Celestial navigation is an essential tool for those who do not wish to be caught short when modern technology fails. The basic process is simple - take a sight with a sextant, establish a secondary reference or benchmark sight, compare the two sights and plot the result of the comparison on a chart. Schlereth demonstrates how to take sight by the sun, moon, stars and planets, discussing the advantages of each method. The reader is taken through several examples and situational illustrations.

A textbook that offers a unified treatment of the applications of hydrodynamics to marine problems. The applications of hydrodynamics to naval architecture and marine engineering expanded dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s. This classic textbook, originally published in 1977, filled the need for a single volume on the applications of hydrodynamics to marine problems. The book is solidly based on fundamentals, but it also guides the student to an understanding of engineering applications through its consideration of realistic configurations. The book takes a balanced approach between theory and empirics, providing the necessary theoretical background for an intelligent evaluation and application of empirical procedures. It also serves as an introduction to more specialized research methods. It unifies the seemingly diverse problems of marine hydrodynamics by examining them not as separate problems but as related applications of the general field of hydrodynamics. The book evolved from a first-year graduate course in MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering. A knowledge of advanced calculus is assumed. Students will find a previous introductory course in fluid dynamics helpful, but the book presents the necessary fundamentals in a self-contained manner. The 40th anniversary of this pioneering book offers a foreword by John Grue. Contents Model Testing * The Motion of a Viscous Fluid * The Motion of an Ideal Fluid * Lifting Surfaces * Waves and Wave Effects * Hydrodynamics of Slender Bodies

Ancient Ocean Crossings paints a compelling picture of impressive pre-Columbian cultures and Old World civilizations that, contrary to many prevailing notions, were not isolated from one another, evolving independently, each in its own hemisphere. Instead, they constituted a "global ecumene," involving a complex pattern of intermittent but numerous and profoundly consequential contacts. In Ancient Ocean Crossings: Reconsidering the Case for Contacts with the Pre-Columbian Americas, Stephen Jett encourages readers to reevaluate the common belief that there was no significant contact between the emerging civilizations of Eurasia and Africa and peoples who occupied the terra incognita beyond the great oceans. More than a hundred centuries separate the time that Ice Age hunters are conventionally thought to have crossed a land bridge from Asia into North America and the arrival of Columbus in the Bahamas in 1492. Traditional belief has long held that earth's two hemispheres were essentially cut off from one another as a result of the post-Pleistocene meltwater-fed rising oceans. These oceans, along with deserts and mountains, formed impermeable barriers to interhemispheric communication. This viewpoint implies that the cultures of the Old World and those of the Americas developed independently. Drawing on abundant evidence to support his theory for significant pre-Columbian contacts, Jett suggests that many ancient peoples had both the seafaring capabilities and the motives to cross the oceans and, in fact, did so repeatedly and with great impact. His deep and broad work synthesizes information and ideas from archaeology, geography, linguistics, climatology, oceanography, ethnobotany, genetics, medicine, and the history of navigation and seafaring, making an innovative and persuasive multidisciplinary case for a new understanding of human societies and their diffuse but interconnected development.

Guardian of the Great Lakes is the saga of the USS Michigan, an archetypal iron-hulled war steamer launched in 1843. Its mission was to patrol the often volatile Great Lakes region, quelling port town civil disturbances, while at the same time rescuing both Canadian and American ships in distress. Though built as a deterrent to British naval strength, the revolutionary U.S. Navy side-wheeled frigate soon became entangled in civil duties. Like a magnet for trouble, the Michigan found itself unavoidably attracted to calamity, leaving in its wake a collection of eyewitness accounts to these momentous yet largely forgotten occurrences. Incidents such as the timber rebellion of the 1850s, which occurred in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan, are documented for the first time. Other episodes such as the assassination of "King" Strang on Beaver Island and the destruction of the community there are studied under the light of newly discovered sources. Still other chapters reveal the chaos created by the Civil War on the lakes, the destructive mining strikes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the tragic, bloody Fenian invasion of Canada. Between major calamities lay the vagaries of maritime life on the Great Lakes detailed in the records of the Michigan's crew. From their social and community life in Erie, Pennsylvania, to storms, shipwrecks, and sickness, the records kept by the men of the USS Michigan have helped to produce in this book an accurate and detailed narrative of naval and maritime life on the Great Lakes during this important period. Guardian of the Great Lakes richly details the creation of this experiment in iron and its eight-decade patrol on the Great Lakes. The text paints awell documented picture of the northern Great Lakes frontier that proved nearly as unpredictable as its fabled brutal storms and white squalls.

Coverage is the North Sea coast, from the Belgian-French border, through the Zeeland, South Holland and North Holland coasts up to and including Den Helder. Included in the atlas are all of the navigational charts and tidal data required for coastal passage and approach. Also included is a larger-format passage planning sheet for plotting routes across the North Sea. "This 2020 edition has been fully updated throughout. The latest depth surveys and windfarm details are displayed, and the Roompotsluis plan has been extended." Charts in the atlas include 1. North Sea Coast - Nieuwpoort to Hoek Van Holland (1:300 000) 2. North Sea Coast - Hoek van Holland to Texel (1:300 000) 3. Approaches to Nieuwpoort and Oostende (1:100 000) includes plans Niewpoort (1:30 000) and Oostende (1:20 000) 4. Oostende to Westkapelle (1:100 000) includes plans Blankenberge (1:15 000) and Zeebrugge (1:35 000) 5. Entrance to the Westerschelde (1:50 000) includes plans Breskens (1:15 000), Vlissingen (1:20 000) and Cadzand-Bad (1:10 000) 6. Westkapelle to Westhoofd (1:100 000) includes plan Roompotsluis (1:30 000) 7. West Schouwen to Hoek van Holland (1:100 000) includes plan Stellendam (1:30 000) 8. Hoek van Holland to IJmuiden (1:125 000) includes plans Scheveningen (1:15 000) and IJmuiden (1:35 000) 9. IJmuiden to Den Helder (1:125 000) 10. Approaches to Den Helder (1:50 000) includes plan Den Helder (1:20 000) 11. Southern North Sea passage planning chart (1:500 000) Commended for the John C Bartholemew Award for Thematic Mapping at the 2016 British Cartographic Society Awards.

Part of Imray's popular small format chart coverage for the Netherlands, this atlas is a convenient A2 format, wirobound along one edge. Includes extensive coverage of Nieuwe Waterweg, Nieuwe- and Oude Maas, Brielse Meer, Spui, Noord, Dortsche Kil, Hollandsch Diep, Haringvliet, Volkerak and Grevelingenmeer. Also included are approach charts to the Maas and Haringvliet entrances, and detail of the standing mast routes between Rotterdam and Amsterdam. 1. Rijn and Maas Delta Overview Chart (1:250 000) 2. Approaches to The Maas (1:45 000) 3. Approaches to Haringvliet (1:45 000) 4. Europoort & entrance to Nieuwe Waterweg (1:25 000) 5. Nieuwe Waterweg - Hoek van Holland to Maassluis (1:25 000) includes plans Hoek van Holland (1:10 000) and Maassluis (1:15 000) 6. Brielse Meer (1:15 000) includes plan Brielse Meer - continuation to Zwartewaal (1:15 000) 7. Maassluis to Nieuwe Maas & Oude Maas (1:20 000) 8. Rotterdam (1:20 000) 9. Rotterdam to Alblasserdam (1:20 000) 10. Approaches to Dordrecht (1:20 000) 11. Oude Maas - Hoogvliet to Puttershoek (1:20 000) includes plan Puttershoek (1:10 000) 12. Spui (1:20 000) includes plans Zuidland & Goudswaard (1:10 000) and Nieuw Beijerland (1:10 000) 13. Dortsche Kil to Hollandsch Diep (1:25 000) includes plans Strijensas (1:10 000), Moerdijk (1:10 000) and Noordschans (1:10 000) 14. Haringvliet West (1:30 000) includes plans Hellevoetsluis (1:15 000) and Middelharnis Entrance (1:10 000) 15. Haringvliet East (1:30 000) includes plans Stad aan't Haringvliet (1:10 000), Den Bommel (1:10 000) and Hitsertse Kade (1:10 000) 16. Hollandsch Diep East & Volkerak (1:30 000) includes plans Willemstad (1:12 500), Dintelsas (1:20 000) and Benedensas (1:15 000) 17. Grevelingenmeer East to Krammersluizen (1:30 000) includes plans Herkingen (1:10 000) and Bruinisse (1:15 000) 18. Grevelingenmeer West (1:30 000) includes plans Scharendijke (1:20 000), Den Osse ( 1:20 000), Brouwershaven (1:10 000) and Ouddorp (1:10 000) 19. Standing Mast Routes - Rotterdam to Amsterdam (South sheet) (1:50 000) 20. Standing Mast Routes - Rotterdam to Amsterdam (North sheet) (1:50 000) includes plan Amsterdam - Houthaven to Sixhaven (1:22 500) Imray Digital Charts: Free mobile download A voucher code to download ID80 Imray Netherlands charts into Imray Navigator (our app for iPad, iPhone and Android) is included with this atlas.

Plans included:IJmuiden (1:35 000)Den Helder (1:21 000)West-Terschelling (1:20 000)Lauwersoog (1:15 000)Borkum Yacht Harbour (1:25 000)Norderney Approaches (1:66 000)Helgoland (1:25 000)Cuxhaven (1:12 500)Brunsbuttel (1:12 500)On this 2017 edition the latest depth surveys have been applied, as has the latest information regarding wind farms and nature reserves. The chart specification has been improved to show coloured light flashes. There has been general updating throughout.

Portsmouth Harbour & Approaches. This chart is a replica of Imray chart 2200.5. It is printed on water resistant paper.

The titles in Conway's highly acclaimed Anatomy of the Ship series are widely acknowledged as standard references in their field, providing accurate and comprehensive documentation of individual ships and classes. Selected titles are now available in a new paperback format, making the series accessible to a new generation of historians, scholars, enthusiasts and ship modelmakers. The Bismarck is probably the most famous warship in the world. The 45,000-ton German battleship was completed in early 1941 and went on to sink the 'Mighty Hood', pride of the Royal Navy, during one of the most sensational naval encounters ever. After a dramatic chase around the North Atlantic, involving many units of the Royal Navy, Bismarck was finally dispatched with gunfire and torpedoes on 27 May, less than five months after she was completed. Her wreck still lies where she sank, 4,800m down and 960km off the west coast of France. In this superb book Bismarck gets the comprehensive Anatomy of the Ship treatment, which includes a complete set of superbly executed line drawings with fully descriptive keys. These are supported by technical details, photographs and a record of the ship's service history. Complete with colour references on the book cover as well as large-scale plans on the interior flaps.

Building on prior RAND research, this monograph explores the need for and retention of technical skills in the UK1s maritime industry, particularly among designers and engineers involved with surface ship and submarine acquisition and support. The results reveal that the UK1s future naval programme likely will have to be modified or augmented to sustain these technical skills in the long term.

The 'Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen' is intended primarily for merchant seamen on UK-registered vessels. The Code details the regulatory framework for health and safety on board ship, safety management and statutory duties underlying the advice in the Code, and the areas that should be covered when introducing a new recruit to the safety procedures on board. Amendment 8 is the latest amendment to the Code and contains two significant changes to the existing Code following the introduction of new regulations. The first change relates to the Merchant Shipping (Health and Safety at Work) Carcinogens and Mutagens Regulations 2007, which came into force on the 1 March 2008 which necessitates the inclusion of a new section in Chapter 27 - Hazardous Substances. The second change relates to the Merchant Shipping (Control of Noise at Work) Regulations 2007 and Merchant Shipping (Control of Vibration at Work) Regulations 2007 which came into force on the 23 February 2008. Copies of the current edition of the Code must be carried on all UK ships other than fishing vessels and pleasure craft. A copy must be made available to any seaman in the ship who requests it, in accordance with the Merchant Shipping (Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen) Regulations 1998. Amendment 9 to the Code of Safe Working Practices for Merchant Seamen provides some useful pictorial representations of various existing safety points contained within the Code: these include arrangements for working aloft, working on portable ladders, arrangements for entrances into enclosed spaces, use of mobile work equipment and the positioning of boarding equipment.