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Welcome to our selection of antique 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.
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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NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT
NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT
Antique Harpoon depth sounding machine by T. Walker. SOLD.
NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 9
NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT No. 9
Antique boxwood & brass navigators parallel rule.
NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT
NAVIGATIONAL INSTRUMENT
Antique artificial horizon by Dolland, London. SOLD.
ANTIQUE NAVIGATION INSTRUMENT
ANTIQUE NAVIGATION INSTRUMENT
Antique ship's depth sounding lead.
Antique ship's depth sounding lead.
A ships sounding lead / depth finding device, recovered from a shipwreck. Made from lead with an eight sided tapering design, complete with tallow hole to sample seabed composition.
Length 34cm / 13.5 inches.
ANTIQUE NAVIGATION INSTRUMENT
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.
Old advert for British Admiralty Royal Navy pattern ship's pelorus by Heath & Co, London.
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