Artist / Author / Cartographer:

Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty

Title:

Aberdeen Harbour

Date:

1941

Medium:

copper engraving

Size:

24 x 48.5 cm

Description:

This is an Admiralty Chart No. 3385 China - East Coast - Hong Kong Island - Aberdeen Harbour.

Surveyed by Captain Morris H. Smyth on H.M. Surveying Ship “Rambler”. 1902.

Engraved in 1904. Engraved on zinc 1939.

 

With small (printed) corrections to 1941. There are manuscript corrections drawn in ink to 1946 showing two wrecks from WW2.

 

The paper size is 70 x 50 cm. The Aberdeen Harbour plan is printed at the top of the sheet of paper and combined with title measures 24 x 48.5 cm.

 

A scarce chart.

 

 

References:

Item Code:

MA8390

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