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  • Thumbnail for Bearing (navigation)
    The navigator on a ship observes a lighthouse when its relative bearing is 45° and again when it is 90°. He now knows that the distance from the ship...
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  • Thumbnail for Automatic direction finder
    radio-navigation instrument that automatically and continuously displays the relative bearing from the ship or aircraft to a suitable radio station. ADF receivers are...
    11 KB (1,378 words) - 22:23, 13 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bearing (mechanical)
    rolling-element bearing is a wooden ball bearing supporting a rotating table from the remains of the Roman Nemi ships in Lake Nemi, Italy. The wrecks were...
    45 KB (5,001 words) - 17:34, 6 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thrust bearing
    were used extensively in ships built during World War I, and have become the standard bearing used on turbine shafts in ships and power plants worldwide...
    7 KB (824 words) - 12:00, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Constant bearing, decreasing range
    Constant bearing, decreasing range (CBDR) is a term in navigation which means that some object, usually another ship viewed from the deck or bridge of...
    5 KB (640 words) - 21:05, 17 September 2023
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    Tactical air navigation system (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    to a ground or ship-borne station. It is from an end-user perspective a more accurate version of the VOR/DME system that provides bearing and range information...
    14 KB (1,640 words) - 05:56, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plain bearing
    A plain bearing, or more commonly sliding contact bearing and slide bearing (in railroading sometimes called a solid bearing, journal bearing, or friction...
    35 KB (3,600 words) - 19:45, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for USS Constellation (FFG-62)
    USS Constellation (FFG-62) (category Proposed ships of the United States Navy)
    (FFG-62) will be the lead ship of the Constellation class of guided-missile frigates and the fifth ship in the United States Navy bearing this name. She...
    6 KB (262 words) - 20:20, 13 April 2024
  • the load is supported by a thin layer of rapidly moving pressurized liquid or gas between the bearing surfaces. Since there is no contact between the...
    24 KB (3,018 words) - 13:40, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rolling-element bearing
    In mechanical engineering, a rolling-element bearing, also known as a rolling bearing, is a bearing which carries a load by placing rolling elements (such...
    38 KB (5,003 words) - 20:14, 14 May 2024
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    High-frequency direction finding (category Articles with dead external links from January 2018)
    in the signal to display the bearing on an oscilloscope display essentially instantaneously, allowing it to catch fleeting signals, such as from the U-boat...
    25 KB (3,658 words) - 21:10, 11 April 2024
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    Compass (redirect from Bearing compass)
    additional step by measuring the compass bearing of a landmark with a known magnetic bearing. They then pointed their ship to the next compass point and measured...
    43 KB (5,844 words) - 22:56, 19 April 2024
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    Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    with the lead ship of the class bearing the name of Fridtjof Nansen. Five ships were ordered from Spanish shipbuilder Bazan (now Navantia). The total...
    18 KB (1,382 words) - 14:02, 12 May 2024
  • has the prefix "ex-" added to its name, to distinguish it from any active ships bearing the same name. For example, after USS Constellation (CV-64) was...
    54 KB (2,759 words) - 19:47, 10 May 2024
  • clockwise from the bow. See also absolute bearing. repair ship A naval auxiliary ship designed to provide maintenance support to other ships. replenishment...
    251 KB (31,530 words) - 13:14, 13 May 2024
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    the Società Ligure di Armamento (based in Genoa). Originally bearing the name Ilice, it was a sister ship to the Ninny Figari, the Sunpalermo and the...
    20 KB (2,321 words) - 13:04, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ship gun fire-control system
    automatically received relative target bearing (bearing from own ship's bow), and target range. They corrected the bearing order for each turret so that all...
    78 KB (10,711 words) - 17:59, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fur-bearing trout
    The fur-bearing trout (or furry trout) is a legendary creature found in American folklore and Icelandic folklore. According to folklore, the trout has...
    12 KB (1,369 words) - 11:37, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marine navigation
    is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art because of the skill...
    30 KB (2,841 words) - 14:18, 20 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rule of marteloio
    sail from Corsica to Genoa, a course bearing straight north ("Tramontana") for some 130 miles. But the winds are not cooperative, and the ship was forced...
    58 KB (8,275 words) - 18:26, 4 February 2024
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