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I must congradulate the both of you for possessing such fine artifacts of history. I presume that both time pieces are still in good working order. Their value as collectors items will no doubt increase.

I just thought of an additional use, Wulfpak, that being to time a range.

Most Navies have nautical mile ranges set up near their ports. They run the "mile" coming and going and time it (stopwatch) to determine speed. Once armed with the info, it gave the navigator a basis to conduct his DR (deducted reckoning) measuring when celestial observations were impossible due to poor visibility. They also timed the known distance between buoys for the same purpose.

As you might expect, it gave the Kaleuns an indication when to have their hulls scraped due to marine growth that was slowing them down. The outgoing time was always faster than the incoming due to growth on the long cruise...even the Boat was growing a beard.

I use a modern German stopwatch manufactured by Hanhart. It also is a 30 min. timer.

Cheers,