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Jack Tar and the baboon watch : a guide to curious nautical knowledge for landlubbers and sea lawyers alike
Jack Tar and the Baboon Watch is a collection of unusual, nautical-based phrases and trivia tidbits for Jack Tars and landlubbers alike. Author and mariner Frank Lanier began to compile these entries while serving in the Coast Guard; they were included in the Plan of the Day published aboard the various ships Lanier was stationed on starting in the 1980s. He explains these colorful terms and entertaining phrases in plain language and presents their origins--many of which will surprise you!
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WORDS OF THE SEA TAKEN TO THE LAND
As teachers of ESP- maritime English, we deal with students who are adults having some acquintance with English, and have to rely on their previous knowledge in order to aquire elements of vocabulary that is to build their communictive skills as professionals in the business.Our approach concentrates on teaching language in context. Being able to recognize and use elements of maritime English in their field increases our students' motivation.
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Salty dog talk : the nautical origins of everyday expressions
Most of us never realize how many words and expressions used in everyday English have a fascinating nautical origin. This charming pocketbook explains the practical ship-board beginnings of over 200 such phrases- colorful, bizarre and surprising- and how they came ashore.
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The Excavations of Aleksei P. Okladnikov on the Faddey Islands in Simsa Bay (August 1945)
Abstract The purpose of this article is to present information on the exploits of early Russian mariners, probably coming from settlements in the Russian North, in the development of the Arctic, in particular, the northeastern sea route. Historical artifacts of the seventeenth century found on the Faddey Islands and in Simsa Bay indicate that the entrepreneurial Russian polar sailors mastered the harsh Arctic regions long before European sailors. Archaeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov has shown that these polar sailors of the seventeenth century were skilled shipbuilders, knew navigation, used nautical equipment, knew the languages of the indigenous population, had writing skills, and played chess.
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REFLECTIONS ON READING
The Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program is designed to encourage sailors to read books of value as a component of their individual professional development. This is the sixty-second \"Reflection\" published in the Review, and for a change the focus is not on what sailors should read, but rather how they can contribute to the intellectual growth of their small children. A common theme of these Reflections has been that reading books of merit opens an individual's eyes to the surrounding world. Developing a habit of reading is valuable on so many levels, and there is no greater gift that parents can give children than to read to them at an early age and give them the tools to become readers themselves.
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Instruments of Trade or Maritime Entrepreneurs? The Economic Agency of Dutch Seamen in the Golden Age
This article researches the ways in which seamen sailing to the Mediterranean on Dutch mercantile vessels during the seventeenth century exercised several forms of economic agency. Fully congruent with the entrepreneurial spirit of the Dutch Golden Age, seamen made an active effort to improve the socioeconomic position of their households, transcending the narrow categorization of them as exploited maritime workers. They made use of three forms of economic betterment. First, seafarers shipped their own merchandise, which they traded abroad or at home. The major role of seamen’s wives in domestic markets made the small-scale entrepreneurship of sailors a family affair. Second, mercantile ships could engage in maritime warfare. Letters of commission allowed skippers to attack enemy vessels, with the spoils divided among the crew. This option was regularly taken by Mediterranean-bound ships, which were more heavily armed. Third, several skippers, officers, and ordinary seamen opted for a life of corsairing. Forced through the threat of slavery, or out of their own free will, seamen could choose to become renegades and embark on, or even command, ships from the North African regencies. These options were most prominently available to crews setting out to the Mediterranean, with its dense commercial networks and its high presence of vessels sailing under the different flags of European nations, the Ottoman Empire, or the North African city states. The old Middle Sea provides, thus, the perfect testing ground to analyze the economic agency that seamen possessed during the early modern period.
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Noise and sleep on board vessels in the Royal Norwegian Navy
Previous research indicates that exposure to noise during sleep can cause sleep disturbance. Seamen on board vessels are frequently exposed to noise also during sleep periods, and studies have reported sleep disturbance in this occupational group. However, studies of noise and sleep in maritime settings are few. This study′s aim was to examine the associations between noise exposure during sleep, and sleep variables derived from actigraphy among seamen on board vessels in the Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN). Data were collected on board 21 RNoN vessels, where navy seamen participated by wearing an actiwatch (actigraph), and by completing a questionnaire comprising information on gender, age, coffee drinking, nicotine use, use of medication, and workload. Noise dose meters were used to assess noise exposure inside the seamen′s cabin during sleep. Eighty-three sleep periods from 68 seamen were included in the statistical analysis. Linear mixed-effects models were used to examine the association between noise exposure and the sleep variables percentage mobility during sleep and sleep efficiency, respectively. Noise exposure variables, coffee drinking status, nicotine use status, and sleeping hours explained 24.9% of the total variance in percentage mobility during sleep, and noise exposure variables explained 12.0% of the total variance in sleep efficiency. Equivalent noise level and number of noise events per hour were both associated with increased percentage mobility during sleep, and the number of noise events was associated with decreased sleep efficiency.
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Laurence Sterne and William Falconer: Soldiers and Sailors
New imparts that for many years, he has been interested in the confluence of literary lives, whether created by chronology or geography or the more abstract notion that view of any single author often depends on the authors that one just previously read. Hence, after four decades editing the works of Sterne, and more recently, an edition of Sir Charles Grandison, he wrote an essay on Sterne and Richardson, a rather odd couple; and, a few years after that, an essay on Sterne and Boswell, based not on reports of their meeting, now largely debunked, but on the fact that while Sterne was publishing his final work, A Sentimental Journey, in 1768, the year of his death, Boswell was beginning his literary career with the publication of his Corsica volume. He began his exploration in 1988 with an essay on Proust's influence on Sterne, suggesting that modern readers cannot help but bring the authors of the past into proximity with the current great writers because people now see the world, past, present, and future, through the lens they provide.
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