Directions for sailing into Rhode Island Harbour and the Sound of Long Island [and] To sail through Martha's Vineyard Sound.

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Directions for sailing into Rhode Island Harbour and the Sound of Long Island [and] To sail through Martha's Vineyard Sound.

Two sheets. Ms. Scale: ca. 1:55 000 (bar). A pilotage sketch, in ink. The title is written overleaf: The Soundings of the Seakonnet Passage Rhode Island. Shows fortifications and the anchorages of the Kingfisher, the Mermaid and the Alarm galley. Bar scale in unspecified miles. Drawn on paper with GR and lion watermarks. On the back is a very faint pencil plan of seven vessels between two banks.

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Object Details

ID:	HNS86*B
Type:	Chart
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet; Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet
Date made:	1781?
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Parts:	Directions for sailing into Rhode Island Harbour and the Sound of Long Island [and] To sail through Martha's Vineyard Sound. (Chart) Directions for sailing into Rhode Island Harbour and the Sound of Long Island [and] To sail through Martha's Vineyard Sound. (Chart) (HNS86A) Directions for sailing into Rhode Island Harbour and the Sound of Long Island [and] To sail through Martha's Vineyard Sound. (Chart) (HNS86B)