Synonymous with Mercator's sailing.
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Sail>>. II. Sailing ·noun The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
The movement of a vessel by means of her sails along the surface of the water. Sailing, or the saili...
The Sailor's Word-Book
North out of Chick Lane to Duke's Court on the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without (Horwood...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
See Lancaster Place. ...
Particular artificers employed in the erection of the early ship's castles. ...
The method of determining the true motion of a ship, when, besides being acted upon by the wind, she...
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 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...
, or turning to windward. That mode of navigating a ship in which she endeavours to gain a positio...
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...