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Re: Henry Hughes Sextant (No. 5154)
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2019 Jun 26, 16:30 -0700

Jerry, Welcome aboard!

A thorough online cel nav course is given by StarPath, rrbased in Seattle WA. (NB - I was pone of their online instructors for 5 years but we've had no formal connection since 2013.)

Francis and Bruce, thanks for the 'mention in dispatches.'

Hewitt

On May 29, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Michael Bradley <NoReply_Bradley@fer3.com> wrote:

The 'drum micrometer' replaced the 'tangent screw with vernier' around the end of WW1, 1918, I believe.

That dates the subject sextant, with its tangent screw, probably before 1918.

I have no specific knowledge of the type.

Michael Bradley

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