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The Position-fixing Needs of Merchant Ships: An Assessment in the Area Portland Bill to the Thames Estuary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

J. L. Strange
Affiliation:
(City of London Polytechnic)

Abstract

This is an abstract of a paper commissioned by the Lights Advisory Committee and published in June 1987.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1988

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