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What is yawing?

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11y ago
Updated: 9/24/2023

Yawing is a nautical term that means temporarily swerving off course.

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If motions are "coupled" than they are not independent, they happen together at the same time. Roll is turning around the axis you are heading in. (Think of an airplane that rolls to tip one wing down and the other up).Yaw is rotation around an axis going from down below to up above. (Think of a battle tank making a turn in place (driving one track forward, the other backward).If rolling and yawing are coupled than the vehicle will both roll and yaw at the same time.


What is the connection between Dracula and 'Mary Celeste'?

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That the half brig in question is the apparently unsolvable source of one of the world's greatest peacetime mysteries in maritime history is a reason why Mary Celeste is an interesting mystery. The rationale for abandoning the hermaphrodite brig, with cargo and possessions intact, offers no cooperation with any explanation for unmanned yawing between the Azores and Portugal in 1872. Explanations range from mutiny to piracy, seaquakes, volatility of the cargo of industrial alcohol or water spouts forcing the Mary Celeste 10 to abandon ship for a rickety lifeboat that owner James Winchester had promised to replace and supplement but did not do so and that surely must have sunk, without surface traces, far from help, land and notice.


What is the name of the ship whose captain and crew discovered 'Mary Celeste' adrift in the Atlantic Ocean?

Dei Gratia is the name of the ship whose captain and crew discovered the half brig Mary Celeste drift in the Atlantic Ocean. It turned out that the captains of the two ships knew each other, were following similar Atlantic to Mediterranean shipping routes from New York and were planning to meet after delivering their respective cargoes in Italy in December 1872. It was for the above-mentioned reasons that those on board Dei Gratia("Thanks to God") recognized the yawing ship with tattered sails as the hermaphrodite brig Mary Celeste.


Was there a cat on 'Mary Celeste'?

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