Navigation by Sextant There's no way around it: Celestial navigation using a sextant is a complex and involved process that involves a fair amount of calculating, correcting, ...

No cloudy weather gets in the way of the radio sextant, nor can an enemy jam the radio impluses (as is possible with other radio aids to navigation, such as Loran). The sun, ...

Just in case any retired clipper ship captains are reading this, the word “sextant” in this context does not refer to the navigational instrument that launched the Age of Sail, but rather to ...

They’ve brought in a sextant, used for navigation at sea by June’s late husband Bob. Bob joined the Merchant Navy aged 16 and retired as captain of a cruise ship.

Human ingenuity, of course, led to our development of a range of instruments to be used on ships for navigation. One of the most important of these is the sextant, which goes back centuries.