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ship's and compass
However, as with almost all vessels of any culture before the late 19th century, the accuracy of magnetic compasses aboard ship, whether from a failure to understand deviation ( the magnetism of the ship's iron fastenings ) or poor design of the compass card ( the standard drypoint compasses were extremely unstable ), meant that they did little to contribute to the accuracy of navigation by dead reckoning.
In navigation, he was expected to be able to keep a reckoning of the ship's way by plane sailing, to use Mercator projection maps and observation of the sun and stars to determine the course and position of the ship, and to understand the variation of the compass.
The name of the island came about because of the apparent " magnetic " effect it had on the ship's compass of Captain Cook as he passed the island when sailing up the east coast of Australia in 1770.
The two iron balls on each side of a magnetic compass, used to balance out and counteract magnetic variations based on a ship's location, are traditionally called " Lamberts ", in his honor.
* Any reading from a magnetic compass refers to compass north ( 4 ), which is supposed to contain a two-part compass error: a ) The Earth's magnetic field's north direction, or magnetic north ( 3 ), almost always differs from true north by magnetic variation ( 6 ), the local amount of which is given in nautical charts, and b ) ship's own magnetic field may influence the compass by so-called magnetic deviation ( 5 ).
* Binnacle: The stand on which the ship's compass is mounted.
* Corrector: A device to correct the ship's compass, for example counteracting errors due to the magnetic effects of a steel hull.
* Lubber's line: A vertical line inside a compass case indicating the direction of the ship's head.
* Swinging the compass: Measuring the accuracy in a ship's magnetic compass so its readings can be adjusted — often by turning the ship and taking bearings on reference points.
The Japanese submarine becomes lost trying to find Los Angeles when the ship's compass is broken.
The magnets are positioned to reduce the effect of the ship's permanent magnetization on the compass.
The deviation errors caused by magnetism in the ship's structure are minimised by precisely positioning small magnets and iron compensators close to the compass.
Sailing ships generally had two kinds of compasses: steering compasses, two of which would be mounted in a binnacle in front of the helm for use in maintaining a course ; and a bearing compass that was used for taking the bearings of celestial objects, landmarks and the ship's wake.
On merchant ships, it is taught at the various maritime academies that the proper way to relieve the helm is for the helmsman being relieved to call out loudly the ship's course per gyro, course per standard magnetic compass, steering mode, rudder angle, and the pump the vessel is steering off of.

ship's and was
Philip Staffe, the ship's carpenter, was a good worker, but perversely independent.
Foley's attack was followed by Hood in Zealous, who also crossed the French line and successfully anchored next to Guerrier in the space Foley had intended, engaging the lead ship's bow from close range.
Zealous by contrast was barely touched: Hood had situated Zealous outside the arc of most of the French ship's broadside and in any case Guerrier was not prepared for an engagement on both sides simultaneously, with its port guns blocked by stores.
Aboard the Orion, a wooden block was smashed off one of the ship's masts, killing two men before wounding Captain Saumarez in the thigh.
On Peuple Souverain, Captain Pierre-Paul Raccord was badly wounded and ordered his ship's anchor cable cut in an effort to escape the bombardment.
Tonnage measured a ship's cargo capacity and was used to calculate tax and harbour dues.
As Duke inspects the ship's computer, it is revealed that the plot to capture women was merely a ruse to distract him.
She is reputed to have commented after he was threatened with disciplinary action following the straining of his ship's engines, " What?
* Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was originally attributed to " Lemuel Gulliver ", a ship's surgeon, and purported to be a factual account of four of his sea voyages.
Daniel MacKenzie of the American whaler Minerva Smith was unaware of Worth's sighting when he charted the island in 1828 and named it after his ship's owners on 1 December 1828.
The system was a simple one in which each ship received a number which was appended to its ship type, fully spelled out, and added parenthetically after the ship's name when deemed necessary to avoid confusion between ships.
The SP and ID numbers were used parenthetically after each boat's or ship's name to identify it ; although this system pre-dated the modern hull classification system and its numbers were not referred to at the time as " hull codes " or " hull numbers ," it was used in a similar manner to today's system and can be considered its precursor.
The eruption was also reported by a Bengali sea captain, who wrote of the event later, but who had not recorded it at the time in the ship's log.
This attempt to relieve the pressure on Sydney turned to disaster when Sirius was wrecked and, although there was no loss of life, some stores were destroyed, and the ship's crew was marooned for ten months.
For example, it was featured in at least 10 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a weekly event of the senior staff of the fictional ship's crew.
By 1516, he was again at sea as a ship's captain in the Ottoman fleet.
As the periplus was a sort of ship's log, he probably did reach the Vistula.
The few fragments that have survived indicate that this material was a significant part of the periplus, possibly kept as the ship's log.
He was appointed ship's doctor on the frigate Adriana on the voyage from Rotterdam to Batavia ( present-day Jakarta ) in the Dutch East Indies ( present-day Indonesia ).
In January 1913, before Terra Nova left for home, a large wooden cross was made by the ship's carpenters, inscribed with the names of the lost party and Tennyson's line from his poem Ulysses: " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield ", and was erected as a permanent memorial on Observation Hill, overlooking Hut Point.

ship's and useless
His principal weapon is a machine in the form of a large claw which gives off magnetic-like energy: by placing it against a ship's hull Vulter can turn the whole metal ship into one large magnet which sticks weapons to the wall, making them useless.
Meanwhile, they dismiss the navigator as a useless stargazer, though he is the only one with adequate knowledge to direct the ship's course.

ship's and because
Kidd became captain, either the result of an election of the ship's crew or because of appointment by Christopher Codrington, governor of the island of Nevis.
This is so because the earth is constantly rotating, and therefore knowing the time while making an altitude measurement to a known heavenly body such as the sun, provided critical data for a ship's position east-west — a necessary capability for re-approaching land after voyages over medium and long distances.
According to Irish legend, as a young girl Ní Mháille wished to go on a trading expedition to Spain with her father, and on being told she could not because her long hair would catch in the ship's ropes, she cut off most of her hair to embarrass her father into taking her, thus earning her the nickname " Gráinne Mhaol " (; from maol bald or having cropped hair ).
The Portuguese Court, which agreed with the figure provided by Eratosthenes, rejected Columbus ' proposal because they believed that the distance to Asia over the open Western Ocean was too great for the ship's crews to survive the journey without being able to make port and resupply.
He is a fundamentally decent person with left-leaning, liberal sensibilities who is apparently immune to the ship's effects because of a steel plate in his head, a souvenir of a teenage skiing accident.
Early navigators in the time before the invention of the chronometer used rhumb-line courses on long ocean passages, because the ship's latitude could be established accurately by sightings of the Sun or stars but there was no accurate way to determine the longitude.
The ship's crew could then abandon the ship, because Kahless had taken on the ship's fate.
On leaving the university, he took a position as a ship's surgeon on a ship trading between Scotland and West Africa, choosing this job because it offered the possibility of paying off his bank overdraft faster than any other.
As the ship heels over, the centre of gravity generally remains fixed with respect to the ship because it just depends upon position of the ship's weight and cargo, but the surface area increases, increasing BMφ.
The sails were never used for propulsion, but because a ship's performance was partly judged on the speed with which a ship could set sails, Fisher was obliged to drill the crew in their use.
" Many soldiers sleeping deep in the ship's hold disregarded the order because of the engine's heat.
The complaints arise primarily because most battles end up with ships entangled and battles being resolved by boarding parties fighting until one ship's crew is eliminated.
Both space wars began because an Earth vessel misunderstood the significance of an alien ship's open gunports, and fired on the ship based on this misunderstanding.
When the workers tried to order a suitable ship's anchor chain from London, the managers in London cancelled the first order because they thought it was a joke.
However, Holland America Line ( owner of Windstar Cruises at the time, itself a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc ) was unwilling to pay the costs involved, and even scrapping was uneconomical, because of the ship's small size and remoteness from shipbreakers in India, China, and elsewhere.
Salisbury's portrait of Cornwell hangs in the Anglican church within the Royal Navy's Initial Training Establishment HMS Raleigh, perhaps selected as an appropriate place also because the ship's Chaplain, The Rev.
This is because the voice of the ship's computer, in all live-action Star Trek shows, were provided by Majel Barrett, the same actress who portrayed Number One.
However, the supernatural powers ascribed to black cats were sometimes viewed positively, for example sailors considering a " ship's cat " would want a black one because it would bring good luck.
Harry becomes quite certain that, because the ship's future builders didn't seem to learn that their ship had already been discovered, the members of the team aren't likely to survive.
Some carriers were completed before and during World War II with catapults on the hangar deck that fired athwartships, but they were unpopular because of their short run, low clearance of the hangar decks, inability to add the ship's forward speed to the aircraft's airspeed for takeoff, and lower clearance from the water ( conditions which afforded pilots far less margin for error in the first moments of flight ).
" He ," wrote de Mafra, " told his men that they were now in the land he had desired, and sent a man named Herédia, who was the ship's clerk, ashore with an Indian they had taken, so they said, because he was known to speak Malay, the language spoken in the Malay Archipelago.
O ' Neill gives the remote to Lloyd's associates allowing them to flee Earth, both because he sympathizes with their plight and to deny the ship's technology to the NID.

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