(A) & (B): Camp Minefield Situation Map as at 18 Nov 83. Maps: Fox Bay, Darwin and Goose Green, Port Howard. Base Map part series GSGS 5457. Printed by Taciprint RE HQ BFFI 22/11/2000 MISC 83044.

Scale: Scales differ. Maps coloured. Taciprint (Tactical Information Printing System) was a mobile printing press developed and used by the UK Armed Forces, in order to rapidly bring together and print cartographic information to inform field operations. The TaciPrint consisted of a transportable container mounted on a flatbed lorry, which towed its own 30k VA generator. The container housed a single colour Rotaprint A2 Offset Litho printing press, a contact exposure frame for Film/Proof/Printing Plate production, and a cartographic drawing table for overlay production. Operating a TaciPrint typically involved a crew of four people: two printers, a draughtsman, and a photographic technician.

Object Details

ID: G214:14/1B
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Royal Engineers; Taciprint
Places: Ascension Island
Date made: November 1983
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 47 cm x 65 cm