[Bahia Buenaventura]

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Additional Places: Colombia. Contents Note: Latitude noted.
From a book of sailing directions of 110ff: 'The South Sea Waggoner shewing the making & bearing of all the coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire done from the Spanish originall by Basil Ringrose'. The charts all have a square pencil grid for making copies.

Administrative / biographical background
The source was a Spanish derrotero captured by Captain Sharpe in the 'Trinity' (with Ringrose on board) from the Spanish ship 'Rosario' off modern Ecuador on 29 July 1681.

Record Details

Item reference: P/32(46); MS 1939-9944
Level: PART
Extent: 16 x 20cm
Date made: 1682
Creator: Ringrose, Basil
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London