Ireland Kingstown Harbour surveyed by Commr. G.A.Frazer M.R.I.A. 1838. Additions by Capt. Frazer to 1857.

Single sheet, linen backed. Engraving. Lights are coloured. Scale [circa 1:3,500]. The bar scale is in feet and cables. An ungraduated chart showing magnetic variation and tidal set.

Paddle steamers, moored alongside the New Packet Wharf, and their tracks through the harbour entrance, have been drawn in blue and partially erased.

The railway joining Kingstown [now Dun Laoghaire] to Dublin was opened in 1834 and a packet harbour was built for services to Holyhead.

Object Details

ID: G221:11/33
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Frazer, George Alexander; United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
Places: Dun Laoghaire
Date made: 1843; 1857; 1843 1857
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 48 x 62cm, on sheet 50 x 65cm.