Marine Compass Co. Dry Card Compass
date: label: date made
content: ca 1940
name: label: maker
content: Marine Compass Company
notes: label: Description
content: This compass has a metal bowl gimbal mounted in a wooden box. It was used on a lifeboat of the SS Alcoa Mariner, an American freighter torpedoed by a German submarine in September 1942. Frank B. Hodges, a sailor on the Alcoa Mariner, gave it to the Smithsonian. The inscriptions read "M. C. CO." and "ALCOA MARINER." The former refers to the Marine Compass Company, a firm that was established in Hanover, Massachusetts, in 1910. The owners of this firm purchased E. S. Ritchie & Son in 1951.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Hanover
topic: label: Subject
content: World War II
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Frank B. Hodges
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1990.0577.01
label: accession number
content: 1990.0577
label: catalog number
content: 1990.0577.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: nautical compass (dry card)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: box: 8.5 cm x 11.5 cm x 11.5 cm; 3 11/32 in x 4 17/32 in x 4 17/32 in
label: Measurements
content: overall in box: 3 7/16 in x 4 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 8.73125 cm x 11.43 cm x 11.43 cm