About This Book
A practical course of navigation lectures presents elementary and applied seamanship for junior deck officers, pairing concise explanations with worked examples and exercises. Early lessons cover piloting and instruments, including compass use and errors, pelorus, parallel rulers, sounding gear, charts, protractors and sextant adjustments. Dead reckoning and sailing methods—plane, traverse, Mercator and great-circle—are developed with useful tables and example problems alongside chronometer and timekeeping instruction. Celestial navigation chapters explain celestial coordinates, almanac use, sight reduction and correction, line-of-position techniques, latitude and longitude by sun and star sights, and basic star identification methods. Final lectures outline routine shipboard navigation, compass deviation and adjustment, and a navigator’s day work practice.
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