Signals for the decimal compass card
Date
1855
Creator
James Masters Share (1822 - 1895, British) , Naval officer
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 270mm
width (drawing): 193mm
width (drawing): 193mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Diagram showing naval flag signals to be hoisted indicating course according to J.M. Share’s decimal compass card. With inset figures providing examples of course signals.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “On a decimal compass card” by James Masters Share in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854-1855), pp.381-382.
Inscribed above in ink: ‘Code of Compass Signals adapted to the Decimal Card’ and with brief manuscript instructions for their use.
James Masters Share was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was Sailing Master in the sloop HMS Modeste on the Mediterranean Station when this paper was written.
Unpublished illustration from the manuscript version of the paper “On a decimal compass card” by James Masters Share in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.7 (1854-1855), pp.381-382.
Inscribed above in ink: ‘Code of Compass Signals adapted to the Decimal Card’ and with brief manuscript instructions for their use.
James Masters Share was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was Sailing Master in the sloop HMS Modeste on the Mediterranean Station when this paper was written.
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