Chart No 6A Pacific Ocean, Ellice Islands, to Phoenix Islands compiled from the latest surveys

Scale 1:1.670,000. Bound in 1926, Pacific Cable, Fanning Island - Suva. Chart No 6A. Black and white chart. Soundings in Fathoms. MSS cable routes marked in red and blue. Tidal Information Panel. Mss cable colour key. 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.

Object Details

ID: PIR267:11/3
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: HM Admiralty; Weller, Edward
Date made: 1896; 1922 1926
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall sheet dimensions: 70 cm x 102 cm; Between neat lines: 63 cm x 98 cm