A ground platt of Castle Cornett and the towne of Guernsey with all the rocks & soundings on the Inner Banck

Bound sheet. Col. ms. Medium: Laid on linen. Physical description Note: Damaged by sea water. Scale: [ca. 1:4 700 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 70 degrees. Soundings and low water line shown. Scale in yards. Additional Places: Channel Islands. Contents Note: Terrain depicted in bird's-eye view. Fortifications and other buildings shown in plan. Proposed new harbour wall at St Peter Port drawn as a dotted line.

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(30); MS 9970
Level: PART
Date made: 1680
Creator: Phillips, Thomas
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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