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sometimes by the stars other then that i don't know Ship captains now use the Global Positioning System (GPS).
The Mayflower.
Answer The people who would use a compass in everyday life would be officers on a ship to navigate. Forestry personal so they don't get lost.
large ships
The master of the Mayflower, or most any other ocean-going sailing ship of the time, would have held course by using maps, a compass, a sextant and a chronometer.
Mercator I think
The Mayflower, used to carry the Piligrims to America, was a Dutch cargo fluyt.
Every ship's captain will be different.
You use it to get into the "ship in a bottle" in Captain Crawfish's dream.
He used spears and compass and a ship to transport to find diffrent land
No ship was used. The rivers aren't deep enough and when they became too shallow to navigate they walked, rode, and used canoes.
Get the captain... Swim through the ship...get to the alway end and use the dolphin calling thing. The dolphin will get you out