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Description: | BOAT COMPASS HUGHES (EXPERIMENTAL) 1892
H HUGHES & SON LONDON
H. HUGHES & SON / 59 FENCHURCH ST. / LONDON / MARINE AOPTICIANS / & MANUFACTURERS
Bowl: A brass bowl painted brown and set in gimbals on a wood and brass base. The verge ring is graduated 0 - 108 East and West and there is a heavy weight on the bottom of the bowl. The inside of the bowl is black apart from a white strip showing the lubber line. The filler hole is on the side of the bowl.
Card: A mica card painted black with white markings graduated to quarter points.
Needle: Unsighted.
Pivot: Unsighted.
Binnacle: The binnacle is in two parts, one consisting of a circular base which carries the gimbal brackets which support the compass, the other being in the form of a hood which carries two candle lamps, has two windows, the forward one being provided with a hinged cover flap: and a somwhat complicated device for taking bearings mounted in gimbals in a small aperture at the top of the hood. The base of the binnacle is of wood and carries a heavy brass ring with projecting brackets for taking the bowl gimbals. This ring has a recess cut in it in which two pins, screwed into the hood, engage so as to permit the latter to be revolved. The ring is graduated from 0 at North to 180 at South and an engraved line on the hood acts as a pointed for reading the engraved scale.
Diameter 10" (25.4 cm)
O.A. height 16.75" (42.5 cm)
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Henry Hughes & Son Limited boat compasses liquid compasses | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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