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Boat's liquid compass and binnacle
Boat's liquid compass
Bowl: A brass bowl with black exterior and white interior. Has a black lubber spike and a heavy weight at base. Filler plug at side and expansion chamber at bottom. In double gimbals.
Card: A reduced diameter mica card, white with black markings graduated to quarter points.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted
Binnacle: A square wooden binnacle with brass glazed pyramid hood. There is a door for access to compass and a gimbal locking device. The hood has three fixed windows, a large one for observation and two for lamps, one window being blanked off by a brass plate when not in use. Has securing rings on either side.
Dims: 8.75" x 8.5" x 13" (22.2cm x 21.6cm x 33cm) O.A. Height 15" (38cm)
Bowl: A brass bowl with black exterior and white interior. Has a black lubber spike and a heavy weight at base. Filler plug at side and expansion chamber at bottom. In double gimbals.
Card: A reduced diameter mica card, white with black markings graduated to quarter points.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted
Binnacle: A square wooden binnacle with brass glazed pyramid hood. There is a door for access to compass and a gimbal locking device. The hood has three fixed windows, a large one for observation and two for lamps, one window being blanked off by a brass plate when not in use. Has securing rings on either side.
Dims: 8.75" x 8.5" x 13" (22.2cm x 21.6cm x 33cm) O.A. Height 15" (38cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0200 |
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| Type: | Boat's liquid compass and binnacle |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Henry Hughes & Son Limited |
| Date made: | circa 1900 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 390 mm x 280 mm x 220 mm |