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Carte reduite des costes de France de Portugal et d'Espagne sur l'Ocean et sur la Mediterranee pour la traversee des vaisseaux du Roi de Brest a Toulon
Single sheet, hand coloured engraving. Scale [circa 1:3,000,000]. The scale is in French and English marine leagues.The borders are graduated for latitude and longitude with Paris as the prime meridian. Rhumb lines. The price of the chart is printed at the foot: Prix trente sols.
The chart is annotated with manuscript tracks of HMS Leviathan, one of the ships which took part in the Battle of the Glorious First of June (1794): a) red ink for 11-23 Jan 1794, b) brown dots for 5 May - 20 June 1794, c) brown continuous line for 5-20 Feb 1795.
The chart is annotated with manuscript tracks of HMS Leviathan, one of the ships which took part in the Battle of the Glorious First of June (1794): a) red ink for 11-23 Jan 1794, b) brown dots for 5 May - 20 June 1794, c) brown continuous line for 5-20 Feb 1795.
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Object Details
| ID: | G215:1/22 |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Bellin, Jacques Nicolas |
| Places: | Europe Atlantic Coast |
| Date made: | 1771 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Printed area 62.5 x 78cm, on sheet 66.5 x 84.5cm |