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  2. Silva compass - Wikipedia

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    Silva Sweden AB is an outdoors products company that sells handheld compasses and other navigational equipment including GPS tools, mapping software, aircraft altimeters, and marine navigation tools. Silva's founders - Gunnar Tillander, Alvar Kjellström, Arvid Kjellström, and Björn Kjellström - invented the hugely popular orienteering ...

  3. Hand compass - Wikipedia

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    Floating-card compass with prismatic sight (bearing 220° through eyepiece). The marine hand compass, or hand bearing compass|hand-bearing compass as it is termed in nautical use, has been used by small-boat or inshore sailors since at least the 1920s to keep a running course or to record precise bearings to landmarks on shore in order to determine position via the resection technique.

  4. Pelorus (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    In marine navigation, a pelorus is a reference tool for maintaining bearing of a vessel at sea. It is a "simplified compass" without a directive element, suitably mounted and provided with vanes to permit observation of relative bearings. [1] The instrument was named for one Pelorus, said to have been the pilot for Hannibal, circa 203 BC.

  5. Navigational instrument - Wikipedia

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    Marine chronometer used to determine time at the prime meridian with great precision which is necessary when reducing sights in celestial navigation. Nocturnal used to determine apparent local time by viewing the Polaris and its surrounding stars.

  6. Bearing compass - Wikipedia

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    A bearing compass, is a nautical instrument used to determine the bearing of observed objects. (Bearing: angle formed by the north and the visual to a certain object in the sea or ashore). (Bearing: angle formed by the north and the visual to a certain object in the sea or ashore).

  7. Sperry Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The name Sperry lives on in the company Sperry Marine, headquartered in New Malden, England. This company, formed in 1997, from three well-known brand names in the marine industry—Sperry Marine, Decca, and C. Plath—is now part of Northrop Grumman Corporation. It is a worldwide supplier of navigation, communication, information and ...

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