Questions tagged [nautical]
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Why does the US use the opposite convention to the rest of the world for colour-coding harbour buoys?
According to the this answer, in the US buoys on the right are red when returning to a harbour, with green on the left. This is in contrast to most of the rest of the world.
What caused this split in ...
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Was the Titanic tragedy at least partly avoidable?
Was there any way that Titanic's collision with the iceberg could have been avoided after the iceberg had been spotted? Could the ship have been saved from sinking by the pilot or captain after the ...
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Castaways rescued by a message in a bottle?
Has there ever been a time when people were rescued by sending out a message in a bottle to drift across the sea?
The "bottle" doesn't have to be an actual bottle. It could be a box, a cask, a ...
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How many surface ships have reached the North Pole?
I realize that the nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika (Soviet Union) reached the north pole on August 17, 1977. However, I would like to know of any other ships that have also reached the North Pole.
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Did Japanese castaways land in Spanish California?
George Lensen's "The Russian Push Toward Japan" says on p. 261:
In 1815 the transport Pavel under the command of Navigator's Apprentice Srednii left Okhotsk with six Japanese castaways, three of ...
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Identifying a ship in Sydney Harbour
I am trying to identify the ship in this picture in order to date the photograph.
The writing on the back says it is "Aquatania" (sic) but when I search for that name on the internet the Aquitania has ...
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Can anyone help identify this passenger steamship with double funnels and two masts?
I believe that this unidentified passenger steamship could possibly be from the New England area or the Great Lakes. I have already ruled out this vessel as being the S.S. Boston of the Eastern ...
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What type of naval ship is this?
What type of naval ship is this? Note gun batteries on stern, Unknown location and date.
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What does 'half-decked' mean?
I'm reading Washington Irving's Life of Christopher Columbus, where he writes:
Two of them were light, half-decked caravels; the Santa Maria, on
which Columbus hoisted his flag, was completely ...
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What is the earliest mention of use of spyglass by seafarers?
I am somewhat familiar with history of telescope in the scientific context however didn't find much info about history of its use for practical purposes beyond general statements. I'm more interested ...
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Cabin space on the Nadezhda
Nikolai Rezanov was Russian's envoy to Japan in 1804, sailing there in Russia's first circumnavigation aboard the Nadezhda. This originally English ship was outfitted for the voyage at government ...
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How many people survived the Titanic?
How many people survived the Titanic? Was it 706, 706 or 705 or can we only say it was between 705 and 713 ? Where do these various number come from?
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Could some of the Titanic passengers have climbed on the iceberg to survive? [closed]
If the iceberg was large enough and not far away so that after the disaster that is was photographed, maybe some passengers could have climbed onto it in an effort to survive?
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How did people sleep on historic ship types?
I am thinking of a cargo ship in the vein of a carrack, but despite quite a bit of research I was unable to find out typical sleep arrangements.
I know that captains tend to have a bigger, better ...
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The history of finding longitude [closed]
If early sailors calculated that travelling for 1 hour was equal to 15 degrees by using clocks . Was speed relevant to this calculation?
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