Laurie's general chart of the North Sea by John Purdy published Jany 2nd 1853 by Richard Holmes Laurie additions 1864
Scale: circa 1:750,000. Printed chart of the North Sea, Dover Straits and Hamburg to the Shetlands and south Norway with seventeen coastal views and four insets. Shoals and banks marked and soundings with type of sea bed. Compass roses and variation marked. Lights coloured. Blue back Insets: 1. Pentland Frith 1:200,000 bar; 2. Bauta Sound 1:50,000 bar; 3. The environs of Bergen on the scale of the late Danish surveys from which the general chart has been reduced 1:250,000 bar; 4. Christiansand &c on the original scale 1:250,000 bar
Object Details
ID: | G218:1/13 |
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Collection: | Charts and maps |
Type: | Chart |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Purdy, John; Laurie, Richard Holmes |
Places: | North Sea |
Date made: | 1853; 1864; 1853 1864 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Sheet: 132 cm x 98 cm |