American practical navigator: an epitome of navigation and nautical astronomy (1914)
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Equipment, Logan, George Wood, 1868-1915 · Washington, Govt. Print. Off. · leaf 22
ortheastby North, Northeast by East, etc. INSTRUMENTS AND ACCESSORIES IN NAVIGATION. 15 In boxing by fractioDal points, it is evident that each division may be referred toeither of the whole points to which it is adjacent; for instance, NE. by N. ^ N. andNNE. 4- E. would describe the same division.… … Fig. 2. N. i E., N. by E. J E., NNE. IE., NE. ^ N., etc. Some mariners, however, make it apractice to box/rom each cardinal and inter-cardinal point toward a 22^°-point (NNE.,ENE., etc.); as N. i E., N. by E. ^ E., NE. by N. i N., NE. h N., etc. The names of the whole points, together with…
Navigation · Nautical astronomy
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