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Description: | Dry card compass in a brass bowl with a brass lid. The card is graduated to 32 points and quadrantally in degrees, with the north and east points decorated. The copmpass is part of a set of instruments belonged to Edward Newell Harrison, who was clerk of HMS 'Assistance' during the 1850-51 search for Franklin. The set comprises a small magnetic compass for direction finding, and a box sextant (NAV1220) and artificial horizon (NAV0019), used together for making observations while carrying out surveying work on land.
AUDIT - one unnumbered part
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caption: Box Sextant - Whole Open Box. NAV1220 (Left) NAV0466 (Centre) NAV0019 (Right)
caption: Group Shot in Box - Compass, Sextant and Sextant Box | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Harrison pocket compasses Assistance fl.1850 (purchased 1850 ex-BABOO. Abandoned in Arctic 1854) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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