 | John Thomas Towson - Compass - 1863 - 130 pages
...of heeling in the southern hemisphere. In some cases the deviation from heeling has amounted to as much as two degrees for each degree of heel of the...direction of the ship's head, the apparent alteration by compass lias amounted to 40° by heeling the ship from 10° to port to 10° starboard.* 70. It appears... | |
 | Robert White Stevens - Maritime law - 1869 - 826 pages
...or south. Cases have been observed in which the deviation resulting from heeling has amounted to as much as two degrees for each degree of heel of the...the apparent alteration in direction has amounted to forty degrees, by heeling the ship from ten degrees to starboard to ten degrees to port! In north latitude,... | |
 | Sir George Biddell Airy - Geomagnetism - 1870 - 308 pages
...degrees. This effect is very serious in those parts of the earth where the wind is steady and the ship is inclined in the same direction for many days or weeks in succession. All the preceding investigations have gone on the supposition that the ship was 'on even beam,' or... | |
 | William Culley Bergen - 1872 - 688 pages
...or south. Cases have been observed in which the deviation resulting from heeling has amounted to as much as two degrees for each degree of heel of the...apparent alteration in direction has amounted to 40 degrees, by heeling the ship from 10 degrees to starboard to 10 degrees to port. In north latitude,... | |
 | P E. Le Couteur - 1874 - 58 pages
...or South. Cases have been observed in which the deviation resulting from heeling has amounted to as much as two degrees for each degree of heel of the...apparent alteration in direction has amounted to 40 degrees, by heeling the ship from 10 degrees to starboard to 10 degrees to port. In north latitude,... | |
 | Thomas Liddell Ainsley - Merchant marine - 1875 - 416 pages
...the ship is upright. Cases have been observed in which the deviation from heeling has amounted to as much as two degrees for each degree of heel of the...40° by heeling the ship from 10° to starboard to то0 to port. The effect is very eerious in those parts where the wind is steady, and the ship inclined... | |
 | John Merrifield - Compass - 1876 - 152 pages
...degrees. The effect is very serious in those parts of the earth where the wind is steady, and the ship is inclined in the same direction for many days or weeks in succession.' In cases where one degree of heel produces two degrees of change, an alteration of the compass amounting... | |
 | Robert White Stevens - Maritime law - 1878 - 864 pages
...or south. Cases have been observed in which the deviation resulting from heeling has amounted to as much as two degrees for each degree of heel of the...apparent alteration in direction has amounted to 40 degrees, by heeling the ship from 10 degrees to starboard to 10 degrees to port. In north latitude,... | |
| |
... upon so long as she remains upright. Besides the ordinary deviation of the compass there is a deviation caused by the heeling of iron ships, which may increase or decrease the deviation observed when the ship is upright. Cases have been observed in... 