The Story of the "Britannia": The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.Statham, Edward Phillips
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The Story of the "Britannia": The training ship for naval cadets. With some account of previous methods of naval education, and of the new scheme of 1903.
Statham, Edward Phillips
Britannia (Ship); Great Britain. Royal Navy; Naval education -- Great Britain
NAVIGATION |Plane Sailing, Traverse|Parallel, Mid. Latitude,
| Sailing, Definitions, | and Mercator's
| and Examples. | Sailings.
| |Correcting Courses.
| |All necessary
| | Definitions.
| |Windward and Current
| | Sailing.
| |
NAUTICAL ASTRONOMY | |Lat. by Mer. Altitude.
| |
INSTRUMENTS |Sextant.--Parts and Adjustments, Principles of
| construction of Sextant, Vernier, and
| Artificial Horizon. Reading, taking Angles
| and Index Error.
|Compass.--Thomson, Parts of, and use. Taking
| bearings by.
| |
CHARTS |Admiralty Charts and Plans.--Use of. Plotting
| positions by latitude and longitude, and by
| cross bearings.
|Mercator's Chart.--Drawing. Plotting positions
| on. Course and Distance made good. Set and
| drift of Current. Shape a Course.
|
|Practical use of Chart and Compass when away
| in _Racer_.
| |
STEAM AND STEAM |Measurements. |Recapitulation.
MACHINERY |Metals. |Combustion.
|Riveted Joints. |Evaporation.
|Screw Fastenings. |Valves and Cocks.
|Friction. |Heat.
|Mechanics. |
| |
FRENCH |Practical Instruction. |Practical Instruction.
|Grammar: Substantive, |Recapitulation.
| Adjective, Pronoun, |Elementary Syntax.
| regular and irregular |Past Participle, etc.
| Verbs. |
|Interrogative and |
| Negative Sentences. |
|Conversation. |Conversation.
| |
DRAWING |Simple Models, and |
| copies. |
| |
DRAWING, MECHANICAL |Simple Solids. |Orthographic Projection,
|Plans and Elevations. | Simple Solids, Plans,
| | Elevations, and
| | Sections.
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