Practical navigation for officers of the watch / by A. Frost.
By: Frost, A [author]
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BookPublisher: Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson, 2004Description: vii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0851747078 (hardback).Subject(s): Navigation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | NavigationDDC classification: 623.89 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The aspiring Officer of the Watch can now achieve certification through NVQ or SVQ unit achievement ratified by MSA oral examination. This new publication, which replaces Practical Navigation for Second Mates and Principals and Practices of Navigation, has been extended in scope to reflect these changes.
Includes index.
Latitude and longitude. Units of distance -- The use of charts and other navigational publications -- Compasses, compass errors. Courses and bearings -- Chartwork constructions. Allowance for wind and tide -- Position lines. Position fixing by terrestrial observation -- The sailings -- Tides, tide tables and other tidal information -- Radar navigation -- The celestial sphere and the nautical almanac -- Time -- Compass error by astronomical observation -- Altitute and azimuth. Correction of altitudes -- Position lines from astronomical observations -- Latitude by meridian altitude -- Calculation of position lines from bodies out of the meridian -- Latitude by pole star.