Liquid compass and binnacle

Liquid Compass and Binnacle

Bowl: Dia. 8.25" (21.0 cm) Grey painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base incorporated with glazed bottom of bowl. Inside of bowl painted white with a black wire lubber pointer projecting from the side of the bowl. Mounted in a grey painted brass gimbal ring 9.75" (24.8 cm) dia.

Card: Dia. 6.0" 915.2 cm) Black painted mica with white outer rim with white markings, graduated to eight points and quadrantally in degrees with a second set of mirror graduations for use with azimuth mirror

Needle: Unsighted

Pivot: Unsighted

Azimuth circle: Dia. 8.4" (21.3 cm) Grey painted brass circle of the "Large prism" type

Binnacle: Dia. at top 11.25" (28.6 cm) Dia at base 14" (35.5 cm) Varnished wood with brass fittings. Fitted with clinometer, sphere brackets and spheres. 'Flinders bar' 24.25" (61.5 cm) long. Four corrector coils. Two wooden doors give access to fore-and-aft and athwartship corrector magnet racks and bucket for vertical corrector magnets.
Hood: Grey painted brass with a large glazed oval aperture with lid on one side, a slit with sliding shutter on the other side. There is a round aperture with a cover at the top. Fitted with an oil lamp bracker at side (lamp missing).

O.A. height 53" 9134.6 cm)

Object Details

ID: ACO1082
Type: Liquid compass and binnacle
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Date made: circa 1940
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory
Measurements: Overall: 1346 mm x 740 mm x 415 mm x 133 kg