The Principles of Navigation
The Admiralty Manual of Navigation Volume 1
11th Edition
Published on 1. January 2019
Book
Hardback
978-1-906915-64-3 (ISBN)
Description
This comprehensive reference lays the foundation for safe and effective navigation at sea, including ocean and coastal passages, pilotage and anchoring. The fundamental principles of navigation developed over centuries of experience in the Royal Navy have been applied to the ECDIS era so that this new edition is 'digital by default'. .
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Series
Edition
11th New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 310 mm
Width: 217 mm
Thickness: 40 mm
Weight
2490 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906915-64-3 (9781906915643)
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Content
Foreword
Preface 1
Preface 2
Equality analysis
Acknowledgements and copyright
Conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction to maritime navigation
Chapter 2: Position and direction on the Earth's surface
Chapter 3: Geodesy
Chapter 4: Digital navigation
Chapter 5: Digital navigation
Chapter 6: Use of WECDIS
Chapter 7: Fixing
Chapter 8: Internal navaids and systems
Chapter 9: External aids to navigation
Chapter 10: Tides, currents and tidal streams
Chapter 11: Ocean navigation
Chapter 12: Coastal navigation
Chapter 13: Pilotage and blind pilotage
Chapter 14: Anchoring
Chapter 15: Navigational errors
Chapter 16: Relative velocity
Chapter 17: Surveying for non-surveyors
Chapter 18: Bridge organisation and management
Appendix 1: Plane trigonometry
Appendix 2: Spherical trigonometry
Appendix 3: The spherical Earth
Appendix 4: Projections
Appendix 5: The spheroidal Earth
Appendix 6: Vertical sextant angles
Appendix 7: Doubling the angle on the bow
Appendix 8: Errors in terrestrial position lines
Appendix 9: Paper charts and chartwork
Royal Navy authorship
Preface 1
Preface 2
Equality analysis
Acknowledgements and copyright
Conventions
Chapter 1: Introduction to maritime navigation
Chapter 2: Position and direction on the Earth's surface
Chapter 3: Geodesy
Chapter 4: Digital navigation
Chapter 5: Digital navigation
Chapter 6: Use of WECDIS
Chapter 7: Fixing
Chapter 8: Internal navaids and systems
Chapter 9: External aids to navigation
Chapter 10: Tides, currents and tidal streams
Chapter 11: Ocean navigation
Chapter 12: Coastal navigation
Chapter 13: Pilotage and blind pilotage
Chapter 14: Anchoring
Chapter 15: Navigational errors
Chapter 16: Relative velocity
Chapter 17: Surveying for non-surveyors
Chapter 18: Bridge organisation and management
Appendix 1: Plane trigonometry
Appendix 2: Spherical trigonometry
Appendix 3: The spherical Earth
Appendix 4: Projections
Appendix 5: The spheroidal Earth
Appendix 6: Vertical sextant angles
Appendix 7: Doubling the angle on the bow
Appendix 8: Errors in terrestrial position lines
Appendix 9: Paper charts and chartwork
Royal Navy authorship