Chart No 1B, Harbours in the Gulf of Mexico (a) Sketch Survey of Tampico Harbour (b) Part of Vera Cruz (c) Approaches to Vera Cruz

Various scales. Bound in 1889 and 1905 Mexican Gulf Cable folder. Chart number 1B. Black and white chart. Lights coloured. Mss cable routes marked in blue and red. Mss note 'The latitude and longitude indicated by the red lines correspond with American chart No 967, issued 10.11.06'. Navigational information panel.

Chart No 1B. Three charts on one sheet. (a) Sketch Survey of Tampico Harbour made in the steam ship Darcia of the India Rubber Gutta Percha and Telegraph Company, 1881 with corrections from the U.S. Government Survey of 1883 and from a survey by the Mexican Central Railway Company, 1895, scale 1:50,000 (bar). (b) Part of Vera Cruz from a French Government sketch survey and re-sounded by Messrs S. Pearson & Son Engineers, 1901, scale 1:11,000 (bar). (c) Approaches to Vera Cruz surveyed by Capt. A. Berard of the French Navy, 1839 with corrections and additions to 1869, scale 1:150,000 (bar). Two coastal profiles.

Object Details

ID: PIR245:22/20
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: HM Admiralty; Davies & Company
Date made: 1882; 1906
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall sheet dimensions: 96.5 cm x 68.5 cm; Between neat lines: 90.5 cm x 62.5 cm
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