He became a national hero when his ship rescued hundreds of survivors from the stricken liner Titanic. Now the sextant Sir Arthur Rostron used to set a course to the site of the disaster is to go ...

Quartermaster 3rd Class Craig Warner uses a navigational instrument on the USS Rushmore in the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 26, 2015. (Petty Officer 3rd Class Chelsea Milburn/U.S. Navy) The Feb. 18 Economy & ...

The National Maritime Museum is searching north Queensland for a navigational instrument used in an historic sea voyage. The instrument is a pocket sextant used by a young German canoeist Oskar Speck ...

Sir Arthur Rostron used the navigational sextant to locate survivors of the Titanic A sextant used at sea in the race to rescue survivors of the Titanic has sold at auction for £66,000. The navigation ...

A sextant is the antique version of a GPS. And in his basement workshop, Ridge White is one of the few people in the world still servicing and repairing the instruments. “Sarah,” a replica of an ...

Kansas is to the ocean as celestial navigation is to the 21st century – seemingly unrelated to one another. But all those things might come together because of a Wichita company. The U.S. Navy ...

ONE of the navigational instruments that helped guide the legendary British explorer Captain James Cook on the journey which led to his death has sold for more than £34,000. The sextant belonged to ...

Sir Arthur Rostron used the navigational sextant to locate survivors of the Titanic A sextant used at sea in the race to rescue survivors of the Titanic has sold at auction for £66,000. The navigation ...