Binnacles as far as the eye can see!

I spent last week with estates and got to see some brilliant things, drains, gutters, a lawn that might have had Henry VIII's boatyard on it! I also got to see a couple of the other outstations and meet some of the very talented curatorial staff.
One of the storage rooms is packed to the ceiling with binnacles, and most of the compasses still point north - the man in the stores seemed surprised! There were also a number of Nelson's swords and the table of Longitude!
Obviously I can't tell you where it is and exactly what it contains but I did manage to get a sneaky picture. Warning - this maybe the most boring picture you ever see, I was under pressure!

But I promise it was way more exciting in real life!
I also met a man who can identify ships purely from their silhouette which is pretty impressive and useful as his job is identifying and cataloguing slides of ships!