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    Re: Old navigation books collection
    From: David C
    Date: 2020 Oct 5, 21:35 -0700

    Simon wrote

     http://www.survivorlibrary.com/index.php/8-category/123-library-shipbuildingFYI - some additional navigation books are mis-categorized on that site and can be found on their "ship building" page: 

    Clause 65 Navigation Outfit in the Specifications for Cconstruction of Steel Cargo Steamers  may be of interest.
    Note that a quarantine flag was an essential item of equipment. I remember in another forum discussing flag, ensign and jack. I cannot remember the differences.
    I believe that it was practice for the master and mates to supply their own sextants. But what about the chronometer(s)? I assume that theh 8 day striking clock was not a chronometer.
       
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