Word: charting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...repeated by Chancellor Shipley, who in the absence of Sir Henry Jones, of the University of Glasgow, again took the floor. He also dwelt on the value of the pure sciences, such as mathematics. To illustrate this he said that seven years ago he was on a commission to chart the currents at the bottom of the North Sea, an assignment apparently impractical. But in the war the British were able to place their mines, but ahead of the maps made by this commission, so that the mines drifted exactly where they were expected to. He spoke of the value...
...ground covered by the instruction is substantially that of the "American Practical Navigator," Bowditch. A considerable part of the time will be devoted to the theory and practice in the use of nautical instruments, including the chart, compass--corrections and adjustments--lead, log, and sextant in the determination of the position of a ship at sea. The course also instructs in the determination of time, as well as the latitude and longitude, by means of the sextant...
...class will include only those who apply especialy for such a course. The instruction will cover generally those parts of the subject that will be useful for motorboat owners and others interested in the management of power boats employed with the patrol squadrons, such as pilot- ing, dead reckoning, chart reading...
...twenty, mate of a whaling ship at twenty-six, and master at thirty. For twenty years this rugged "toiler of the sea" chased the whale south to the Falkland in the Antarctic Ocean and north to the Banks Land in the Arctic following a course traced out upon no chart, avoiding shoals marked by no buoys, and all the time surrounded by countless dangers...
...strike out without map or chart...