Hughes Marine Bubble Sextant

The National Maritime Museum has in their collections a Marine version of the Aero Mk IX sextant.

These sextants were produced post war and several of them exist in Marine environments The averager is wound by pressing a lever, a much better method as far as an operator is concerned. The mechanism of the averager itself is similar to the Plath mechanism. I have not yet been able to get my hands on one so can comment no further.

 

 

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