ISBN: 1235609006

[EAN: 9781235609008], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], UNITED STATES HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 100 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2… More...

[EAN: 9781235609008], Neubuch, [PU: General Books LLC], UNITED STATES HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 100 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872. Excerpt: . . . TABLE SHOWING THE MAGNETIC DIRECTION AND RATE OF TIDAL STREAMS IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL AT EVERY HOUR OF THE TIDE AT DOVER. The time of high water at Dover is taken as the standard, so that whenever either the time of the turn or the direction of the stream is required to be known, the time of the ship, corrected for the longitude of Dover, is to be compared with the time of high water for the day at Dover, and the interval sought in the following table, and in the column answering to the ships position will be found the information required. In this table it has been necessary to class the information under heads answering to the various compartments of the Channel, for the courses of the stream in the mixed tides are so changeable that a very different stream will be found running at a place but little removed from another in the same portion of the Channel. The seaman must therefore look in w hich compartment, according to his latitude and longitude his ship is sailing, and in which quarter of that compartment, whether N. E. , N. W. , S. E. , or S. W. , and then enter the table for the direction, of the stream. The 1st compartment comprises the approach to the English Channel westward of a line joining Ouessant and Stilly. The 2d compartment comprises a space eastward of the before-mentioned line from Ouessant to Scilly, and as far as a line joining the Start and the Vasquets. In this part of the Channel there is a mixed tide, partaking of the joint directions of the Channel and offing streams. The 3d compartment is bounded on the west by the line joining the Casquets and the Start, aud on the east by a line from Beachy Head to Dieppe, having the Baie de la Seine on the south. As soon as a vessel passes to the eastward of the Start and Casquets she gets int. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

ISBN: 9781235609008

United States Hydrographic Office, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, , Sailing-Directions-for-the-English-Channel~~Hydrographic-Office, 999999999, Saili… More...

United States Hydrographic Office, Paperback, English-language edition, Pub by General Books LLC Books, , Sailing-Directions-for-the-English-Channel~~Hydrographic-Office, 999999999, Sailing Directions for the English Channel, United States Hydrographic Office, 1235609006, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

2012, ISBN: 9781235609008

General Books, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2012-01-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.43 kg, Kategorien, Bücher, General Books, 2012