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A rutter is a mariner's handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts , rutters were the primary store of geographic information for maritime navigation . It was known as a periplus ("sailing-around" book) in classical antiquity and a portolano ("port book") to medieval Italian sailors in the Mediterranean Sea .
This is a list of sail codes for sailing yachts and the old codes, used until 1992 by the International Sailing Federation. Sail country codes must comply with World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing. The Racing Rules of Sailing Appendix G1.2 specifies that national letters shall be clearly legible and of the same color. [1]
The oldest sailing directions, dating back to the middle ages, descended directly from the Greek and Roman periplii: in classical times, in the absence of real nautical charts, navigation was carried out using books that described the coast, not necessarily intended for navigation, but more often consisting of reports of previous voyages, or celebrations of the deeds of leaders or rulers.
Category: Sailing ships of Germany. ... Sailing ships of the German Empire (2 P) T. Tall ships of Germany (2 C, 34 P) Pages in category "Sailing ships of Germany"
Albert Leo Schlageter: Sail training ship, launched 1937, became Portuguese training ship Sagres in 1961; Albin Köbis: training vessel, ex-Ernst Thälmann; Albin Köbis (S-712): Osa-class missile boat; Albin Köbis (571): Tarantul-class corvette; Aldebaran: minesweeper, launched 1941; Alders: tender, launched 1918; Alexandrine: corvette ...
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Passenger ships of Germany include all ships designed, built, or operated in Germany for the purpose of transporting passengers.
A guide to the General Government, the Polish land occupied by Germany, was published in 1943. Source: Marian Mark Drozdowski, The history of the Warsaw Ghetto in the Light of the Reports of Ludwig Fischer , Polin, Vol. 3, 1988, pp. 189–199, cited in T. Snyder, Blood Lands , Vintage, 2010, p. 145.