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Re: Battenberg Course Indicator
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2006 Mar 5, 21:01 -0800
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2006 Mar 5, 21:01 -0800
> 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 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. http://www.gwpda.org/bio/b/batnburg.html Getting back to the device itself, I found that The National Maritime Museum in London has one: http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/conMediaFile.6192/Battenbergs-course-indicator-Mark-III.html So does the Smithsonian: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/navigation/object.cfm?recordnumber=1087634 According to that page, list member Peter Ifland did a writeup on the Course Indicator in Navigation News back in 2000. 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