A sextant used in the rescue of Titanic survivors will be sold at auction in the U.K. later this month. The sextant belonged to Sir Arthur Rostron, captain of the rescue ship Carpathia, who was ...

Polished brass sextant, diamond-pattern frame type, with polished brass limb wooden handle and threaded hole for stand with shaped mahogany case by Troughton and Simms, Fleet St., City of London, ...

Brass sextant by Jesse Ramsden, in fitted mahogany keystone case, made 1770-75, Piccadilly, London. Sextant has polished brass 120° scale (-2° to 136°) with 20' divisions and brass vernier (30"), ...