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Two sample pages of the 2002 Nautical Almanac. The Nautical Almanac has been the familiar name for a series of official British almanacs published under various titles since the first issue of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for 1767: [1] this was the first nautical almanac to contain data dedicated to the convenient determination of longitude at sea.
Meanwhile, the Reeds Nautical Almanac, published by Adlard Coles Nautical, has been in print since 1932, and in 1944 was used by landing craft involved in the Normandy landings. [ 5 ] The "Air Almanac" of the United States and Great Britain tabulates celestial coordinates for 10-minute intervals for use in aerial navigation .
Ankh-Morpork Almanack and Book of Days, from various Discworld novels (a version has been published as The Discworld Almanak) Gray's Sports Almanac , featured in Back to the Future Part II Klepp's Almenak , a travel guide to the islands of the Abarat from The Books of Abarat novels by Clive Barker
His Majesty's Nautical Almanac Office (HMNAO), now part of the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, was established in 1832 on the site of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (ROG), where The Nautical Almanac had been published since 1767.
A Naval History of the American Revolution. Vol. II. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 2613121. Beach, Edward L. (1986). The United States Navy 200 Years. New York: H. Holt. ISBN 978-0-03-044711-2. OCLC 12104038. Cooper, James Fenimore (1856). History of the Navy of the United States of America. New York: Stringer & Townsend. OCLC 197401914.
He was then promoted to Second Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Personnel in 1974, with the rank of full admiral from 8 September 1974; [1] and then Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1976 to May 1979 when he retired. [2] [3] Between 1980 and 1982 he was Chairman of the Royal Navy Club of 1765 & 1785 (United in 1889). [4]
The Naval Annual was a periodical that provided considerable text and graphic information (largely concerning the British Royal Navy) which had previously been obtainable only by consulting a wide range of often foreign language publications. [1] During its life it underwent a number of title changes.
Naval History is a bimonthly magazine published by the United States Naval Institute since 1987. The 72-page publication includes feature articles spanning the course of naval history written by significant scholars of their subject but also has standing features, including "Looking Back," "On Our Scope," "Naval History News," "Book Reviews," and "Museum Report."