Which navigational consequence occurred frequently when celestial sightings preceded chronometer accuracy?

💡 Explanation

Latitudinal error had to be estimated, because sextant readings lacked precise time references making accurate longitudinal calculations impossible therefore position fixes drifted gradually increasing north or south, rather than remaining exactly correlated to time.

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