSTITUTE  -  ANNAPOLIS,  MARYLAND
  First  printing,   March,  1938.  Second  printing,  May,  1938  -  Third  printing,  August,  1938
  Fourth  printing,  with corrections,  March,  1939
Number of Pages:  834 pages including a table of contents, color plate appendix and no index
Number of Chapters:  60 chapters in 7 parts & 6 color plate appendix - 4th photo  table-of-contents
Preface/Forward:  Forward to the Ninth Edition by Capt G. V. Stewart, U.S.N. - 4th photo
Introduction:  Introduction by William D. Leahy - 4th photo
Construction:  Thin, fabric covered, semi-hard cover, standard book form
Text on Spine:  THE - BLUEJACKETS' - MANUAL - 1939  UNITED STATES - NAVAL INSTITUTE - ANNAPOLIS, MD
Size:  7½" x 5¼" x 1½"
Remarks:  Round corners on both cover and pages.
Price:  None listed
Publisher:  United States Naval Institute, Annapolis, MD.
Printer:  None listed

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Chapters & Table-of-Contents
This is the same Table of Contents and Chapter structure as in the 1938 early manuals.

FULL COLOR PLATE APPENDIX
These plates follow the Table-of-Contents and precede the chapters.
Plate I. Flags of Principal Maritime Nations
Plate II. Flags of Principal Maritime Nations
Plate III. Distinctive Flags and Pennants
Plate IV. Flag and Dot-and-Dash Alphabet
Plate V. Numeral Flags and Pennants
Plate VI. Special Flags and Pennants
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
PART ONE
FOR THE RECRUIT
 
01.  The Navy as a Career
02.  Clothing
03.  General Information
04.  Rules and Regulations
05.  Rules and Regulations (continued)
06.  School of the Recruit
07.  Manual of Arms
08.  School of the Squad
09.  School of the Platoon
10.  Boats under Oars
11.  To Pull an Oar Nomenclature
12.  Knots and Splices,
13.  The Compass
14.  Visual Signaling
15.  How to Swim
16.  What the Navy Offers
17.  Reporting for Duty aboard Ship
PART TWO
THE SUBJECTS WHICH EVERY MAN ON BOARD SHIP SHOULD KNOW
   
18. (A) Discipline and Duty
19. (B) What the Service Offers
20. (C) Enlistments, Discharges, Courts-Martial
21. (D) Pay and Accounts
22. (E)  Naval Customs.  Naval Organization
23. (F) General Characteristics of the Ship
24. (G) General Features of Ships of the Navy
25. (H) Events in the Daily Routine.
26. (I) Aim and Objective of all General Drills
27. (J) Regulations in Regard to Uniform and Clothing
28. (K) Personal Hygiene and First Aid
29. (L) Painting and the Preparation of the Surface Therefor
30. (M) Swimming; Life-saving; Resuscitation; Life Buoys
31. (N) Athletics
PART THREE
RUDIMENTARY SEAMANSHIP AND GUNNERY
 
32.  Boats; types
33.  Sails and Sailing
34.  Marlinspike Seamanship
35.  Duties of Seaman Watches, Under Way and at Anchor
36.  Deck Seamanship
37.  Ground Tackle
38.  Steering and Sounding
39.  Electricity
40.  Carrying the Automatic Rifle and Submachine Gun
41.  Artillery: General rules, School of the Platoon.  How to Sling and Unsling Arms.  Landing the 3-inch Landing Gun.
42.  Small Arms
43.  Elementary Gunnery
44.  Navy Signal Systems
PART FOUR
ADVANCED SEAMANSHIP AND GUNNERY
 
45.  Advanced Seamanship and Gunnery
46.  A Section, A Watch at Sea  C. & R. Soundings
47.  Marlinspike Seamanship
48.  Deck Seamanship
49.  Instructing, Messes, Precedence
50.  Ground Tackle
51.  Artillery:   75-mm.  Pack Howitzer
52.  Small Arms: Detail of Individual and Collective Firing
53.  Signals:, Boat and Ship
PART FIVE
PHYSICAL DRILLS
 
54.  Physical Drills without Arms
55.  Physical Drills with Arms
PART SIX
LANDING FORCE
 
56.  Equipment Carried by Each Man; Haversack, Pack Rations;  Assembling Equipment
57.  Extended Order
PART SEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS
 
58.  Miscellaneous
59.  Gas Protective Apparatus
60.  The Use of Boatswain's Call

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