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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 1971
Since the appearance of the note by Sayers in 1968, followed by the publication of the table by Thompson in 1969, and having myself described the method which was the subject of Sayers' and Thompson's communications, in a work on seamanship in 1962, I have searched for the origin of the method whereby an observer may find his distance off a ship or floating mark by means of a sextant observation of the vertical angle between the visible or sea horizon and the waterline of the ship or mark whose distance off is required.