1889 New York - Canso Cables. Chart No 8A. America - East Coast. Block Id. to Great Egg Hr including Long Island Sound. From the United States Coast survey. Published in 1852. (Corrected to 1886).

Scale circa 1:400,000 (bar). Bound in 1889 New York - Canso Cables Folder. Chart No 8A. Black and white chart. Lights coloured. Soundings in fathoms. Abbreviations Identification Panel. Tides Table. Mss cable routes marked in red and green. Black No 632 on the reverse of the chart. Two insets. A) Fisher Island - Sound, Scale 1: 40,000. B) Little Egg Harbour, Scale 1:60, 000 (bar).

Object Details

ID: PIR246:2/149
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: HM Admiralty; Walker, J. & C.
Date made: 1857; 1887
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall sheet dimensions: 68.5 cm x 101.5 cm; Between neat lines: 63 cm x 97 cm