Some new photo's of US Navy Navigation timepieces

[River Rat]

Here are some WW2 US Navy Navigation instruments. Just added the WW2 era US Naval chart brings back memories when on the bridge when boatswain mate of the watch I remember looking at the chart on the bridge to see were we were. The chronometer a Hamilton model 22 the pocket watch a Hamilton 2974B comparing watch.




A black and white photo to give that WW2 era feel.

[moishlashen]

Good stuff Mike.

[unixshrk]

Good stuff Mike.

What he said

[River Rat]

What's cool about the chart you look at all the name changed since WW2 like there is no more French Indochina and Korea is now two separate countries and there is probably more the more you look at it.

[River Rat]

Kind of funny to look at New Guinea on the chart we lost a relative there on my Dads side of the Family in WW2.

[River Rat]

All those numbers you see all over on the chart are the fathoms marks those shows how deep the water is helps to prevent the ship from going aground some thing you don't want to do. I remember when the USS Enterprise went aground going into Alameda when it was home ported there I guess the chart did not help the Navigator or the Pilot that time.

[moishlashen]

What's cool about the chart you look at all the name changed since WW2 like there is no more French Indochina and Korea is now two separate countries and there is probably more the more you look at it.

Yep-I've been all over that map multiple times.

Kind of funny to look at New Guinea on the chart we lost a relative there on my Dads side of the Family in WW2.

Here too-there's moishlashen family blood spilt all over the world and a lot on that map specifically.

[JBZ]

Nifty. I think that Hamilton was the inspiration for the Equation of Time deck watch RGM did a few years ago.

[River Rat]

Here is a shot of the US Naval chart

[moishlashen]

I can see Inchon!

[Henryj]

Huh. My dad was a BM in WW2 and sailed on and under some of those waters.

[AntonioPD]

Very cool; thanks for your service!

[Minordamage]

Very cool piece. Funny to think how we just GPS it nowadays. That is a special piece of history.

Josh

[moishlashen]

Very cool piece. Funny to think how we just GPS it nowadays. That is a special piece of history.

Josh

Reminds me of when I was on Diego Garcia for a year-during that time a squadron of B52's landed there and stayed for a week or so. I got to take a tour of one and there were about a million of these black and white analog guages etc-and in the middle of all that was this little tiny colorful GPS unit they relied on almost exclusively .

[River Rat]

Well I got the chart framed and hanging by my kitchen table next to a couple ships clocks.



I like this dangerous ground you don't want to go this way


And were I went across the equator 84 degrees at 0 longitude were I became a shellback on the USS Proteus the more I look at this the more cool stuff I see.

The old pro as we use to call this ship you never want to go across the equator on a ship with work shops they make a lot of things that make going over the equator not so fun. This was built in the 1940's was in Tokyo Harbor at the surrender ceremony they cut the sucker in half and put in a missile brake with tri-crane in the 1960's and she worked on into the 1990's the Navy got there monies worth out of this one. Then used her for target practice now here would be a cool one to dive on if it is not to deep.

[SCM64]

Great stuff Mike, and good thread guys