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Re: William Bligh, Navigator
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Jun 25, 19:28 -0400
List of Instruments delivered to Mr Bligh belonging to the Board of Navigation.
An artificial horizon
A Mercurial Thermometer
Kendall's second made Time-keeper
Nautical Almanac from 1787 to 1792 with the new requisite tables
But in the correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, there is letter of thanks from Lt Bligh on Oct 9, 1787.
'I have received and thank you Sir for the present of my Sextant and it seems to be a masterpiece of Workmanship for Ramsden has taken particular pains about it...'
Don Seltzer
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2015 Jun 25, 19:28 -0400
This thread had me wondering where Bligh originally got his three sextants, fairly expensive on a Lieutenant's budget.
Apparently not from the Navigation Board. Here is what they provided him for the Bounty voyage:
