Dutton's Navigation & piloting / G.D. Dunlap.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1985Edition: Fourteenth editionDescription: viii, 588, 52 pages : illustration ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • [newsprint]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 623.89 D92 1985
Contents:
Contents: 1 Introduction to navigation -- 2 The earth and geographic coordinates -- 3 Compasses -- 4 Aids to navigation -- 5 Nautical charts -- 6 Navigational publications -- 7 Instruments for piloting -- 8 Dead reckoning -- 9 Tides and tide predictions -- 10 Currents and current prediction -- 11 Visual piloting -- 12 Current sailing -- 13 Ship characteristics in piloting -- 14 Relative motion -- 15 The piloting team -- 16 Radar piloting -- 17 The practice of piloting -- 18 Navigational astronomy -- 19 Introduction to celestial navigation -- 20 Identification to celestial bodies -- 21 The marine sextant: its use, adjustment, and corrections -- 22 Time -- 23 Almanacs; celestial phenomena -- 24 Sight reduction methods -- 27 Latitude and longitude observations -- 28 Compass checks at sea -- 29 The practice of celestial navigation -- 30 The sailings -- 31 Fundamentals of radionavigation -- 32 Basic radionavigation systems -- 33 Omega navigation -- 34 Satellite navigation -- 35 Inertial navigation -- 36 Bathymetric navigation -- 37 Doppler navigation -- 38 Navigational computers -- 39 Lifeboat navigation -- 40 Polar navigation -- 41 Ship weather routing.
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Reserve Reserve College Library Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering 623.89 D92 1985 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.18 Available 56004

Includes index.

Contents: 1 Introduction to navigation -- 2 The earth and geographic coordinates -- 3 Compasses -- 4 Aids to navigation -- 5 Nautical charts -- 6 Navigational publications -- 7 Instruments for piloting -- 8 Dead reckoning -- 9 Tides and tide predictions -- 10 Currents and current prediction -- 11 Visual piloting -- 12 Current sailing -- 13 Ship characteristics in piloting -- 14 Relative motion -- 15 The piloting team -- 16 Radar piloting -- 17 The practice of piloting -- 18 Navigational astronomy -- 19 Introduction to celestial navigation -- 20 Identification to celestial bodies -- 21 The marine sextant: its use, adjustment, and corrections -- 22 Time -- 23 Almanacs; celestial phenomena -- 24 Sight reduction methods -- 27 Latitude and longitude observations -- 28 Compass checks at sea -- 29 The practice of celestial navigation -- 30 The sailings -- 31 Fundamentals of radionavigation -- 32 Basic radionavigation systems -- 33 Omega navigation -- 34 Satellite navigation -- 35 Inertial navigation -- 36 Bathymetric navigation -- 37 Doppler navigation -- 38 Navigational computers -- 39 Lifeboat navigation -- 40 Polar navigation -- 41 Ship weather routing.

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