Title
McFarlin, Roderick (Rod) 2012 April 16 CLIP 1
Description (Scope and Content)
Rod describes the process of “shooting the stars” with a sextant to measure a ship’s geographic position using celestial navigation, before the days of electronic GPS.
Rights (Terms governing use)
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Creator
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey
Item Relations
Citation
Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey, “McFarlin, Roderick (Rod) 2012 April 16 CLIP 1,” SCI Digital Archives, accessed December 26, 2024, http://seamenschurch-archives.org/sci/items/show/1910.