Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude
remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4.
Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers,
K1, K2 and K3. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous
voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. K2's first
voyage, accompanied by the young Nelson, was nearly its last in the
crushing Arctic ice. The next two expeditions saw it survive
kidnappings, nautical intrigue, and gunpowder plots of the American
revolutionary wars. The slave coasts of Africa followed. Bligh took K2
on the Bounty, but lost it in a fight with the mutineers in 1789. It was
recovered by an American Quaker from Nantucket, only to be stolen by the
Spanish. It rode on mules along the Andes before sailing into the Opium
Wars. K2 finally returned to Greenwich in 1963. DRAMATIC, THREE NATION
'STORY OF TIME'