NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS

Welcome to our selection of antique navigation instruments.

This category is for navigation instruments that don't fit into any of our other specific categories: antique sextant, antique octant, ship logs, compass binnacles. In the antique navigation instrument category you will find Station pointers, parallel rules, sounding leads, pelorus, rolling rules etc.

Below is our selection of antique navigation instruments.

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ANTIQUE SEXTANTS

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NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 1

Antique ships Pelorus, Royal Navy / British Admiralty pattern.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 5

Antique ebony & brass navigators parallel rule.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 8

Antique brass rolling rule by Aston Mander & Co, London. 1940.

ANTIQUE OCTANTS

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NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 14

Antique protractor by Troughton & Simms, London.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 2

Antique Station pointer by Henry Hughes.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 17

Antique ebony and brass rolling rule by Newton & Co, London.

ANTIQUE TELECOPES

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ANTIQUE COMPASS BINNACLES

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NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 6

Antique brass rolling rule by UWW Makers, Birmingham.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 4

Antique Wigzell's Patent Sea Sounding Instrument.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 7

Antique ebony & brass navigators parallel rule.

ANTIQUE SHIP & YACHT LOGS

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NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 22

A ships course plotter or bearing plate by Lilley & Son, London.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 10

A Clipper ship weather glass or storm glass.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 18

Antique ebony and brass rolling rule by G. Lee & Son, Portsmouth.

ANTIQUE CHARTS

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NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 20

A triple action parallel rule by Hezzanith, Field's / Hill's Patent.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 21

An early brass ships course plotter or bearing plate.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 11

Antique Paget Angle Sextant by H.Hughes, London.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 16

Antique ebony & brass navigators parallel rule.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 3

Antique single arm protractor by Stanley, London.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 19

Antique Captain Field's boxwood & brass navigators parallel rule.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT

Antique Harpoon depth sounding machine by T. Walker. SOLD.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 9

Antique boxwood & brass navigators parallel rule.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT

Antique artificial horizon by Dolland, London. SOLD.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 23

Antique ships compass bearing plate / pelorus by Alexander Dobbie & Son.

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT. No. 24

Antique ships navigation Battenburg Course Indicator by Elliot Brothers, London. No.149

NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT

Antique ships navigational depth sounding lead.

ANTIQUE NAVIGATION INSTRUMENT

Antique Pelorus, British Admiralty pattern, bezel engraved Heath & Co Ltd, New Eltham, London, No.133. Contained in the original hardwood box.

Box dimensions L 20cm x D 20cm x H 13.5cm.

A Pelorus is a navigational instrument used by the ships navigator to aid the safe navigation of a ship. It is used to determine the angular distance between objects (point of land, lighthouse, buoys, another ship, stars and planets) and the ship's bow. The Pelorus can be used to measure relative bearing (relative to the ship's bow= 0 degrees) or be used to measure true/magnetic/ compass headings if you know the ship's heading (ship's heading plus Pelorus angular bearing). SORRY THIS ITEM HAS BEEN SOLD.