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Description: | An unprovenanced relic of Sir John Franklin's last expedition 1845-48. This is possibly the magnetic corrector for a compass. The item is a rectangular iron bar with grooves cut across both sides near the end. It has a Royal Naval Museum, Greenwich number (9) or (6) painted on. The 1913 catalogue gives Franklin Room, case 5, number 9 as 'Parts of a ship's compass.' It may be part of the material taken from the ship found off Grant Point by the Inuit and later collected on the Adelaide Peninsular by Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka.
caption: Compass corrector | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Schwatka Expedition corrector magnets | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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