Lieutenant Commander Boehm is a lawyer and certified public accountant in civil life. While serving as navigator of U.S.S. Mount McKinley (AGC-7) during 1951-52, he devised the anchoring template discussed in the attached article. He has offered the device to the Office of Naval Research for such further development as it may justify. At present, he is serving as operations officer of U.S.S. Navarro (APA-215).

Articles by Richard T. Boehm

Speeding The Anchoring Solution

By Lieutenant Commander Richard T. Boehm, U. S. Naval Reserve
November 1953
The time-honored inspection method of determining distance to an anchorage is fast and simple. For years, seamen have been accustomed to describe arcs on a chart around the anchorage point ...