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What is the Merchant Navy?
Discover the role and history of the commercial shipping fleet – and its connections with Royal Museums Greenwich
Night sky highlights - September 2026
Spot Neptune through a telescope, see the Moon in the Beehive Cluster, and mark the autumnal equinox and equilux.
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
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Box, station pointer
Double Sextant and Station pointer
drafting t&e: station pointer
drafting t&e: station pointer(fitted with alidade)
Goniograph
Pointer
pointer, station
Sation pointer
sextant and station pointer
Station pointer
Station pointer arm
Station pointer arm attachment
Station pointer box
Station pointer box key
Station pointer case
Station pointer clamping screw
Station pointer extension arm
Station pointer extension arm connecting screw
Station pointer extension arm screw
Station pointer magnifier
Station pointer pivot?
Station pointer pivot pin?
Station pointer sight vane?
Station pointer small points
Station pointer vernier
Station pointer vernier or scale
surveying & navigational t&e: instruments, scientific
surveying & navigational t&e: sextant: goniograph(combined double sextant & station pointer)
Surveyor's Double Sextant and Station Pointer
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black lacquered brass, with electrum(?) scale
brass
Brass
felt
glass
mahogany
metal
metal: brass
metal: silver
metal: steel
paper
plastic
silver
textile
velvet
wood
wood: boxwood
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Display - Maritime London Gallery
Display - Polar Worlds Gallery
Display - Voyagers
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Cary
Elliott Bros
H. & F. Muller
Hay, Cdr
Henry Hughes & Son Limited
Potter, John Dennett
Stebbing, J R
Troughton
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W. F. Stanley & Co Ltd
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England
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Arctic Exploration: North Pole expedition, Nares, 1875-1876
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Nelson, M. H. H.
Port of London Authority
Royal Greenwich Observatory
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Station pointer extension arm screw
Station pointer clamping screw
Station pointer extension arm screw
Station pointer extension arm screw
Station pointer extension arm
Station pointer arm attachment
Station pointer sight vane?
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Station pointer extension arm
Station pointer extension arm
Station pointer clamping screw
Station pointer extension arm screw
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