Charts and navigation

[Turbulent98]

Which chart compiler did the Regia Marina use for navigation at sea?
When a position was noted in the log was the bearing expressed in True or Magnetic?
Was a distance expressed in nautical miles or kilometres?

 

[jwsleser]

Hummm....

Not sure what you mean by chart compiler.

Gyrocompasses read true north.

As they used knots, I assume navigation was by nautical miles (NM), although gun ranges/distances between objects were measured in meters.

Just my thoughts.

Pista! Jeff

 

[Turbulent98]

Hummm....

Not sure what you mean by chart compiler.

Gyrocompasses read true north.

As they used knots, I assume navigation was by nautical miles (NM), although gun ranges/distances between objects were measured in meters.

Just my thoughts.

Pista! Jeff

By chart compiler I mean the organisation that drew the chart such as the UK Hydrographic Office which compiles UK Admiralty charts. I doubt that the RM were using British charts during the wartime but who knows.

 

[Dili]

Maybe some examples here can help you https://www.kartengruppe.it/index.php/fremdlandischen

 

[jwsleser]

Found this map on FB. https://www.facebook.com/groups/marketplacegenovavendicercaregala/posts/1713691962451346/

1929. It appears to be a product of the Istituto Idrograpfica della R.M.

Pista! Jeff

1939.

 

[Turbulent98]

Thank you for that. I now need to find a chart of the Tyrrhenian Sea and specifically the area south of Naples.