Japan - Yezo Island with the adjacent Straits of Tusgar, La Perouse and Yeso. Compiled from surveys by John Richards, Master commanding HMS Saracen, 1855, Commander John Ward, HMS Actaeon and Dove, 1859, Commander H. C. St. John, HMS Sylvia, 1871 and various foreign surveys to 1881.
Scale: circa 1: 874,900. Bound in Pacific Ocean Project 1882 folder. Black and white chart of Hokkaido. Lights coloured. Soundings in fathoms. Abbreviations Identifcation Panel. Mss note this chart formed part of the collection communicated by Mr H. Cameron Q.C.M.P. Canada through Mr V. Chauvin (August 1882). Mss. The types & lines marked in pencil were added by Siemans Bros & Co, September 1892. Black number 389 on the reverse of the chart. Black number 452 on the reverse of the chart
Object Details
| ID: | PIR273:11/9 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | HM Admiralty; Weller, Edward |
| Date made: | 1882 New Chart |
| Credit: | © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Overall sheet dimensions: 68.5 cm x 101.5 cm; Between neat lines: 65 cm x 98 cm |