gyro compass

gyro compass
A form of compass used for steering a ship consisting of a rapidly spinning rotor so swung as to maintain its axis in the geographical meridian in pointing to the true north, often equipped with a course recorder so that the course of the vessel is recorded automatically on a graph which shows the heading of the vessel, in degrees on the compass, at any and all times. The Sakito Maru (DC Cal) 41 F Supp 769.

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