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Boat's liquid compass
Boat's liquid compass
Bowl: Grey painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Inside of bowl grey with two lubber lines painted on white strips on side. Mounted in gimbal ring 6.26" (16 cm) diameter.
Card: Diameter 3.9" (10.0 cm) Metal? White with black markings, graduated to 360 degrees and to 8 points, attached to silvered float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted
O.A. Height 3.55" (9.0 cm)
Bowl: Grey painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Inside of bowl grey with two lubber lines painted on white strips on side. Mounted in gimbal ring 6.26" (16 cm) diameter.
Card: Diameter 3.9" (10.0 cm) Metal? White with black markings, graduated to 360 degrees and to 8 points, attached to silvered float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted
O.A. Height 3.55" (9.0 cm)
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0534 |
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| Type: | Boat's liquid compass |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Hartmann, W. |
| Date made: | circa 1940 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 90 mm; Diameter: 175 mm |