• Standard ports are marked in bold letters in the Index pages of Admiralty Tide Tables (or Tidal almanac). Tidal predictions are usually made by the Bureau...
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    the development of reliable tide tables around British shores, publishing the first edition of the Admiralty Tide Tables in 1833. This inspired similar...
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    1953, www.hmsconway.org. Retrieved 19 February 2014 Extract from Admiralty Tide Tables, Liverpool 1953, www.hmsconway.org. Retrieved 19 February 2014 Extract...
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    Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another. Tide tables can be used for any given locale to find the predicted times and amplitude...
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    Hydrographer of the Navy, and contributed to the publication of the Admiralty Tide Tables starting in 1833. Whewell built on Lubbock's work to develop an...
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  • he developed the eponymous Scale, saw the introduction of official tide tables in 1833 and instigated various surveys and expeditions. Several of these...
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    Tidal diamond (category Tides)
    at both spring tide and neap tide. The times on the table are related to the high water of the standard port displayed on the table. To calculate the...
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  • founded Tidal Institute in Liverpool in 1919 he produced tide tables, and was involved in designing tide-predicting machines. He was elected a Fellow of the...
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  • Spring Tide range is in excess of 7 metres. The large tidal amplitude produces tidal currents of 1.5 metres per second (m/s) on the flood tide, and 1...
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    Lord for producing charts, 'Sailing Directions', 'Notices to Mariners', tide tables and light lists and for supplying chronometers, compasses and other scientific...
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    water during low tide and the extreme modern-era head at Thames Ditton Island on Kingston reach where slack water occurs at maximal high tide in times of rainfall-caused...
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    and Daily Tide Tables". This combination of trade advertising, and information "by permission... of the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty" provided...
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    British Admiralty considered her for requisition as an armed merchant cruiser (AMC), and she was put on the official list of AMCs. The Admiralty then cancelled...
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    computations such as the US Torpedo Data Computer or British Admiralty Fire Control Table. Noteworthy are mechanical flight instruments for early spacecraft...
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    grant from the Admiralty, Trinity House, and East India Company, Taylor published the second edition of Luni-solar and Horary Tables; by 1854 this book...
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    against the tide although she tried for fifteen minutes. Even then it was not the top of the tide, and the officer in charge reckoned the full tide would be...
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    across the sun. Royal approval was granted for the expedition, and the Admiralty elected to combine the scientific voyage with a confidential mission to...
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    Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort—of the eponymous Beaufort scale—the tide tables were first published. Notices to Mariners came out in 1834, allowing...
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    and Tide-waiters, tasked with boarding ships 'on the tide' prior to landing, to ensure that no imported goods were unloaded prematurely. (Tide Waiters...
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    trip to nearby Glengarrisdale, Orwell seems to have misread the local tide tables and steered into rough seas that drove his boat near to the whirlpool...
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    flowing between solid artificial walls, and restrained by these at high tide. The Victorian civil engineering works in central London, usually called...
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    Hydrographer, developed the eponymous Scale, and introduced the first official tide tables in 1833 and the first "Notices to Mariners" in 1834. The Hydrographic...
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    Lusitania and RMS Mauretania. Cunard used assistance from the British Admiralty to build both new ships, on the understanding that the ship would be available...
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    2,940 ft (896 m) with a concrete centreline. In early March 1940 the Admiralty took over Jersey airport, to use as a Naval Air Station, known as RNAS...
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    reference for measurements of longitude in the Royal Navy, and on British Admiralty charts. It was subsequently chosen for adoption as the international Prime...
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    table and cabinet removed from the White House after the 1814 Burning of Washington, black leather sofas and chairs, small tables, two new end tables...
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    not legislative authority, and the federal judiciary was confined to admiralty and lacked authority to collect taxes, regulate commerce, or enforce laws...
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    called the 'Battle of Britain'." On 5 March 1941, the First Lord of the Admiralty, A. V. Alexander, asked Parliament for "many more ships and great numbers...
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    prestigious law firm of Carter Ledyard & Milburn, working in the firm's admiralty law division. During his second year of college, Roosevelt met and proposed...
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    While the Galway Line was inactive, Adriatic was chartered by the British Admiralty. The Trent Affair reflected diplomatic tensions between the Union and...
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