Accession No

2497

Brief Description

slate board for recording navigation information on a ship, 19th Century

Origin

Maker

Class

navigation

Earliest Date

1800

Latest Date

1900

Inscription Date

Material

stone (slate); wood (mahogany); metal (brass)

Dimensions

length 455mm; breadth 260mm; thickness 30mm

Special Collection

Provenance

Purchased from Historical Technology Inc., Massachusetts, USA; Catalogue 117, no. 167., 01/1979.

Inscription

‘H K F Courses Winds LW’ (headed columns)

Description Notes

Slate board for recording navigation information on a ship, C19th.

Double slate in double folding wooden (mahogany ?) frame with brass hinges. One slate cracked. The other engraved with columns, headed:
‘H K F Courses Winds LW’.
Column ‘H’ has numbers 2 to 24 by 2.

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