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. A broken part of a wooden horizon vane recovered from the wreck of the ‘Stirling Castle’, which ran aground on the Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast during the Great Storm of 1703.
1703 or earlier
National Maritime Museum

. A broken part of a wooden sight vane or shadow vane. Recovered from the wreck of the ‘Stirling Castle’, which ran aground on the Goodwin Sands off the Kent coast during the Great Storm of 1703. Pu
1703 or earlier
National Maritime Museum

. An incomplete wooden staff and four vanes. The vanes are in two parts and are held together by brass pins. The beginnings of the scales are marked ‘al’ for altitude, and ‘co’, for complement, the zenith distance. The vanes are no
1703 or earlier
National Maritime Museum

. Wooden sight vane with an inlaid brass pinhole sight and a brass pressure plate for holding it tightly in place on the thirty degree arc. The instrument was recovered from the wreck of the ‘Stirling Castle’, which ran aground on the Goodwin
1703 or earlier
National Maritime Museum