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Admiralty Compass Observatory
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'A Book of Drafts with Remarks, with Lattitude, Longitude of Places, of the
Variation
of the
Compass
1763
NVP/11
Inclining Experiments for Heeling Error, conducted by Captain Creak, HMS PENGUIN, observations for
variation
1905
ACO/4/12/3
Report on the amount of Westerly
Variation
off the Coast of Great Britain, by Staff Capt.
ACO/4/3/4
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1893-04-01
ACO/S&T/20/14
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1907-1930
ACO/7/13
Admiralty
Compass
Observatory, 1842-1971 (Manuscript)
1842-1971
ACO
Technical memoranda and correspondence from the Admiralty, 1812-1814 (Manuscript)
1812-1814
FLI/7
Petitions and letter to the Honourable Shipping Company on Samuel Dunn's work. (Manuscript)
1776-1793
BGY/D/4/3
Log kept by Norborne Thompson on HMS SEAHORSE, 1798-1799. (Manuscript)
1798-1799
THO/18/A
Flinders, Matthew, Captain, 1774-1814. (Manuscript)
1791-1812
FLI
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