Marine Compass Co. Dry Card Compass
Object Details
- Description
- This compass has a metal bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. It was used on a lifeboat of the SS Alcoa Mariner, an American freighter torpedoed by a German submarine in September 1942. Frank B. Hodges, a sailor on the Alcoa Mariner, gave it to the Smithsonian. The inscriptions read "M. C. CO." and "ALCOA MARINER." The former refers to the Marine Compass Company, a firm that was established in Hanover, Massachusetts, in 1910. The owners of this firm purchased E. S. Ritchie & Son in 1951.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Frank B. Hodges
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- ca 1940
- ID Number
- 1990.0577.01
- accession number
- 1990.0577
- catalog number
- 1990.0577.01
- maker
- Marine Compass Company
- Object Name
- nautical compass (dry card)
- Measurements
- box: 8.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 3 11/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 4 17/32 in
- overall in box: 3 7/16 in x 4 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 8.73125 cm x 11.43 cm x 11.43 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Hanover
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- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Navigation
- Measuring & Mapping
- Subject
- World War II
- related event
- World War II
- Record ID
- nmah_1183807
