A guide book to the Local marine board examination. The ordinary examination. [With] The requisite elements from the Nautical almanac for 1865, for the exercises in Ainsley's Guide book |
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... direction of the ship's track ; the Log , which with the help of sand - glasses for measuring small intervals of time , gives the velocity or the rate of sailing , and thence the distance run in any interval , and also a Chart of ...
... direction of the ship's track ; the Log , which with the help of sand - glasses for measuring small intervals of time , gives the velocity or the rate of sailing , and thence the distance run in any interval , and also a Chart of ...
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... direction they have returned to it in an easterly direction . 3rd . When we travel a considerable distance from north to south , a number of new stars appear , successively , in the heavens , in the quarter to which we are advancing ...
... direction they have returned to it in an easterly direction . 3rd . When we travel a considerable distance from north to south , a number of new stars appear , successively , in the heavens , in the quarter to which we are advancing ...
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... direction of this rotation is from west to east , thus causing all the heavenly bodies to have an apparent motion from east to west . N W A ' M " E S T H M ' U V W X Y b B ' N E POLES . S The extremities of the axis of the earth about ...
... direction of this rotation is from west to east , thus causing all the heavenly bodies to have an apparent motion from east to west . N W A ' M " E S T H M ' U V W X Y b B ' N E POLES . S The extremities of the axis of the earth about ...
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... direction is called south , marked S. Directions at right angles to the meridians are called east and west ; the right hand looking to the north east , the left hand west : they are marked E. and W. Every meridian line may be said ...
... direction is called south , marked S. Directions at right angles to the meridians are called east and west ; the right hand looking to the north east , the left hand west : they are marked E. and W. Every meridian line may be said ...
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... direction . This is also called her " northing " southing , " , " these names being indicated by the initials N. and S. MERIDIONAL PARTS . - At the equator a degree of longitude is equal to a degree of latitude , but as we approach the ...
... direction . This is also called her " northing " southing , " , " these names being indicated by the initials N. and S. MERIDIONAL PARTS . - At the equator a degree of longitude is equal to a degree of latitude , but as we approach the ...
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A.M. at ship acct altitude sun's L.L. anchor bearing by compass charter-party chronometer column common logarithms compass course cosec cosine course and distance cyphers daily decimal point decl declination deviation difference of latitude difference of longitude dunnage East equator error EXAMINATION EXAMPLES FOR PRACTICE eye 18 feet fast fathoms fixed light Flags given Green Greenwich date Greenwich mean haul height of eye helm high water hour-angle Hourly diff index corr index correction June leeway London Bridge longitude by chronometer mantissa master miles minutes Multiply Nautical Almanac Norie North observed altitude sun's observed meridian altitude P.M. tides parallel sailing Polar dist port Raper required the latitude Rule sail secant Semi-diameter semid set by compass sextant side Signal sine South starboard subtract True altitude true azimuth true course Variation 2 points vessel West wind yard
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