Szczecin, Poland

Maritime and Inland Navigation League Club

Koło Ligi Morskiej i Rzecznej

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⇑Definitions and quotes

Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation.
Navigation
Skill'd in the globe and sphere, he gravely stands,
And, with his compass, measures seas and lands.
John Dryden, Sixth Satire of Juvenal, line 760.
Navigation
How Bishop Aidan foretold to certain seamen a storm that would happen, and gave them some holy oil to lay it.
Bede, heading of chapter in his Ecclesiastical History, III, 15.
Navigation
Upon the gale she stoop'd her side,
And bounded o'er the swelling tide,
As she were dancing home;
The merry seamen laugh'd to see
Their gallant ship so lustily
Furrow the green sea-foam.
Walter Scott, Marmion (1808), Canto II, Stanza 1.
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