Hand-book to the Local marine board examination [by J. Taylor].1860 |
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2nd cor apparent course assumed latitude astronomical axis line azimuth barometer bearing bill of lading boilers Bottomry Cape cargo centre Certificates of Competency charter-party Chief Mate chro chronometer Circle Sailing collision compass condenser course and distance cyclone cylinder dead reckoning diff direction double altitudes dunnage engine Extra Examination eye 19 feet eye 20 feet feet required foggy weather Foreign-going Ships freight is due gale Greenwich hauling Home Trade Passenger hurricane index error Janet Taylor Light Vessel logarithms logs longitude by chronometer Marine Board Masters and Mates Mercator's miles Nautical northern hemisphere observed altitude observed meridian altitude P.M. at ship parallel sailing pass Q.-Explain recurving required the latitude required the longitude required the true required the variation rule Seamanship Second Mate set and drift sextant ship's starboard starboard tack stowed Sumner's method sun's Trade Passenger Ship true latitude tude valves voyage W.S.W. course
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Page 43 - On the starboard side a green light so constructed as to show an uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam...
Page 70 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 44 - ... to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least 2 miles.
Page 14 - The characteristic of the logarithm of a number greater than unity is one less than the number of figures in the integral part of the number.
Page 23 - Astronomers, with a view of obtaining a convenient and uniform measure of time, have recourse to a mean solar day, the length of which is equal to the mean or average of all the apparent solar days in a year. An imaginary Sun, called the mean Sun...
Page 43 - Sidelights" means a green light on the starboard side and a red light on the port side...
Page 48 - ... unless the circumstances of the case are such as to render a departure from the rule necessary in order to avoid immediate danger, and subject also to the proviso that due regard shall be had to the dangers of navigation, and, as regards sailing ships on the starboard tack close-hauled, to the keeping such ships under command.
Page 43 - ... the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on the port side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least 2 miles. (d) The said green and red side-lights shall be fitted with inboard screens projecting at least 3 feet forward from the light, so as to prevent these lights from being seen across the bow.
Page 23 - Day are the same in this Method as in the civil Account at Noon, and from Noon till Midnight; but from Midnight till Noon they differ; for...
Page 46 - ... unless it is shown to the satisfaction of the Court that the circumstances of the case made a departure from the Regulations necessary.