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CAN the compasses of modern ships be influenced by magnetic disturbances to such a degree as to imperil navigation? The disaster which on the morning of June 28 befell the Danish s.s. Norge, and by which about 600 lives were lost, ought, in the opinion of the present writer, to bring this question to the front. The course of the ship should take her about 25 miles south of Rockall. The last observations, by which position, deviation, and the absence of current were ascertained, were made only twelve hours before the ship struck, and showed nothing extraordinary. It seems impossible to explain the discrepancy between the real position and that of the reckoning on the morning of June 28 without assuming a sudden and considerable alteration of the deviation on the compass.
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KROGH, A. Magnetic Disturbances and Navigation. Nature 70, 480 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070480c0
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