Dutton's Navigation and Piloting

✍ Scribed by Elbert S Maloney

• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 666
• Edition: 14
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Covers geographic coordinates, compasses, dead reckoning, tides, currents, radar piloting, and celestial, satellite, inertial, omega system, and computer navigation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Contents
Preface
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 of Celestial Bodies
21 The Marine Sextant: Its Use, Adju tment and Corrections
22 Time
23 Almanacs; Celestial Phenomena
24 Sight Reduction Methods
25 Celestial Lines of Position
26 The Complete Celestial Solution
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 System
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
Appendix A Abbreviations
Appendix B Symbols
Appendix C Standards of Precision and Accuracy; Mathematical Rules
Appendix D The Metric System
Appendix E Conversion Table for Feet, Fathoms, and Meters
Appendix F The Use of Electronic Calculators and Computers in Navigation
Index
Nautical Chart Symbols and Abbreviations
INTRODUCTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS
A The Coastline
B Coast Features
C The Land
D Control Points
E Units
F Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns, and Other Words
G Ports and Harbors
H Topography
I Buildings and Structures
J Miscellaneous Stations
K Lights
L Buoys and Beacons
M Radio and Radar Stations
N Fog Signals
O Dangers
P Various Limits, etc.
Q Soundings
R Depth Contours and Tints
S Quality of the Bottom
T Tides and Currents
U Compass
V Abbreviations of principal foreign terms, (Glossary)
Index of Abbreviations
AIDS TO NAVIGATION IN UNITED STATES WATERS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES (I.A.LA.) MARITIME BUOYAGE SYSTEM