navigation

Part of a July 1910 pilot chart showing the main routes across the Atlantic. Courtesy of an ET member.

American Practical Navigator, by Bowditch and Modern Seamanship, by Knight advise that a ship's dead reckoning plot should be updated every hour, on the hour. I wonder what White Star Line's rules specified? After the accident, both the Capt. and Mr. Boxhall endeavored to determine the ship's...

Hi I have a question, How did the officers steer the ship to new York and back to England without radar?. Yes I knew titanic never made it to NY but her bow is sitting on the ocean floor facing NY. Not only that, prior and after titanic, ships made the transatlatic route the same way-no radar...

A question for you experienced nautical people. During the time of Titanic with the navigational equipment they had and if they did everything right, just how accurate were their positional fixes and what was deemed accurate? I was reading some of the threads and was going blind looking at and...

Hello all. I recently heard a claim that Titanic was adjusting course continually throughout the night and a final course correction some time after 11 pm put her on course with the iceberg. Sounds like bull to me, but I'd rather have the knowledgeable weigh in than assume.

Referencing ET article Keeping track of a Maiden voyage. Apart from changing the evidence of 5th Officer Lowe and ignoring the evidence of 3rd Officer Pitman to Br Inquiry, what is the logic for adding 126 miles to the route distance of 1492.8 miles (from off Fasnet to Noon 14th...