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Description: | PATT 196Z3 BINNACLE // No 6027 // H.H.
PATT. 0195A No. 6247.H
STEERING PRISM PATT. 1951
Liquid Compass and Binnacle
Bowl: Dia. 8.25" (21.0 cm) Grey painted brass, filler plug at side, expansion chamber at base incorporated with glazed bottom of bowl. Inside of bowl painted white with a black wire lubber pointer projecting from the side of the bowl. Mounted in a grey painted brass gimbal ring 9.75" (24.8 cm) dia.
Card: Dia. 6.0" 915.2 cm) Black painted mica with white outer rim with white markings, graduated to eight points and quadrantally in degrees with a second set of mirror graduations for use with azimuth mirror
Needle: Unsighted
Pivot: Unsighted
Azimuth circle: Dia. 8.4" (21.3 cm) Grey painted brass circle of the "Large prism" type
Binnacle: Dia. at top 11.25" (28.6 cm) Dia at base 14" (35.5 cm) Varnished wood with brass fittings. Fitted with clinometer, sphere brackets and spheres. 'Flinders bar' 24.25" (61.5 cm) long. Four corrector coils. Two wooden doors give access to fore-and-aft and athwartship corrector magnet racks and bucket for vertical corrector magnets.
Hood: Grey painted brass with a large glazed oval aperture with lid on one side, a slit with sliding shutter on the other side. There is a round aperture with a cover at the top. Fitted with an oil lamp bracker at side (lamp missing).
O.A. height 53" 9134.6 cm)
Diameter 210mm.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | liquid compasses | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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