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Compass in binnacle
The ship’s compass was used to determine the course of a vessel and was thus the most important instrument on board. At night it could be safely kept in this binnacle (in Dutch nachthuis or ‘night house’). A small built-in lamp made it possible to read the compass in the dark.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Type of item
- compass
- Konpa
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Type of item
- compass
- Konpa
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1819
- 1819
Place-Time
- first quarter 19th century
Places
- Portsmouth
- Portsmouth
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.52040
Provenance
- ...; Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1819;{HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 19/10/1819 N22.} transferred to the museum, 1883
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244692
- NG-MC-878
Extent
- height 83.5 cm
- width 44.5 cm
- depth 41.8 cm
- diameter 23.2 cm
- height 4.5 cm
- width 25.6 cm
- depth 25.6 cm
Format
- wood (plant material)
- brass (alloy)
- copper (metal)
- iron (metal)
- glass
- ruby (mineral)
- paper
- Glass
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: Navy Model Room
- collectie: Marinemodellenkamer
Year
- 1819
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T14:18:31.908Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T13:14:05.468Z