Marine Brass Hour Glass by Nairne
Hourglass by Nairne. from the HMS Amelia
Type of object:
Timekeeper & Sundial & Compass & Barograpf
Time period:
Britain rules the waves + France
Place:
London
Date:
1812
Maker / Author:
Nairne
Publisher / Printer:
Nairne
Dimensions:
Material:
Brass Glass and Sand
Graduation:
now it runs 30 sec, but a lot of sand was lost
Inscription:
Nairne Cornhill London
H.M.S. Amelia 1812
Provenance:
England, used on the HMS Amelia
References:
Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851 p196
Description
A rare brass hourglass, that probably initially ran 30 min, to measure the watches.
1812 mounted on the Amelia, but probably production was earlier as Nairne worked in Cornhill, London from 1753 till 1793 (died in 1806)
HMS Amelia. She spent 20 years in the Royal Navy, participating in numerous actions in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, capturing a number of prizes, and serving on anti-smuggling and anti-slavery patrols. Her most notable action was her intense and bloody, but inconclusive, fight with Aréthuse in 1813. Amelia was broken up in December 1816.
So probably this hourglass survived the fight with Aréthuse in 1813.
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