Description: Vintage Walker's Cherub Ship's Log Mark III & Rotator, Maritime, Nautical Dated around 1940 - 50's Cast brass The rotator is marked T.W. Excelsior Potentially still in working order, but untested. Good used condition for age and application, with some superficial wear, marks, dints, tarnishing and oxidisation. Also, the swivel face glass door is missing. This instrument is a recorder for determining distance travelled and thus ship’s speed. It is made of brass with a ceramic dial, with the main scale marked from 0 to 100 miles and two inset dials marked from 0 to 1000 miles and 0 to 1 mile. It has a fixing plate, on which it can turn, with which it would have been attached to a suitable part of the ship, typically the taffrail, the rail at the stern of a ship. As a result, this type of log was often called a taffrail log. The recorder would have been connected to a rotor that was towed behind the ship. The revolutions of the rotor registered on the indicator, thus measuring the distance travelled. For this model, 900 revolutions of the rotor registered as 1 nautical mile. Thomas Ferdinand Walker (1837–1921) first patented the Cherub log in 1878 (no. 4369). It was one of the first logs in which the recorder was placed on board the ship rather than being part of the rotor. The Cherub Mark III series proved to be very successful and was produced in great numbers between 1930 and 1994.
Price: 85 GBP
Location: Matlock
End Time: 2024-11-23T13:21:39.000Z
Shipping Cost: 58.85 GBP
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Primary Material: Brass
Military Branch: British Merchant Navy
Object Type: Walker's Cherub Ship's Log Mark III & Rotator, Maritime,
Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
Time Period, War: WWII
Country/Region: United Kingdom
Maker: Thomas Walker & Sons Ltd
