PRESS COMMENTS.
LONDON, August 12.
' The- Times cays that the American fleet ihas impressed the world and ' gratified Americans. Its great circumnavigation is the best test of its efficiency. The paper also comments on the- large proportion of officers of the old echool who dearly love Obsolete drills.
The Marine Department has presented the Admiral and each of the captains of •the ships of the United States fleet now «i -A--aefclaiicL -wrrtt copies of Captain Blackbnrne's new nautical tables and book of Sumner charts. These plane charts have now for the first time "been made up into handy book form. By the aid of Captain Blackburne's tables one chart only is now. necessary for use in the Sumner problem for any latitude, instead of # as formerly, requiring a different Sumner chart for every degree of latitude that a ship goes to. Lieutenant G. W. Logan, U.S. navy, editor of latest revised edition of Bowditch's American Practical Navigator (the standard navigational work of America), in a letter to Captain Blackburne, says: — "The -plane chart for plotting the intersection of '* Sumner * lines is excellent, and I freely concede that your method by means of Table C 2 is an improvement on my own for those who work ' Sumners ' with one position and an azimuth."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2840, 19 August 1908, Page 31
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