Chart No 9A. Pacific Ocean, Fiji Islands to Samoa Islands. Compiled from the latest surveys
Scale 1:6,900,000. Bound in 1926, Pacific Cable, Fanning Island - Suva. Chart No 9A. Black and white chart. Lights coloured. Mss cable routes marked in blue and red. Mss colour cable key. Soundings in Fathoms. Tidal Information Panel. Table for Conversion of Fathoms - Metres. Abbreviations Identification 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 of the 1926 Fanning-Suva Cable'. Mss signature Robt Allan Commanding. Black No 477 on the reverse of the chart.
Object Details
| ID: | PIR267:13/11 |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | HM Admiralty; Davies & Company |
| Date made: | 1896; 1925 1926 |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall sheet dimensions: 70 cm x 102.5 cm; Between neat lines: 63.5 cm x 98 cm |