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  • Thumbnail for Chains (nautical)
    the practice of depth sounding. The chains provided a platform for a 'leadsman', the sailor assigned to swing the sounding line, or 'lead' into the water...
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    plummet, it is still called a "lead". Leads were swung, or cast, by a leadsman, usually standing in the chains of a ship, up against the shrouds. Measuring...
    13 KB (1,716 words) - 07:59, 3 July 2024
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    license. Piloting also gave Twain his pen name from "mark twain", the leadsman's cry for a measured river depth of two fathoms (12 feet), which was safe...
    152 KB (16,658 words) - 07:21, 31 October 2024
  • Nakhoda (sea captain) Raja Juru mudi (helmsman) Bendahara Juru batu ('leadsman') Temenggung Malim (pilot) Imam Tukang kanan (petty officer in charge of...
    16 KB (2,242 words) - 14:58, 20 October 2024
  • used in navigation to measure water depth; the line attached to a lead. leadsman A sailor who takes soundings with a lead, measuring the depth of the water...
    309 KB (38,736 words) - 19:30, 1 November 2024
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    while Birkenhead was travelling at a speed of 8 knots (15 km/h), the leadsman made soundings of 12 fathoms (22 m). Before he could take another sounding...
    36 KB (4,259 words) - 00:24, 3 October 2024
  • burnt one. As Racer maneuvered toward the other one along the shore the leadsman called out depths ranging from six to eight fathoms. When he called out...
    4 KB (306 words) - 17:00, 23 January 2024
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    Butler in Pool (uncredited) Reap the Wild Wind (1942) - Southern Cross Leadsman (uncredited) Spy Smasher (1942) - Sub-Valve Sailor [Chs. 3-4] (uncredited)...
    12 KB (1,241 words) - 08:53, 21 September 2024
  • the main event. The show starts out with an introduction of each cow and leadsman (person at the end of the halter) listing both of their achievements. After...
    7 KB (827 words) - 01:11, 13 June 2024
  • bridge constructions linking several villages around, and was always a leadsman. He loved to participate also in meetings aimed at developing the Fantswam...
    8 KB (739 words) - 17:56, 29 October 2024
  • broke over her. She survived the night and next morning the chief mate, leadsman, and all but seven of the crew took to her longboat. They rigged a storm...
    5 KB (498 words) - 12:56, 18 November 2023
  • line" < Gmc, cf ON & OE sund "water, sea") sonde sondage sondeur sondeur "leadsman" souhait "a wish" souhaiter "to wish" souhait souhaitable souille ( < OFr...
    83 KB (5,716 words) - 22:15, 30 April 2024
  • Dasya stanleyi Acrosorium ciliolatum Augophyllum marginifructum north from Leadsman shoal Bartoniella crenata south of Mission Rocks Martensia elegans south...
    55 KB (7,213 words) - 22:02, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of red seaweeds of South Africa
    Hommersand 2004, syn. Myriogramme marginifructa R.E.Norris & M.J.Wynne 1987, (Leadsman shoal northwards) Bartoniella crenata (J.Agardh ex Mazza) Kylin 1924, syn...
    174 KB (22,879 words) - 01:02, 2 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of brown seaweeds of South Africa
    32°05′24″S 18°18′10″E / 32.09000°S 18.30278°E / -32.09000; 18.30278 Leadsman shoal, KwaZulu-Natal, 28°23′00″S 32°25′15″E / 28.38333°S 32.42083°E...
    45 KB (7,066 words) - 05:12, 8 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of green seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay
    32°05′24″S 18°18′10″E / 32.09000°S 18.30278°E / -32.09000; 18.30278 Leadsman shoal, KwaZulu-Natal, 28°23′00″S 32°25′15″E / 28.38333°S 32.42083°E...
    37 KB (5,603 words) - 16:57, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of red seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay
    32°05′24″S 18°18′10″E / 32.09000°S 18.30278°E / -32.09000; 18.30278 Leadsman shoal, KwaZulu-Natal, 28°23′00″S 32°25′15″E / 28.38333°S 32.42083°E...
    128 KB (17,194 words) - 05:40, 29 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of brown seaweeds of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay
    32°05′24″S 18°18′10″E / 32.09000°S 18.30278°E / -32.09000; 18.30278 Leadsman shoal, KwaZulu-Natal, 28°23′00″S 32°25′15″E / 28.38333°S 32.42083°E...
    38 KB (5,793 words) - 10:07, 14 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of green seaweeds of South Africa
    32°05′24″S 18°18′10″E / 32.09000°S 18.30278°E / -32.09000; 18.30278 Leadsman shoal, KwaZulu-Natal, 28°23′00″S 32°25′15″E / 28.38333°S 32.42083°E...
    52 KB (7,939 words) - 00:03, 17 April 2024