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    Admiralty charts are nautical charts issued by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and subject to Crown Copyright. Over 3,500 Standard Nautical...
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  • Look up admiralty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Admiralty most often refers to: Admiralty, Hong Kong Admiralty (United Kingdom), military department...
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    as Digitrace, Voyager, or ChartCo, to correct British Admiralty charts as well as NOAA charts. These systems provide only vessel relevant corrections...
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    airship-submarine, the Flying-Fish is hidden in Hurd's Deep between adventures. Admiralty Chart No 2649 English Channel Western Portion of 1955 shows munitions have...
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  • produces Admiralty charts, providing SOLAS-compliant charts, publications and digital services for ships trading internationally. The Admiralty's first Hydrographer...
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    drawing the first accurate maritime charts of this complicated Indian Ocean atoll group. These Admiralty charts were printed as three separate large...
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    Kingdom Admiralty chart, based on Owen's 1823 version but including his own updates, records the padrão as 'Vasco da Gama's Pillar'. The same chart notes...
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    measuring shorelines. His results were compiled in new charts.[citation needed] The Admiralty gave Beaufort his first ship command, HMS Woolwich. He sailed...
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    The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its...
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    Beaufort's Dyke, highlighted in blue, on a 1969 Admiralty chart...
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    almost disappeared by the end of 17th century. An 1823 United Kingdom Admiralty chart of 'Melinda' declared that at that time there were 'no vestiges of...
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    Knot (unit) (redirect from Admiralty Knot)
    miles on a chart can easily be measured by using dividers and the latitude scales on the sides of the chart. Recent British Admiralty charts have a latitude...
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    late-19th-century maps, including an 1881 German map and 1895 British Admiralty chart. After returning from a voyage in the Pacific, the Velocity's master...
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    Palk Strait, northern Sri Lanka. This island is named as Delft in the Admiralty Chart unlike the other islands, whose names are Tamil. The island's area...
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    Ltd. Admiralty Chart 2484 - River Thames Hole Haven to London Bridge (2013) Admiralty Chart 1185 - River Thames Sea Reach (2017) Admiralty Chart 1183...
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    by a diplomat from the German embassy in London. According to the Admiralty chart the fort's location is at 51°53.71′N 1°28.83′E. The structure is marked...
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    was formally set as The Narrows by Henry Kellett during the British Admiralty chart reorganization of 1847. Phillips, James W. (1971). Washington State...
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    ISBN 0-671-02811-1. WashingtonEdmund George Irving (1966). Admiralty Chart No 2693 Approaches to Harwich. London: Admiralty. "WHR 053 - Redgate Hard -". Suffolk Heritage...
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    very inaccessible island appears, though unnamed, on Ambrose Cowley's 1684 chart. It is important as the location of multidecade finch population studies...
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  • Rasdhoo (Dhivehi: ރަސްދޫ) (Rasdu in the Admiralty Chart) is an inhabited island of the Maldives. It is also the capital of the Alif Alif Atoll administrative...
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    Notice to Mariners 164/1122/1902." While it is absent from the 1859 Admiralty Chart, it is unclear if the 1902 sighting is the very first one by the Ernest‑Legouvé...
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    in June, and while the ringleaders were punished, much was done by the Admiralty to improve pay and conditions for the seamen. In 1804, Jonathan Martin...
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  • Kadhdhoo or Kaddhoo, Kahdhoo (according to the Admiralty Charts) (Dhivehi: ކައްދޫ އެއަރޕޯޓް) is one of the inhabited islands of Haddummati Atoll, administrative...
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    Carlos Water 23 May 1982 Admiralty Chart 2582 – Plans in Falkland Sound (Map). 1:25000. Hydrographic Office. 2009. Admiralty Chart 2558 – Falkland Sound...
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    Imperial Admiralty Staff, Admiralstab Admiralty of Amsterdam Admiralty of Friesland Admiralty of the Noorderkwartier (also called the "Admiralty of West-Friesland")...
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    in the Maldives. 1. Alifushi and Etthingili (Powell Islands in the Admiralty Chart) stand on a detached reef of their own with very deep waters (no sounding)...
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    1855 has the name "Otkiawik", which was later misprinted on a British Admiralty chart as "Otkiovik." The former name Barrow was derived from Point Barrow...
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    issued by the Admiralty. When corrections are received all charts are corrected in the ship's folio and recorded in NP133A (Admiralty Chart Correction Log...
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    November 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2020. Ritchie, G.S. (1967). The Admiralty Chart. London: Hollis & Carter. pp. 317–319. Richards, G.H. (1869). "Suez...
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  • tide, above the sea water level at the lowest astronomical tide. On admiralty charts a drying height is distinguished from a depth by being underlined....
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