Do Ships Still Use Sextants?

It's a real historic instrument that is still in use today. Even today big ships are all required to carry working sextants and the navigating officers have regular routines to keep themselves familiar with making it work.

Is celestial navigation still used?

Celestial navigation continues to be used by private yachtsmen, and particularly by long-distance cruising yachts around the world.

Does the Navy still use sextants?

The Navy stopped training its service members to navigate by the stars about a decade ago, focusing instead on electronic navigational systems. ... The satellite system provided a far more accurate fix than the stars could. In 2000, the U.S. Navy began phasing out sextants and charts in favor of computers.