The method of determining the true motion of a ship, when, besides being acted upon by the wind, she is drifting by the effect of a current. A due allowance must therefore be made by the navigator.
·adj Running or moving rapidly. II. Current ·adj Commonly estimated or acknowledged. III. Current ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Sail>>. II. Sailing ·noun The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation...
A certain progressive flowing of the sea in one direction, by which all bodies floating therein are ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The movement of a vessel by means of her sails along the surface of the water. Sailing, or the saili...
·add. ·- A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow. ...
·add. ·- The current flowing through a delta connection. ...
·add. ·- A current flowing in one direction only; — distinguished from alternating current. When st...
·add. ·- An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; — called also Fouca...
·add. ·- An eddy current. ...
·add. ·- A current due to variation in the magnetic field surrounding its conductor. ...
·add. ·- A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and...
·add. ·- A current alternating in direction. ...
·add. ·- The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in paralle...
·- A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea...
·add. ·- A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or...
·add. ·- The current through one branch of the star arrangement of a three-phase circuit. ...
That portion of water diverted from the main stream of a current by the particular formation of the ...
The set, chiefly westerly, so frequently met with near the equator, especially in the Atlantic Ocean...
A general designation for all the methods on which the rules of computation are founded, on the hypo...
Performed loxodromically, by means of Mercator's charts. ...
Is the reduction of the position of the ship from the various courses made good, oblique to the meri...
Sailing nearly on a given parallel of latitude. ...
That part of navigation which treats a ship's course as an angle, and the distance, difference of la...
Running a course on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter only a ship's latitude, or longi...
An officer in some navies, whose duties are similar to those of our masters in the royal navy. ...
Works supplied by the admiralty to Her Majesty's ships, which advise the navigator as to the pilotag...
A number of loose pieces floating at a sufficient distance from each other, for a ship to be able to...
With a quartering wind. (See large.) ...
Written instructions for the performance of any proposed duty. ...
A current which does not extend more than 8 or 10 feet below the surface. Also, fresh water running ...
A scheme for detecting the approach to shoal water by the diminution of temperature, and found to be...
Resolving a traverse is merely a general term for the determination of a single course equivalent to...
A stream which sets beneath the surface-water of the sea whilst that is either in a quiescent state ...
, or turning to windward. That mode of navigating a ship in which she endeavours to gain a positio...
Synonymous with Mercator's sailing. ...
Is a method for determining a series of points in an arc of a great circle between two points on the...
A method of converting departure in difference of longitude, and vice versâ, by using the middle lat...
See sailing, order of. ...
The general disposition of a fleet of ships when proceeding on a voyage or an expedition. It is gene...
, depends on several circumstances. First, the tide varies with the state of the moon, running stron...
See direction of the wind and current ...
These are opposite terms; the direction of the winds and waves being named from the point of the com...