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Press release
Pocket Chronometer Used on Darwin's Beagle Voyage Acquired by National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich has acquired a rare pocket chronometer – a timekeeper used on ships to determine longitude while navigating at sea – known as 'K',.
Blog post
'This looks more like a register of deaths than a journal…'
October's item of the month is a personal journal written by Gilbert James Inglis. He served as purser on board the convict ship Duchess of Northumberland and kept a diary on a voyage from London to Hobart, November 1852 to April 1853