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Boat's liquid compass
Boat's liquid compass
Bowl: Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Bottom fitted with a heavy metal cover. Inside bowl white with four lubber lines painted on side, the raised verge ring has the lubber lines engraved on it.
Card: Diameter 4.5" (11.5 cm) Metal, with black markings, graduated to 360 degs and to 1/4 points, with a second set of graduations to 360 degs set 180 degs out of phase. Attached to a large silvered float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted
O.A. Height 4.3" (11 cm)
Bowl: Black painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base. Bottom fitted with a heavy metal cover. Inside bowl white with four lubber lines painted on side, the raised verge ring has the lubber lines engraved on it.
Card: Diameter 4.5" (11.5 cm) Metal, with black markings, graduated to 360 degs and to 1/4 points, with a second set of graduations to 360 degs set 180 degs out of phase. Attached to a large silvered float at centre.
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted
O.A. Height 4.3" (11 cm)
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Object details
| ID: | ACO0532 |
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| Type: | Boat's liquid compass |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Steger, Jr |
| Date made: | circa 1920 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Admiralty Compass Observatory |
| Measurements: | Overall: 115 mm; Diameter: 170 mm |