Coastal Navigation in the Mid-20<sup>th</sup> Century

Kemp, John T.; Bechley, Mike; Lyon, Peter; Sellers, T. Duncan; Thirslund, Søren

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Collision Avoidance In the 1960s – Mike Bechley1

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“…In the Nevasa , we were steaming south towards Copenhagen in 1970. South of Anholt, in dense fog and following the NEMEDRI routes (North European, Mediterranean Danger Route Instructions, Kemp et al, 2011). I was the 0001 to 0400 watchkeeper, with the Master, Cadet, Quartermaster and Look-out all on the (comparatively) small bridge.…”

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Collision Avoidance at Sea in the Mid-20th Century

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In the middle years of the 20th Century, few merchant ships were fitted with radar and, on those that were, shipmasters often looked upon it as a distraction from a watchkeeper's proper duties rather than as a useful aid to navigation.For shipmasters of that persuasion, the only place to keep watch was outside the wheelhouse on an exposed bridge wing; mostly the starboard wing because the COLREGS (‘Collision Regulations’ or, more properly, ‘The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea’) required us to give way to ships approaching from the starboard side. Well, the bridge wing was an attractive place to spend a few hours on a calm, tropical night, but it could be highly disagreeable and sometimes, I thought, actually dangerous, in a North Atlantic rainstorm.

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Section: Collision Avoidance In the 1960s – Mike Bechleymentioning

confidence: 99%