 | Henry Raper - Nautical astronomy - 1840 - 700 pages
...find the long. in. Long, left 178° 54' W. Diff. long 3 4 \V. LONG. IN 181 58 W. Or 178 » E. 120. The COURSE steered is the angle between the meridian...ship's head is less than eight points from the north point. The same of the south point. The course is measured in points, of 11° 15' each, or in degrees... | |
 | Henry Raper - 1870 - 968 pages
...E. 5. Long. left. 179° 10' E. diff. of long. 84' E. : what is the long, in ? Ans. 179° 26' W. 197. The COURSE steered is the angle between the meridian...the north, towards the east or west, when the ship's bead is less than eight points from the north point. The same applies to the south point. The course... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - Merchant marine - 1875 - 416 pages
...coincident. 137. The Course from one point of tho earth's surface to another is the constant angle which tho rhumb curve joining the two points makes with the...south point. The course is measured in points of 1 1° 15' each, or in degrees and minutes. 1 38. The Distance between two places is the aro of the rhumb... | |
 | Henry Raper - Nautical astronomy - 1882 - 952 pages
...i5?°2o'E. 5. Long. left. 179° 10' E. diff. of long. 84' E. : what is the long, in ? Ans. 179° 26' W. 197. The COURSE steered is the angle between the meridian...the north, towards the east or west, when the ship's Ivead is less than eight points from the north point. The same applies to the south point. The course... | |
 | John Bradley Harbord - Naval art and science - 1883 - 472 pages
...Good, the former being the angle between the meridian and the ship's " foreand-aft line ", the latter, the angle between the meridian and the ship's real track on the surface of the sphere, indicated by her " wake " in the water. Having given two places, and hence the true course from one... | |
 | William Robert Martin - Nautical astronomy - 1899 - 474 pages
...steered is the angle between the meridian and the direction of the ship's head ; the course (true) made good is the angle between the meridian and the ship's real track over the ground. |i il-^__ ! :' ". ' '" :£ /-i2"f;"' 8~ '""!'* -~- ^QO. Pfelf* ' i8ao --*r oo + 1831... | |
 | William Thoms - Nautical astronomy - 1902 - 514 pages
...» I ^ ) > b"' ,•»' /*'/'/'', ' LX/ / •-• ftt'/et/ PRINCIPLES OF THE RIGHT-ANGLED TRIANGLE. THE Course steered is the angle between the Meridian and the Ship's head ; the Course made good is1 Ike angle between the Meridian and the Ship's real track on the ocean. The Course is reckoned from... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1903 - 390 pages
...shorter the distance necessary to sail in order to change the same distance of longitude. The courge steered is the angle between the meridian and the...made good is the angle between the meridian and the real track of the ship. In Fig. 2 let NS be a true north and south line, or meridian, and WE an east... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1906 - 680 pages
...latitude the shorter the distance necessary to sail in order to change the same distance of longitude. The course steered is the angle between the meridian...made good is the angle between the meridian and the real track of the ship. In Fig. 2 let NS be a true north and south line, or meridian, and WE an east... | |
 | American School (Chicago, Ill.) - Engineering - 1906 - 550 pages
...latitude the shorter the distance necessary to sail in order to change the same distance of longitude. The course steered is the angle between the meridian...made good is the angle between the meridian and the real track of the ship. In Fig. 2 let NS be a true north and south line, or meridian, and WK an east... | |
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The COURSE steered is the angle between the meridian and the ship's head. The course made good is the angle between the meridian and the ship's real track on the surface of the sphere. The course is reckoned from the north, towards the east or west, when... 