Which consequence results when excessive salt spray accumulated on a sextant's mirrors during 18th-century celestial navigation?

💡 Explanation

Latitude calculations become unreliable because refraction errors in the sextant increased from saline deposits introducing unwanted optical distortion on the mirror surfaces; therefore, navigation became inaccurate, rather than exclusively affecting bearings, the engine, or the hull.

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