Posted by Tom Napier on April 15, 2012 at 17:35:13 user Didymus.
In Reply to: Re: Remote link Titanic to WDMTGTS posted by Tom Napier on April 15, 2012 at 17:10:12:
A footnote to my comment from the Wikipedia article on COLREGS.
". . . recommendation that the direction of a turn be referenced by the rudder instead of the helm or tiller being informally agreed by all maritime nations in 1935."
I had supposed this change had occurred at least twenty years earlier. Ransome's characters would have used the old convention and I have a niggling feeling that Nancy explains it to the Ds somewhere in PM.