Collision Avoidance at Sea in the Mid-20th Century
In the middle years of the 20th Century, few merchant ships were fitted with radar and, on those that were, shipmasters often looked upon it as a distraction from a watchkeeper's proper duties rather than as a useful aid to navigation. For shipmasters of that persuasion, the only place to keep...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0373463311000695 2024-03-03T08:47:03+00:00 Collision Avoidance at Sea in the Mid-20th Century Kemp, John Bechley, Mike Cockcroft, Norman Jurdzinski, Mirosław Thirslund, Søren 2012 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463311000695 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463311000695 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Journal of Navigation volume 65, issue 2, page 191-205 ISSN 0373-4633 1469-7785 Ocean Engineering Oceanography journal-article 2012 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463311000695 2024-02-08T08:39:22Z In the middle years of the 20th Century, few merchant ships were fitted with radar and, on those that were, shipmasters often looked upon it as a distraction from a watchkeeper's proper duties rather than as a useful aid to navigation. For shipmasters of that persuasion, the only place to keep watch was outside the wheelhouse on an exposed bridge wing; mostly the starboard wing because the COLREGS (‘Collision Regulations’ or, more properly, ‘The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea’) required us to give way to ships approaching from the starboard side. Well, the bridge wing was an attractive place to spend a few hours on a calm, tropical night, but it could be highly disagreeable and sometimes, I thought, actually dangerous, in a North Atlantic rainstorm. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Cambridge University Press Journal of Navigation 65 2 191 205 |
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In the middle years of the 20th Century, few merchant ships were fitted with radar and, on those that were, shipmasters often looked upon it as a distraction from a watchkeeper's proper duties rather than as a useful aid to navigation. For shipmasters of that persuasion, the only place to keep watch was outside the wheelhouse on an exposed bridge wing; mostly the starboard wing because the COLREGS (‘Collision Regulations’ or, more properly, ‘The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea’) required us to give way to ships approaching from the starboard side. Well, the bridge wing was an attractive place to spend a few hours on a calm, tropical night, but it could be highly disagreeable and sometimes, I thought, actually dangerous, in a North Atlantic rainstorm. |
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