Tidkula - Navigationsskolan - Stockholm, Sweden
N 59° 19.010 E 018° 05.174
34V E 334171 N 6578959
At the top of the Navigation School in Stockholm is a signal mast equipped with a time ball.
Waymark Code: WM14NAB
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Date Posted: 07/31/2021
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At the top of the Navigation School's 25 meter high tower is a signal mast equipped with a time ball. The navigation school was built in 1907, incidentally on the former gallows hill. The Time Signal has been in use between 1907 and 1936.
The location of the navigation school on the hill has made it easy for the ships to see the Time Ball. It was dropped every day at 1 p.m.
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Type: Time Ball
In service: no
Time of signal: 13.00
Year established (if known): 1907
Year decommissioned (if applicable): 1936
Address:
Stigbergsgatan 30, Stockholm
Weblink (if any): [Web Link]
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