Forum: Books, Magazines, TV, Video & Publications
17th October 2019, 16:19
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Replies: 16
Views: 1,711
I have a Norie's Tables of 1888 containing a...
I have a Norie's Tables of 1888 containing a complete treatise on celestial navigation. It has Admiral Sumner's new method of reducing a star sight to a position line (before Marc St. Hilaire's short...
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Forum: The Galley
16th October 2019, 16:50
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,323
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Forum: The Galley
15th October 2019, 17:59
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,323
Any ship's cook would acquire great skill at...
Any ship's cook would acquire great skill at working under difficult conditions. Before health & safety was invented all seamen survived by being alert to all sorts of dangers, or suffered greater or...
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Forum: News and Views from the Shipping World
27th September 2019, 03:51
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Replies: 30
Views: 1,498
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Forum: Offshore Oil & Gas Industry
22nd September 2019, 08:47
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Replies: 20
Views: 10,181
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Forum: Tall ships
17th September 2019, 09:20
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Replies: 27
Views: 2,486
Agreed. However I remember reading a what...
Agreed. However I remember reading a what appeared to be an autobiographical work that was on board a ship I sailed as apprentice in the 50's. I found it enthralling as it described all sorts of...
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Forum: The Bridge
9th September 2019, 20:52
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,961
Quite right. However I forgot to add that the...
Quite right. However I forgot to add that the toggle painter could still be used in a vessel dead in the water. The oaersmen on the off side would backwater and the boat's head would sheer as needed....
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Forum: Histories
9th September 2019, 20:40
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Replies: 2
Views: 401
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Forum: The Bridge
9th September 2019, 07:59
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Replies: 25
Views: 1,961
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Forum: United States Navy
5th September 2019, 07:47
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,040
Correct. And any number of electronic...
Correct. And any number of electronic applications seem to me to only exist to enable the so called designers to show off. Our Renault Scenic has persistent computer problems that don't really...
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Forum: Say Hello
5th August 2019, 09:25
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,086
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Forum: Say Hello
3rd August 2019, 08:38
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Replies: 3
Views: 445
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Forum: News and Views from the Shipping World
28th July 2019, 12:57
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Replies: 73
Views: 8,292
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Forum: Ship Research
23rd July 2019, 10:55
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,126
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Forum: Ship Research
22nd July 2019, 10:43
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Replies: 25
Views: 3,126
Barquette is a French culinary container....
Barquette is a French culinary container. Aluminium foil ones are sold in French supermarkets for packaging food cooked in them such as brawn or pate. The pastry ones are less common now, except...
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Forum: News and Views from the Shipping World
20th July 2019, 21:30
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Replies: 73
Views: 8,292
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
17th July 2019, 11:05
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,358
Thanks Phil. A Danish lass once made me a...
Thanks Phil. A Danish lass once made me a "Pirate's Eye," which was a slice of toast with a hole at one side with the egg fried or poached in it, and the piece from the hole on the other side to...
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Forum: Brocklebank Line
16th July 2019, 20:08
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,358
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Forum: Bank Line
16th July 2019, 18:05
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Replies: 15
Views: 2,164
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Forum: Ship Research
15th July 2019, 22:24
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,923
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Forum: Bank Line
14th July 2019, 21:53
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,134
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Forum: Ship Research
7th July 2019, 21:22
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,923
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Forum: Ship Research
6th July 2019, 08:57
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,923
Quite right, though other companies called us...
Quite right, though other companies called us apprentices. Applying varnish was the easy reward for all that scraping and sanding. Teak rails would be either bare and oiled after vigorous treatment...
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Forum: Maritime Family History Research
3rd July 2019, 23:08
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Replies: 6
Views: 607
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Forum: Say Hello
22nd June 2019, 09:13
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Replies: 23
Views: 4,531
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