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HYDROGRAPHIC MANUAL 



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close aboard 



Coast Guard 



Coast Guard station 



coastline 



coastwise 



curve 



customhouse; Charleston Customhouse 



daymark 



deep-draft vessels 



deep-sea 



dock; the dock; but National Docks 



extremity 



factory; a factory; but Commonwealth Shoe 



Factory 

 fairway 

 flagstaff 

 foghorn 



fog signal; Point Reyes fog-signal station 

 heave-to 

 high water (hyphenate only when used as 



an adjective) 

 hotel; or the hotel; St. Margaret Hotel 

 ingoing 

 inshore 



International Code 

 jetty (see breakwater) 

 keep a sharp lookout, but look out for the 



buoy 

 leadline 

 lee shore 

 leeward 

 lifeboat 

 lifesaving station (in text); but U. S. Coast 



Guard Lifeboat Station 

 light; the light; Owls Head Light 

 lighthouse; the lighthouse 

 lightship; the lightship; Ambrose Lightship 

 low water (hyphenate only when used as 



an adjective) 

 marine railway 

 masthead 

 mean high or mean low water — MHW or 



MLW (no spaces) 

 mid-bay; mid-channel; mid-river; midstream; 



midway 

 molehead 

 naval vessel 

 navy yard (capitalize if specific navy yard 



is meant) 



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nearby 



north or northern, etc. (as adjective) 



northward, etc. (as adverb) 



off-lying 



offshore 



pier; the pier; pier B; Commonwealth pier 



pierhead 



pierhead line 



pilothouse 



pilot vessel 



point; the point; Point Blunt; Montauk Point 



quarantine station 



radiobeacon 



radio direction finder 



radiogram 



radiophone 



radiotelegram 



radiotelegraph 



radiotelephone 



R.A.R. 



r. p. m. 



railroad 



range lights 



sandbank 



shipboard 



shipyard; Lawley Shipyard 



shoreline 



stack (use rather than chimney) 



Standard Oil Co. 



steamer 



steep-to 



Submarine Operating Area 



tidal bench mark 



tide station 



topmark 



towboat; water boat; pilot boat 



upturned 



vessel; steamer; sailing vessel; small craft 



(and boats) ; (to be used instead of ship, 



bark, schooner, boat) 

 waterfall 

 water tank 

 weather-bound 

 weather shore 



wharf; a wharf; Tillson wharf 

 windward 

 wire drag; (hyphenate only when used as 



an adjective) 



OFFICES 



Processing Offices are established from time to time, and maintained, at selected 

 coastal cities conveniently located to project areas or to home ports of survey ships. 

 The Processing Offices are for the purpose of processing, in an orderly and systematic 

 manner, field records of surveys accomplished from vessels, where there is no oppor- 

 tunity to complete the office work on board ship. The offices are under the direct 

 authority of the Director. In matters pertaining to the survey work, however, a 



