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Frank wrote:

"But I will try to get some photos of the few interesting instruments that
are, in fact, on display. Even more impressive is the vast store of
logbooks. While I was helping Don Treworgy photograph some pages in a
logbook yesterday, he mentioned that this navigator, C.H. Tonwshend (see the
schedule), did a few lunars. This was fascinating since the voyage took
place in 1865. This is the first example I've seen in the Seaport's
collection of lunars after 1850. But the wonderful thing was seeing the page
where he worked one out. I think he must have done this on a bet or to amuse
himself: the entire lunar calculation is worked out in a space smaller than
3x3 inches. It's written out in ridiculously tiny script, but it's all
there. If he had done the work in his normal size lettering, the calculation
would have filled an entire page. Incidentally, his reasons for shooting a
lunar are interesting, but I don't want to spoil the fun... "

 

Any stranger then a chief mate shooting lunars in 2008? ;-)

 

Jeremy

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