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RE: Lookout\\\\\\\'s Report
Posted by:
John Griffiths
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Date: May 08, 2001 03:18PM
<HTML> Hi guys,
J.T. McDaniel wrote:
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>>Most navies use some variant of port/starboard and an angle with straight ahead being \\\"0\\\" and directly aft being \\\"180.\\\" One commander\\\'s log quoted in Dönitz\\\'s Memoirs uses the colour code system. \\\"Red\\\" indicates port; \\\"Green\\\" indicates starboard. Makes it easy to remember, being the same colours as the running lights. So a target 45-deg off the starboard bow would be reported as \\\"bearing green four-five.\\\" The Royal Navy also used this system. The US Navy use port and starboard. <<
This is still in use - or at least was in use - in the Royal Navy. I would say it is fairly standard.
Also, there was the points system, whereby vessels were reported if they were off the bow, on the beam and ab\'aft the beam. In this case two divisions - Off the Bow and Aft of the beam - were divided into eighths. So, a vessel could be sighted as \'three points on the starboard bow\' - \'two points abaft the starboard beam\'.
Anything abeam ( on the beam ) was reported as \'On the starboard beam\'.
However, I am not certain whether this was a throwback to the Merchant Navy system employed - as a tradition - by the Royal Navy and uncertain whether it was used in the Kriegsmarine.
Hope it helps.
Aye,
John</HTML>
J.T. McDaniel wrote:
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>>Most navies use some variant of port/starboard and an angle with straight ahead being \\\"0\\\" and directly aft being \\\"180.\\\" One commander\\\'s log quoted in Dönitz\\\'s Memoirs uses the colour code system. \\\"Red\\\" indicates port; \\\"Green\\\" indicates starboard. Makes it easy to remember, being the same colours as the running lights. So a target 45-deg off the starboard bow would be reported as \\\"bearing green four-five.\\\" The Royal Navy also used this system. The US Navy use port and starboard. <<
This is still in use - or at least was in use - in the Royal Navy. I would say it is fairly standard.
Also, there was the points system, whereby vessels were reported if they were off the bow, on the beam and ab\'aft the beam. In this case two divisions - Off the Bow and Aft of the beam - were divided into eighths. So, a vessel could be sighted as \'three points on the starboard bow\' - \'two points abaft the starboard beam\'.
Anything abeam ( on the beam ) was reported as \'On the starboard beam\'.
However, I am not certain whether this was a throwback to the Merchant Navy system employed - as a tradition - by the Royal Navy and uncertain whether it was used in the Kriegsmarine.
Hope it helps.
Aye,
John</HTML>
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Jay | 05/07/2001 10:40PM |
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RE: Lookout\\\'s Report
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J.T. McDaniel | 05/08/2001 12:08AM |
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RE: Lookout\\\\\\\'s Report
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JohnV | 05/08/2001 01:49AM |
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RE: Lookout\\\\\\\'s Report
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John Griffiths | 05/08/2001 03:18PM |