HONG KONG MARITIME MUSEUM, Deck A

On the third and last floor, Deck A, you’ll find three fascinating sections linked to maritime technology, in which human ingenuity has succeeded in developing increasingly efficient, complex instruments.

Welcome to the “Maritime Communications” exhibition.

We’re all accustomed to being in constant touch with the rest of the world thanks to our phones – but try imagining what it must have been like for a sailor in the 19th century, setting out on a journey that would take him far from home for months at a time without ever being able to communicate with his family!

How was it possible to alert others to danger, to call for help or receive news before the advent of radios?

Thanks to human inventiveness, over the centuries people have come up with the most ingenious ways – using tools that might seem useless today – that for decades allowed for one of the most important aspects of life at sea: communication.

Now press pause and start again at the “Navigation and Meteorology” exhibition....