Marine Navigation 1 : Piloting

✍ Scribed by Richard R. Hobbs (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 358
• Series: Fundamentals of Naval Science Series 4
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Throughout the history of warfare at sea, navigation has been an important basic determinant of victory. Occasionally, new members of the fraternity of the sea will look upon navigation as a chore to be tolerated only as long as it takes to find someone else to assume the responsibility. In my experience, such individuals never make good naval officers. Commander Hobbs has succeeded in bringing together the information and practical skills required for that individual who would take the first step down the road toward becoming a competent marine navigator. At the outset of this book, the author stresses the necessity for safe navigation, but there is another basic tenet of sea warfare that this book serves. The best weapons system man has ever devised cannot function effectively unless it knows where it is in relation to the real world, where it is in relation to the enemy, and where the enemy is in relation to the real world. Not all defeats can be attributed to this lack of information, but no victories have been won by those who did not know where they were.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Art of Navigation....Pages 1-3
The Shipboard Navigation Department Organization....Pages 4-8
The Piloting Team....Pages 9-16
The Nautical Chart....Pages 17-50
Navigational Publications....Pages 51-76
Visual Navigation Aids....Pages 77-109
Navigational Instruments....Pages 110-130
Dead Reckoning....Pages 131-150
Shipboard Compasses....Pages 151-170
Radar....Pages 171-182
Tide....Pages 183-205
Current....Pages 206-231
Current Sailing....Pages 232-241
Precise Piloting and Anchoring....Pages 242-259
Voyage Planning....Pages 260-283
Back Matter....Pages 285-348

✦ Subjects

Science, general