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Boat's Liquid Compass
In black wooden box 9 x 9 x 6.75"(22.9 x 22.9 x 17.1cm).
Bowl-Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Inside of bowl painted white, with black painted lubber line. Mounted in black painted brass gimbal ring 6.75" (17.1cm)
Card-Dia. 4" (10.2cm), width 1" (2.5cm). Mica (?), painted white with black markings, graduated by 5 to 360 degrees and to 1/4 points. Attached to a white painted dome float at centre.
Needle-Two needles of circular section can be seen mounted below float.
Bowl-Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Inside of bowl painted white, with black painted lubber line. Mounted in black painted brass gimbal ring 6.75" (17.1cm)
Card-Dia. 4" (10.2cm), width 1" (2.5cm). Mica (?), painted white with black markings, graduated by 5 to 360 degrees and to 1/4 points. Attached to a white painted dome float at centre.
Needle-Two needles of circular section can be seen mounted below float.
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Object Details
| ID: | ACO0729 |
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| Type: | Boat's Liquid Compass |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Hallgren |
| Date made: | circa 1940 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 174 mm x 225 mm x 225 mm |