NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
Re: Chronometers
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2008 Mar 30, 09:53 -0400
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2008 Mar 30, 09:53 -0400
Dear Lu, > was merely responding to a comment that > a professional mariner owned a > railroad watch and "swore by it" Yes, I read some stories like this. (I think it was in Aviation Cel Nav books, about deck watches (=pocket chronometers). They look like a big pocket watch, boxed but without gimbals. Some people tell the stories of such watches going for years continuously and having zero rates for practical purposes. Nevertheless, to my understanding, chronometers were required on Ukrainian ships until very recently (perhaps still required), though I am not sure whether they are still produced. I mean mechanical ones, not quartz chronometers. They were produced in a Moscow factory called Polet (former Kirov). Judging from E-bay, they were still made in 1980-s. Alex. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
