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2. Line-crossing ceremony - Wikipedia

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   Line-crossing ceremony. The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in some English-speaking countries that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. [ 1] The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, [ 2] or have been created as a test for ...

3. Keel laying - Wikipedia

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   Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction. It is often marked with a ceremony attended by dignitaries from the shipbuilding company and the ultimate owners of the ship. Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in the life of a ship; the others are launching, commissioning ...

4. Nautical mile - Wikipedia

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   A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. [2] [3] [4] Historically, it was defined as the meridian arc length corresponding to one minute (⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ of a degree) of latitude at the equator, so that Earth's polar circumference is very near to 21,600 nautical miles (that is 60 minutes × 360 degrees).

5. Marine navigation - Wikipedia

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   Marine navigation is the art and science of steering a ship from a starting point (sailing) to a destination, efficiently and responsibly. It is an art because of the skill that the navigator must have to avoid the dangers of navigation, and it is a science because it is based on physical, mathematical, oceanographic, cartographic, astronomical ...

6. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas - Wikipedia

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   Around the Moon. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas ( French: Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers) is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne. It is often considered a classic within both its genres and world literature . The novel was originally serialised from March 1869 to June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel 's ...

7. International maritime signal flags - Wikipedia

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   International maritime signal flags. International maritime signal flags are various flags used to communicate with ships. The principal system of flags and associated codes is the International Code of Signals. [ 1] Various navies have flag systems with additional flags and codes, and other flags are used in special uses, or have historical ...