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Description: | Two eyepiece lens caps of sextant tubes. One has a clear lens, the other is a yellow shade. The clear-glass eyepiece has screw thread on the outside of the brass fitting, the other on the inside.
The objects are relics of Sir John Franklin?s ill-fated expedition in search of the North-West Passage in 1845-48. There were no survivors and Lieutenant W.R. Hobson found these eyepieces at Northern Cairn Campsite, Cape Felix, King William Island, 25 May 1859, during the ?Fox? search expedition under Captain (Sir) Francis Leopold McClintock (find no. 2141). They were subsequently presented to the Greenwich Hospital collection and transferred in 1936 as part of it, on indefinite loan.
caption: Two sextant eyepieces | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Sextant | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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