ship logs
Nautical voyage documentation
Ship logs are the official records kept aboard a vessel, documenting navigation, weather, incidents, and daily operations.
The captain's log tracks position, speed, and course; the deck log records watches and crew activities.
These documents serve as legal records and historical accounts of voyages: The ship logs showed they'd encountered a storm off Cape Horn.
- sextantMaritime angular measurement device
- latitudeGeographic or personal freedom
- compassDevice showing cardinal directions
- longitudeEast-west angular distance
- dead reckoningPosition-tracking via estimated motion
radar systems · marine chronometer · cargo manifest · celestial navigation · nautical chart · ledger · fuel consumption · bearing · nautical miles · crow's nest · chronicle · passage of time · course · heading · waypoint · wind speed · weather conditions · captain's log
- Antarctic explorationexpedition journals, glaciology, research stations, ice core analysis, Terra Nova
- explorationexploration, explore, expedition, expeditions, voyage
- maritimeships, boat, boats, anchors, sailor
- seafaringsailors, ships, sail, sailor, boats
- historical documentsDeclaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Magna Carta, Emancipation Proclamation, Federalist Papers
- New EnglandMaine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut
ship logsoral histories
Recorded spoken recollections
diary entries · sea shanties · word of mouth · sea stories · legend
ship logspersonal journals
Private written records
private correspondence · letters home · travel diaries · personal narratives · scuttlebutt