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Not another Plath Gyro-Sextant question?
From: David Pike
Date: 2016 Apr 27, 03:59 -0700
From: David Pike
Date: 2016 Apr 27, 03:59 -0700
The Plath gyro-sextant used by the U-Boat arm is usually referred to as the SKS 3D. However, it’s sometimes referred to on the www. as the S 30 e.g. http://www.knirim.de/plathe.htm . I’d assumed that 30 was an easily made misprint of 3D, which is self perpetuating as things do on the www.; I even used it myself for a while. However, I could be wrong. They might be two slightly different sextants, or maybe one was the works number and the other was the Kriegsmarine number. Please can anyone give me a definite answer? DaveP
