Articles

Essays and Information

• What is a Quartermaster?
• The QM Rate: Advice to a Recruit from the Fleet
• What is Navigation?
• Navigating Toward the Next Century - an article from Proceedings, kindly provided by the author's brother, Don O'Connor
• Why We Almost Lost The Submarine - an article from DefenseWatch, an online journal, on the grounding of the USS San Francisco (SSN 711)

Technical Stuff

• Celestial Navigation Basics
• Morning Sights
• Review of Pepperday's Sight Reduction Table
• Franklin Piloting Technique
• Correcting Flaws in the Art of Navigation

Features

• QMSS.com - top "splash" page
• Sea Fever - by John Masefield
• Old Quartermasters Never Die... - I claim authorship of this; Dave Quintana did the artwork
• Wizard of Id - a navigation-related comic I cut out years ago