Navy acronym / abbreviations dictionary

[mapuc]

I came to think of an episode with my dad who for some years or so was skipper on a fishing boat.

He and me had a Pettersson Yacht together.

One day we were standing in front of the rudder where I said to my dad-In the navy we learned things like

Turn rudder to 045 counter 20 degrees portside.

My dad said what are you taking about if you want to learn to be captain you have to learn it correctly.
045 is East and east by east by southeast..is (I know not correct term)He pointed at the 050 mark.

This let to a discussion between me and my dad..I tried to convince him that in furture it will be in numbers like come to 125 degrees.

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Markus

[ET2SN]

That does bring up a good point.

I see this a lot in vids for naval and submarine games:

"Helm, steer course 052"
"Helm, aye"

You have to understand just how P.O.'d an OOD would have to be with a Helmsman to give that order.

It is a valid order, but you would never give it. It would be like saying "steer course 302.779835".


Carry on..

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

That does bring up a good point.

I see this a lot in vids for naval and submarine games:

"Helm, steer course 052"
"Helm, aye"

You have to understand just how P.O.'d an OOD would have to be with a Helmsman to give that order.

It is a valid order, but you would never give it. It would be like saying "steer course 302.779835".


Carry on..

It must be more than 40 years ago by now.
Edit
it isn't 40 years ago but more like 30 years-Sorry
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What I remember is that you say a degree with words like 000=North, 005 North, by North by East North and 010

I also remember my father saying to me..You better learn it before summer, because I'm going to use it. It was thereafter we had this discussion.

Markus