A Cruising Companion: Ships and the Sea (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Page chapter I Seamanship and Navigation l rule OF the road. Ships meeting: ships crossing, etc. 2 navigation lights 4 charts. Signs and abbreviations used ON chabts 6 bearings 7 tides 8 tidal streams 8 currents 9 N avigational instruments 9 Compass Sounding Machines Logs Wireless Direction Finder Submarine Signals: Rangefinders Helm Indicator engine-room Telegraph. Navigational Lights. Winds and beaufort scale. Barometer: weather 22 clouds 24 douglas sea and swell scale. 25 fog scale 27 measurements AT sea 28 conversion OF knots into miles per hour 28 time 29 division OF the circle 31 ships' bells -32.

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