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From: Dave Weilacher (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 16:27:56 EST
Hi George;
I would be pleased to have a copy.
Thanks.
Dave W
-----Original Message-----
>From: George Huxtable <>
>Sent: Mar 7, 2006 3:34 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: Battenberg Course Indicator
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>Paul Hirose wrote-
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>|> I came across this by chance while prowling the Internet. "The
>| > Battenberg Course Indicator was invented in 1892 by Captain H. S. H.
>| > Prince Louis of Battenberg, G.C.B., afterwards Admiral-of-the-Fleet The
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>| At that same site there's a short bio on the inventor, Battenberg. He
>| was Austrian by birth, which didn't prevent him from having a highly
>| distinguished career in the Royal Navy. That is, until the outbreak of
>| war in 1914. Later he took the surname Mountbatten.
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>| http://www.gwpda.org/bio/b/batnburg.html
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>| Getting back to the device itself, I found that The National Maritime
>| Museum in London has one:
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>http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.6192/Battenbergs-course-indicator-Mark-III.html
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>| So does the Smithsonian:
>| http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/navigation/object.cfm?recordnumber=1087634
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>| According to that page, list member Peter Ifland did a writeup on the
>| Course Indicator in Navigation News back in 2000.
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>| Here's one for sale, price 475 Euros. Either this one is a different
>| variant, or there's a lot of stuff missing.
>| http://www.regiozeist.nl/eng_scheeps_instrumenten.htm
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>I have a copy of the RIN's Navigation News for November/December 2000, on page 14 of which is an
>article by Gloria C Clifton and Peter Ifland entitled "A slice of history: The Battenberg course
>indicator". Gloria is curator of navigational instruments at Greenwich maritime museum, and now is
>the museum's director, I understand. Peter is an occasional Nav-L contributor, and author of "Taking
>the stars" (about sextants, etc) , and a co-author of "Line of position navigation", recently
>discussed here in relation to Sumner lines.
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>The instrument is nicely explained, as you would expect from those authors, with a clear diagram. It
>occupies two A4 pages, which I am happy to scan if requested and send to individual email addresses.
>Just ask. Don't expect a response within10 days or so, however.
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>George.
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>contact George Huxtable at
>or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
>or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
Dave Weilacher
.IBM AS400 RPG Senior Programmer Analyst/Project Leader
.USCG Master lic. 100 ton
.ASA Sailing Instructor Evaluator
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