Sextant Collection

Observatory at Delhi
Observatory complex at Delhi

Training Ship HMS Conway - Working with the Sextant
The naval training ship HMS Conway was established in 1859 and for many years was moored on the River Mersey near Liverpool. Here, some of the ships boys are seen using a sextant. Date: 1898

The Greely Arctic Expedition at its farthest point North, 18
Engraving showing members of the American Meteorological Expedition of 1881-4 taking their position, with a sextant, at the farthest point North they reached. Led by Lt

Hydra Star Map
Hydra constellation, including an owl, a raven and a sextant

A Sextant, 1912
Illustration of a typical sextant, c.1912. Sextants are used by mariners and explorers to determine their position, by measuring the angle between the horizon and the sun. Date: 1912

Hydra and Sextant

Captain John Treasure Jones Archive - sextant
Captain Treasure Jones Archive - a Henry Hughes and Son Husun sextant that was the personal property of Captain Jones. The sextant was used and remained with him through his career

Il Leone di Caprera. Sailing schooner of 9 meters of length that crewed by three Italians wanted to cross the Atlantic Ocean with a sextant as the only guide

Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807

Clock in marble and ormolu, made by Vulliamy, with the Young Geographers boys holding compass and sextant. Medallion of the Three Graces. Chromolithograph by W

English mariner with sextant on a beach in front of a lighthouse and tall ship. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts, Phillips, London, 1818

Dr. Frederick Cook using sextant 1908
Dr. Frederick Albert Cook (1865 - 1940), American explorer, physician, and ethnographer, claims that he reached the North Pole on 21st April 1908, a year before Robert Peary

Marine Sextant. Early 20th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Old navigational instruments. Compass and sextant. 19th-20th
Old navigational instruments. Compass and sextant. 19th-20 th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Gionitus. Inventor of Astronomy, (1334-1336). The exagonal p
Gionitus. Inventor of Astronomy, (1334-1336). From the workshop of Andrea Pisano. The exagonal panels of the campanille of Florence Cathedral. Italy

Navigational instrument. 20th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Vintage telescope, sextant and quadrant. 18th century
Old navigational instruments. Vintage telescope, sextant and quadrant. 18th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Old navigational instruments. Sextant. 19th-20th centuries
Old navigational instruments. Sextant. 19th-20 th centuries. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

Marine Sextant. 19th century. Museum of History and Navigation. Riga. Latvia

MARINER 1827
A young sailor holding a sextant points out to sea at his ship. Date: 1827

William Brassey
WILLIAM BRASSEY Son of the railway engineer Thomas Brassey Date: -

JOHN BIRD / 1709-76 / KNIGHT
JOHN BIRD Astronomer and scientific instrument maker Date: 1709 - 1776

Barnardos Watts Nautical Training School, Dereham - Boy & S
Barnardos Watts Nautical Training School, Dereham. One of the boys demonstrates the use of a sextant

Nautical Students 1930S
Young men, students at the London School of Engineering and navigation, learning how to take a bearing by sextant to find the position of a ship when out at sea. Date: 1930s

Woman looks through sextant on board a boat
A woman wearing shorts and a beanie hat peers through a sextant on the deck of a boat on the Norfolk Broads in the 1930s

Roald Amundsen calculating his position, South Pole, 1911
Illustration showing how the members of Roald Amundsens Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 calculated their position, using a sextant and an artificial horizon; South Pole, 1911

Amundsen Antarctic Expedition at the South Pole, 1911
Illustration showing members of the Amundsen Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12, at the South Pole, checking their position using a sextant and an artificial horizon

Observing Room / Greenwich
GREENWICH OBSERVATORY The old observing room

Using a Sextant
A French sailor uses a sextant

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