#maritime navigation

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“ARE IN GREAT DANGER,” Daily British Whig (Kingston). December 18, 1911. Page 2. ----  A GRAVE CHARGE RE LAKE NAVIGATION. --- Government Official Says Sailors Are Careless and Endanger Lives of Passengers. ---- Montreal, Dec. 16 - "The lives of thousands of passengers are being endangered yearly, not so much by defects in our navigation laws as because these laws are not enforced. I sometimes wonder how many passengers there would be on the great lakes and on our inland waters generally if only they had the least idea of the risks they run." 

This was the statement made by Captain Charles Moller, compass adjuster and marine surveyor to the dominion government, in discussing the finding of the wreck commissioner recently relation to the stranding of the Canadian Lake Line's steam ship Coruna last summer. 

In this particular case it was stated by officers of the vessel that the vessel went aground owing to the fact that while lying at a wharf in Montreal previous to the voyage on which she stranded, she was struck , by an outgoing steamer, the -impact destroying the accuracy of  the compass.

Captain Moller stated that the.law required that a second compass be carried by all vessels. but that the law was not enforced. In his opinion owners in many cases would promptly supersede a captain who insisted on the extra expenditure. In cases where a second compass was carried it was generally stored away and never referred to, much less adjusted. 

Lookout men, according to Captain Moller, are habitually careless and seldom make reports on lights or on other matters that do not seem to them to be of much importance.'

The reason, according to Captain Moller, that the law is not enforced, is that there are too few inspectors and consequently. the Canadian system is defective and compares most unfavorably with that of the United States. 

Captain Holler intends going to Ottawa to lay the matter before the authorities.

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[whats-in-a-sentence]

For instance, no one now disputes that when Europe's great age of maritime discovery was just beginning, Chinese navigation was far more advanced and Chinese sailors already knew the coasts of India, Arabia, East Africa, and perhaps Australia.*

*Some people think Chinese sailors even reached the Americas in the fifteenth century, but as I will try to show in Chapter 8, these claims are probably fanciful. The closest thing to evidence for these imaginary voyages is a map of the world exhibited in Beijing and London in 2006, purporting to be a 1763 copy of a Chinese original drawn in 1418. The map is not only wildly different from all genuine fifteenth-century Chinese maps but is also strikingly like eighteenth-century French world maps, down to details like showing California as an island. Most likely an eighteenth-century Chinese cartographer combined fifteenth-century maps with newly available French maps. The mapmaker probably had no intention of deceiving anyone, but twenty-first-century collectors, eager for sensational discoveries, have happily deceived themselves.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

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[rhianna]

The maritime codes of Italy / translated and annotated by His Honour Judge Raikes.

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Cite thisExport citation fileMain AuthorRaikes, Francis William, 1842-1906.Language(s)English ; Italian PublishedLondon : E. Wilson, 1900. SubjectsMaritime law >  Maritime law / Italy. NoteIncludes index. Physical Descriptionxii, 264 p. ; 22 cm.

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[micledtony]

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[croziers-compass]

I am always deeply in love with a man that loves to run experiments.

"A year later, in September 1839, Ross took command of HMS Terror and Erebus and commenced a four-year expedition to the Antarctic. Ross and Terror's captain, Francis Crozier, performed magnetic experiments as they sailed down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean, setting up magnetic observatories at St Helena, Cape Town and Hobart. These would, initially, be sites of scientific activity quite distinct from existing colonial astronomical observatories but, within a few years, the Cape's magnetic and astronomical observatories would merge together into a single research institution. Although disappointed to find that the South Magnetic Pole was far inland, Ross went on to determine its approximate location in 1841 and returned to Britain in 1843 with a wealth of magnetic data."

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[dougielombax]

I FUCKING LOVE LIGHTHOUSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[unbecoming-kiley]

Johann Michael Vogler, Universal equinoctial dial for latitudes 0°-90° North, early 18th century. Brass. Ellingen, Germany. Via National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.

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[fawnonthelam]

#Practical navigator #sextant #celestial navigation #maritime #sailing #Youtube

[rymeofthemodernmariner]

For the night is dark and full of terrors

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[francepittoresque]

27 septembre 1748 : ordonnance de Louis XV abolissant l’institution des galères ➽ https://bit.ly/2MPS59d On avait fini par trouver que ce genre de bâtiments, en usage pendant l’enfance de la navigation, était incommode dans ses distributions, fort coûteux, de ressource presque nulle pour la guerre

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[uamariner]

#156 Colreg card. Ship's navigation daytime shapes and action to avoid c...

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[martamedanich1966blog]

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[shawshaw47]

What is Sextant?

In the past, people would hold a sextant in their hands to determine the angle that the horizon formed with respect to the sun, moon, or stars. Prior to the development of contemporary navigation systems such as GPS, it was a crucial instrument for ships to determine their latitude and chart their voyage over the seas.

An eyepiece, horizon glass, and a moveable arm make up the sextant. The user would use the movable arm to align the image of the celestial object with the horizon after sighting it through the horizon glass. The instrument's scale may then be used to read the object's angle with respect to the horizon.

With this angle measured and the time in hand, navigators could use celestial navigation methods and tables provided in books to determine their latitude. Even in the middle of the enormous oceans, before satellite navigation became accessible, sextants allowed sailors to precisely map their position and route by measuring the ship's speed and direction.

Although sextants are no longer used for marine navigation, they are still employed for some specialized tasks such as surveying, astronomy, and training in celestial navigation. During the Age of Sail and Discovery, they allowed for precise transoceanic sailing and exploration, which is a significant historical accomplishment.

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