A RARE PORTABLE INSTRUCTIONAL PILOT BOARD NAVIGATION SET, English, 1860-70
A RARE PORTABLE INSTRUCTIONAL "PILOT BOARD" NAVIGATION SET, English, 1860-70,
made by DROOSTEN ALLEN & Co., 126 STRAND, LONDON the pine travelling case with hinged lid opening to inner surface mounted with small brass makers plaque and a lithographed International Code of Signals flag card, a small japanned wood tray of twenty-one model vessels, each balsa core faced with printed paper, named Steamer, Brigantine, Schooner, Tug, Sloop etc.; brass pivoting spars for sail-setting and red/green port-and-starboard slides; four Admiralty in-shore charts (mounted on mahogany-edged boards, 44 × 34 cm):
1) Poole to Christchurch and the Isle of Wight (Survey 1841, published 1853)
2) Southampton Water (Survey 1846)
3) Owers with Selsey Bill (Survey 1846)
4) Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour (Survey 1841)
the case 8 x 48 x 41cm (3 1/8 x 19 x 16in).
These boxed outfits were supplied to naval colleges, Trinity House pilot schools and yacht clubs as hands-on aids for teaching sail-handling, collision rules and coastal pilotage; complete examples retaining both their model fleet and original charts are now scarce.
A RARE PORTABLE INSTRUCTIONAL "PILOT BOARD" NAVIGATION SET, English, 1860-70,
made by DROOSTEN ALLEN & Co., 126 STRAND, LONDON the pine travelling case with hinged lid opening to inner surface mounted with small brass makers plaque and a lithographed International Code of Signals flag card, a small japanned wood tray of twenty-one model vessels, each balsa core faced with printed paper, named Steamer, Brigantine, Schooner, Tug, Sloop etc.; brass pivoting spars for sail-setting and red/green port-and-starboard slides; four Admiralty in-shore charts (mounted on mahogany-edged boards, 44 × 34 cm):
1) Poole to Christchurch and the Isle of Wight (Survey 1841, published 1853)
2) Southampton Water (Survey 1846)
3) Owers with Selsey Bill (Survey 1846)
4) Entrance to Portsmouth Harbour (Survey 1841)
the case 8 x 48 x 41cm (3 1/8 x 19 x 16in).
These boxed outfits were supplied to naval colleges, Trinity House pilot schools and yacht clubs as hands-on aids for teaching sail-handling, collision rules and coastal pilotage; complete examples retaining both their model fleet and original charts are now scarce.
