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 ...

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 one of ...

There's nothing mystical or complicated about a sextant. All it is is a device that measures the angle between two objects. The sextant makes use of two mirrors. With this sextant, one of the mirrors ...

On June 10, you printed a short article about the hiring of a new sextant for the Riverside Memorial Cemetery. Herein lies an error. A sextant is a nautical instrument for determining a ship's ...

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 ...