Chart No 4 (Atlantic Ocean, British Guiana and Demerara and Ocean area to the east)

Scale: circa 1 : 400,000. Chart No 4 (Atlantic Ocean, British Guiana, Demerara and Ocean area to the east). Bound in West India Cables, Barbados - Demerara, Trinidad - Barbados and Barbados - Turks Island Cable Folder, 1924. Coastline coloured. MSS Cable routes marked in grey, blue and brown. MSS Note " The soundings shown in red were taken by C.S. "Faraday" during the laying of the 1924 Barbados - Demerara Cable. Those shown in blue were taken by C.S. "Faraday" with the tube while steaming from the buoyed end of the cable from Barbados to the anchorage off Georgetown 30-5-24, and while paying out cable from Georgetown 9th & 10th June 1924

Object Details

ID: PIR244:8/21
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Siemen Bros & Co Ltd; Stanford, Edward
Date made: 1924
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall sheet dimensions: 69 cm x 102 cm; Between neat lines: 54 cm x 90 cm