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The Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP) is a set of key phrases in the English language (which is the internationally recognised language of the sea), supported by the international community for use at sea and developed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). They aim to explain: 1) external communication phrases – ship to ...
Public correspondence (ship-to-shore full-duplex), independent radio networks Radiotelephone links between ship stations and land stations of the authorities responsible for the operation of inland waterways (ship-to-shore full-duplex) 63: 156.175: 160.775 HM Coastguard Maritime Safety Information (half-duplex) [d] Boat to boat – Manukau
The U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office published its first NtM in 1869 and has issued NtMs weekly since 1886. How the information is compiled, organized and disseminated has evolved in the years since then but the NtM mission to provide mariners with accurate navigation information has remained the same.
The origins of the company are somewhat obscure. It appears it was organized in Los Angeles, California around 1907 by two brothers named Talbot [1] and possibly a partner named T. A. Hays. [2] Hays, a businessman with 21 years experience in the steel industry, was at some stage appointed Vice President of the new company, which in this period was a small-calibre steel pipe and metal casings ...
The Growth and Dissolution of a Large-Scale Business Enterprise (Research in Maritime History 49, 2012), chapter 4: "Trouble on the Transatlantic Route." Gittelman, Steven H.: J.P. Morgan and the Transportation Kings – The Titanic and Other Disasters. University Press of America, Inc., 2012 (ISBN 978-0-7618-5850-8)
Logbook entries are sometimes of great importance in legal cases involving maritime commercial disputes. Commercial ships and naval vessels often keep a "rough log", – or "scrap log" – a preliminary draft of the ship's course, speed, location, and other data, which is then transcribed as the "smooth log", – or "official log" – the final ...
Bryan Gaw, famously known as 'Left Shark' in Katy Perry's 2015 Super Bowl halftime show, opens up to PEOPLE exclusively about his viral routine one decade later
Time on a ship's clocks and in a ship's log had to be stated along with a "zone description", which was the number of hours to be added to zone time to obtain GMT, hence zero in the Greenwich time zone, with negative numbers from −1 to −12 for time zones to the east and positive numbers from +1 to +12 to the west (hours, minutes, and ...