Binnacles are large enclosures to a ship's compass, both protecting this key navigational instrument from damage and aiding in its accuracy. Let's skip the former but take a salty look at the latter.

Works for the conservation of the ship are currently underway. Using tree-ring dating, museum researchers have determined that the wood used to build the ship was cut around 1360. Excavations of the ...

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The compass is a dry paper type mounted on a gimble for use on a ship. Captain Forrest could be James Forrest who is recorded as a slave captain in the late 1780's and may have captained 'The ...