60th Kowloon Scout Group 九龍60旅童軍

25/12/2023

26/11/2023

有趣的航海故事

GREAT SEA STORY (Trivia)
The passenger steamer SS Warrimoo was quietly knifing its way through the waters of the mid-Pacific on its way from Vancouver to Australia. The navigator had just finished working out a star fix and brought Captain John DS. Phillips, the result. The Warrimoo's position was LAT 0º 31' N and LONG 179 30' W. The date was 31 December 1899. "Know what this means?" First Mate Payton broke in, "We're only a few miles from the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line". Captain Phillips was prankish enough to take full advantage of the opportunity for achieving the navigational freak of a lifetime.
He called his navigators to the bridge to check & double check the ship's position. He changed course slightly so as to bear directly on his mark. Then he adjusted the engine speed.
The calm weather & clear night worked in his favor. At mid-night the SS Warrimoo lay on the Equator at exactly the point where it crossed the International Date Line! The consequences of this bizarre position were many:
The forward part (bow) of the ship was in the Southern Hemisphere & in the middle of summer.
The rear (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere & in the middle of winter.
The date in the aft part of the ship was 31 December 1899.
In the bow (forward) part it was 1 January 1900.
This ship was therefore not only in:
Two different days,
Two different months,
Two different years,
Two different seasons
But in two different centuries - all at the same time!

Read more; https://diaryamazing.com/did-you-know-these-things-about-the-great-sea-story/

21/01/2023

It's fun time 😍

11/01/2023

THE TWENTY MOST USEFUL KNOTS.

1.Thumb or over-hand knot, tied at the end of a rope to prevent it from opening out, &c.
2.Right or reef-knot, for securing all lashings where the ends of the rope meet together.
3.Draw-knot, which offers great facility in undoing.
4.Running-knot, used to bind or draw anything close.
5.Sheepshank, serving to shorten a rope without cutting it or unfastening the ends.
6.Clove-hitch, which binds with excessive force, and by which alone a weight can be hung to a smooth pole.
7.Timber-hitch, very useful in hauling to move a weight.
8.Single bowline-knot, difficult to undo, useful to throw over a post &c., to haul on, used for the draw-loop of a slip noose.
9.Double bowline-knot, for slinging a cask.
10.Running bowline-knot.
11.Woolding or packing-stick hitch, used to tighten ropes.
12.Men’s harness hitch, passing over the shoulder and under the opposite arm of men drawing a carriage, &c.
13.Stopper hitch, for stoppering the fall of a tackle, &c.
14.Inside clinch, for fastening a cable to the anchor ring, &c.
15.Common or sheet bend, a very secure method of joining two ropes, or fastening a rope to a loop.
16.Hawser bend, for joining two ropes, easily undone.
17.Cat’s paw, the turn in the bight of a rope, for hooking a tackle to it.
18.Dragrope or lever-hitch, used for fixing hand-spikes or capstanbars to the ropes attached to heavy carriages, &c., which have to be moved by men.
19.Half-hitch, cast on the bight of a rope.
20.Carrick bend. A wall-knot is a knot made at the end of a rope to prevent it from passing through a hole.

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11/08/2022

Morse Code

Morse Code features the 26 letters of the English alphabet and numbers 0-9. The dash is three times longer than the dot when sending a message, and when separating words a gap or space equivalent to 3 dots is used. Morse code has been used for over 160 years! Morse code was vital during WWII especially for carrying messages between naval bases and warships! It was also extensively used on warplanes, especially those on long-range patrols.

Example:
Scouting
… -.-. --- ..- - .. -. --.