A draught of the south part of England and the north of France

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Physical description Note: 3 sheets joined. Damaged by sea water, colour transferred. Scale: [ca. 1:470 000 (meas)]. Cartographic Note: Rhumb lines and soundings marked. Additional Places: English Channel. Contents Note: Anchorages marked. Unfinished chart, with an empty box for a table bottom right.

Administrative / biographical background
From the bound manuscript report of the survey of the defences of the Channel Islands carried out under the direction of George Legge, Lt. General of Ordnance and later Baron Dartmouth. The volume was said to have been with Legge in the 'Gloucester' frigate when she was wrecked off Cromer and to have been found by a fisherman on the coast.

Record Details

Item reference: P/48(97); MS 9970
Level: PART
Extent: Drawing area 50.5 x 108cm, on sheet 51 x 108.5cm
Date made: 1680
Creator: Phillips, Thomas
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London