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  • I had a chat with some of the guys that work for the Chief Hydrographer of the Singapore Maritime and Port Authority earlier this year and they all fell over laughing when I asked them about sea level.

    An Analysis of the TOPEX Sea Level Record « Climate Audit 2006

  • On my arrival in England I applied to Captain Washington, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, and he promptly furnished the document for publication by the Royal

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Tidal information from Office of Hydrographer of the Navy, Taunton.

    Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974

  • The names of Port Hurd and Mount Hurd were given to the harbour and the round-backed hill, after the late Captain Thomas Hurd of the Royal Navy, the Hydrographer of the Admiralty; the outer bay was called Gordon Bay.

    Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King

  • So that was the way things were with him when, on a gray December afternoon, the day before Christmas, the _Hydrographer_, just arrived from Providence, slid against her pier in Jersey City, and the crew with jocular shouts made the hawsers fast to the bitts.

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • The big coastwise tug _Hydrographer_ slid stern-ward into a slip cluttered with driftwood and bituminous dust, stopping within heaving distance of three coal-laden barges which in their day had reared

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • _Hydrographer_ was plugging past Hog Island light with her cumbersome tows plunging astern.

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • There were fierce pounding hours when the wrath of the sea seemed centred upon the _Hydrographer_ and her lumbering barges, when the towing-lines hummed like the harp strings of Aeolus.

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • Mental changes are not always attended by outward manifestations, but all the crew of the _Hydrographer_, after that mad night off the

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

  • And I have never regretted one bit of it; nor am I ashamed of one single minute from the time I slung hawsers on the _Hydrographer_ until I commanded the _Fledgling_.

    Dan Merrithew Lawrence Perry 1914

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