Sextant
date: label: date made
content: 1944
name: label: maker
content: C. Plath
notes: label: Description
content: This sextant was made by C. Plath, an important instrument firm in Hamburg, Germany. It was rated by the Deutsche Seewarte on 12 November 1944, and was probably used by the German navy in World War II. Nonetheless, the donor related that it had been owned her grandfather, William Bertus Voortmeyer, and used on an American Liberty Ship during that war.
label: Description
content: This sexant has a radius of 16 cm, a drum micrometer for reading the graduated scale, and serial number 19530.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Hamburg, Hamburg
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Military
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carol Nickisher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.0253.01
label: accession number
content: 2009.0253
label: catalog number
content: 2009.0253.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sextant
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 in; 22.86 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in x 12 1/2 in x 12 7/8 in; 17.4625 cm x 31.75 cm x 32.7025 cm