Charts Nos 1-3. Pacific Ocean (in four sheets). Comprised between the parallels of 37 degrees North and 37 degrees South and extending from the Philippine and Celebes Is, New Guinea and Australia to San Francisco and Easter Island (North East Sheet) compiled from the most recent surveys in the Hydrographic Office, 1875.
Scale 1:6,900,000. Bound in 1926, Pacific Cable, Fanning Island - Suva. Chart Nos 1 - 3. Black and white chart. Lights coloured. Mss cable outes marked in blue and red. Mss colour cable key. Soundings in Fathoms. Abbreviations Identification panel. Table for Conversion of Fathoms - Metres. Caution Note Panel. Blue stamp 'Siemens Brothers & Co Ltd, Woolwich, London, C.S.Faraday'. Mss Note 'The soundings shown in red were taken by C.S. Faraday during the laying & repair of the 1926 Fanning-Suva Cable'. Mss signature Robt Allan Commanding. Black No 491 on the reverse of the chart.
Object Details
| ID: | PIR266:3/2 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | HM Admiralty; Davies & Company |
| Date made: | 1875; 1924 1926 |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall sheet dimensions: 70 cm x 102 cm; Between neat lines: 64 cm x 97 cm |