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Re: Who needs a compass? Who needs a sextant?
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2020 Aug 19, 15:35 -0400
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2020 Aug 19, 15:35 -0400
Sometimes accompanied by a bit of color, such as the Marine on duty tapping on the glass to speed the sand flow and shorten his watch duty.
Don Seltzer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 3:31 PM Hewitt Schlereth <NoReply_Schlereth@fer3.com> wrote:
Yes indeed. "Turn the glass and strike the bell." How many times you hear that on Jack Aubrey's ships.
Hewitt
