CHRONOMETER BY MERCER
A two-day marine chronometer by Thomas Mercer of St. Albans, 1971. Thomas Mercer trained as a chronometer maker in London with John Fletcher of Lombard Street and in the 1850,s set up in business in Clerkenwell. In about 1875 the business moved to St. Albans to a newly built factory which became one of the world's largest makers of marine chronometers.
QUEEN OF THANET J-30 BELL
QUEEN OF THANET J-30 BELL A WWII ship's bell from the Royal Navy minesweeper HMS Queen of Thanet, dated 1941. HMS Queen of Thanet (J30), formerly HMS Melton, was a Racecourse-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. In May 1940 she took part in the Dunkirk evacuation rescuing 4,000 men in four trips.
NAVIGATION LIGHT BY AGA
A large channel marker or lightship light, made by AGA, (American Gas Accumulator Co.) on pedestal stand with a replaced perspex Fresnel drum lens. Frame marked AGA, cast in a number of places. There similar lights in museums, such as the National Lighthouse Museum Staten Island, NY.
SEXTANT COOMBES OF DEVONPORT
A late 19th century naval sextant by J. Coombes of Devonport. Circa 1895. Coombes were optical and scientific instrument makers at ‘The Observatory’, Fore Street in Devonport, established 1806. They manufactured sextants for the Royal Navy and the Britannia Royal Naval College.
STEAM SHIP MODEL
A fine quality class 1 model of a single screw steamboat, with a live-steam engine, by Steven's Model Dockyard, 22 Aldgate, London. Circa 1910. Two colour dug out wood hull with a gold line, lined deck, lead keel, hatchway, skylight, tiller, rudder, and two rigged masts. Copper boiler, safety valve, pressure gauge by Schäffer & Budenberg, steam cock funnel, double cylinder steal and brass marine screw engine, propeller shaft, and three-blade propeller.
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