The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution (1911) (14778773732)

Identifier: romanceofshipsto00chat (find matches)
Title: The romance of the ship; the story of her origin and evolution
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944
Subjects: Ships Shipbuilding
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott company London, Seeley and co., limited
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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The shortestdistance in which a ship can sail from one point toanother is an arc of a great circle. Nowadays, whenevery minute of a liners passage is valuable, and thekeenest effort is made to get the ship in port with thegreatest possible saving of time, the navigator must needsbe fomiliar with such higher branches of his duties asthis. To follow this interesting point any further wouldbe to involve the reader in matters of navigation andseamanship, which he would possibly be unable to followwithout a knowledge of the sea terms employed, but itwas deemed worth while that this interesting questionshould be here raised. Nor must the reader confuse seamanship with naviga-tion, though both are essential for an officer in anyship that goes out of sight of land. Seamanship in-cludes the details connected with the handling of theship, the knowledge of working the sails, the rule ofthe road at sea, the use of the lead-line for fathomingthe depth of water under a ship, mooring and anchor- 294
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