Skip to main content
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Royal Museums Greenwich
Main navigation
Menu
Royal Museums Greenwich
Search
Close
Plan your visit
Back
Plan your visit
Tickets and prices
Getting here
Accessibility
Family visits
Group visits
School visits
Cutty Sark
Cutty Sark
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £22 | Child: £11
Members go free
Free
National Maritime Museum
National Maritime Museum
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Free
Queen's House
Queen's House
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Free entry
Booking recommended
Royal Observatory
Royal Observatory
Open daily 10am-5pm
Last entry 4.15pm
Adult: £24 | Child: £12
Members go free
What's on
Back
What's on
Exhibitions
For families
Member events
Talks and tours
National Maritime Museum
Exhibitions
ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year exhibition
See the world's greatest space photography at the National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Talks and tours
Salons in the Queen's House: Women and maritime mapmaking in the early 19th century
Learn about the women who overcame barriers to make maps and nautical instruments with researcher Pragya Agarwal
National Maritime Museum
Family fun
Astronomers Take Over
This brand-new interactive gallery gives curious minds aged 4 to 104 the space to play, learn and explore!
Stories
Back
Stories
Maritime history
Space and astronomy
Art and culture
The ocean
Time
Royal history
Must-see artworks in the Queen's House
What to look out for in the inspiring new take on the Queen’s House’s displays in 2026
Artemis Programme: what you need to know about NASA’s Moon missions
NASA's Artemis missions aim to land humans on the Moon again, create a lunar base, and lay the groundwork for a future trip to Mars
Making Waves: Dr Dawn Wright
Oceanographer and chief scientist Dr Dawn Wright on diving to the deepest part of the ocean – and why we need to stand up for our blue planet
Collections
Back
Collections
Conservation
Research
Donating items to our collection
Collections Online
Search our online database and explore our objects, paintings, archives and library collections from home
The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre
Come behind the scenes at our state-of-the-art conservation studio
Caird Library
Visit the world's largest maritime library and archive collection at the National Maritime Museum
Learn
Back
Learn
School trips and workshops
Self-guided school visits
Online resources and activities
Booking an on-site schools session
Booking a digital schools session
Young people and youth groups
Support us
Back
Support us
Become a member
Donate
Corporate partnerships
Become a patron
Leave a legacy
Commemoration and celebration
Our sites
Cutty Sark
National Maritime Museum
Queen's House
Royal Observatory
Membership
Donate
Shop
Venue hire
Search
Beta
Back to all results
Explore our Collection
Objects
Library
Archive
Search our collection
filters…
Search
Item Category
Select…
Item Category
Item Category
Apply Filter
Type
Select…
Type
Type
Azimuth
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass - Aircraft
Azimuth compass box
Azimuth compass box key
Azimuth compass box lid
Azimuth compass mirror
Compass
compass, azimuth - aircraft
Dry card compass
Dry card compass. Azimuth
Liquid Azimuth compass
Meridional compass
Sighting compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, aircraft: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth(course correcting compass)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth(with binnacle)
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, azimuth: compass, dry card
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, meridional
surveying & navigational t&e: compass, surveying: compass, azimuth
surveying & navigational t&e: quadrant, hadley
water transport: fighting vessel: warship (Spanish)
Apply Filter
Materials
Select…
Materials
Materials
aluminium
aluminium?
brass
Brass
card
ceramic?
copper
enamel?
fabric
glass
iron
ivory
lead
lead?
lead presumed
leather
liquid
liquid in level
magnet
metal
metal: brass
mica
organic: paper
paper
plastic
plastic [modern replacement]
silver
silvered brass
steel
steel?
textile
white metal
wood
Wood
Apply Filter
Display Location
Select…
Display Location
Display Location
Not on display
Apply Filter
Creator
Select…
Creator
Creator
Adams, George
Cary
Crow, Francis
Edward John Dent & Co.
Elers
Heath & Co. Ltd
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
James Imray & Son
Napier, James
Rust & Eyres
Unknown
Walker, Ralph
Wenckebach, E
Wenkebach, E
Apply Filter
Places
Select…
Places
Places
Amsterdam
Cartagena, Spain
England
Faversham, Kent
Germany
Jamaica
London
United Kingdom
Unknown
Apply Filter
Exhibition
Select…
Exhibition
Exhibition
Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Apply Filter
People
Select…
People
People
Cook, James
Duckworth, John Thomas
Apply Filter
Century
Select…
Century
Century
unknown
Apply Filter
Date Range
Select…
Date Range
Date From
Select...
1765
1770
1788
1791
1792
1795
1808
1820
1835
1845
1875
1894
1895
1905
1940
Date To
Select...
1775
1790
1791
1792
1798
1805
1818
1820
1845
1855
1885
1904
1905
1915
1950
Apply Filter
Show only:
With images
Applied Filters
Azimuth compass
Clear all
showing 20 objects results
Sort by
Relevance
Object title/name
Object title/name (desc)
Finding reference
Finding reference (desc)
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass (Dry card compass)
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass - Aircraft
Liquid Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass box
Azimuth compass mirror
Azimuth compass (Azimuth compass)
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass box lid
Azimuth compass box key
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Azimuth compass
Loading filters
Royal Museums Greenwich
Close
Search
Want to search our collection? Search here.
Back to top