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C1899
(1914)
[AUSTRALIA-QLD] Double Pt. to Cape Grafton
Detailed hydrographic chart of the Queensland coast, extending from Double Point to Cape Grafton. This chart is a totally new survey dated 21st January 1899 replacing the same numbered chart ‘2350’, first issued in 1856. The chart covers a smaller … Read Full Description
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S/N: HYDRO-2350-QLD-991415–424847
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Full Title:
[AUSTRALIA-QLD] Double Pt. to Cape Grafton
Date:
C1899
(1914)
Engraver:
J & C.Walker
Condition:
Laid on early linen and in good condition, with centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Engraving.
Image Size:
655mm
x 957mm
Paper Size:
708mm
x 1015mm
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Genuine antique
dated:
1914
Description:
Detailed hydrographic chart of the Queensland coast, extending from Double Point to Cape Grafton. This chart is a totally new survey dated 21st January 1899 replacing the same numbered chart ‘2350’, first issued in 1856. The chart covers a smaller area and in greater detail. From the original surveys made by Owen Stanley and HMS Rattlesnake 1848. First issued 21st January 1899 with large corrections 29th May 1915 and minor ones 1915.
The regular updating of Hydrographic charts by the Hydrographic Office was to ensure that commanders of ships, pilots and other mariners were able to have the most to up to date information available to safely navigate foreign waters and ports as new information of changes to sea depths, sand bars, wrecks or other any other pertinent nautical information that could hinder passage became available. As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period rare.
Captain Owen Stanley (1811 - 1850)
Stanley was a British Royal Navy officer and surveyor, entered the Royal Naval College at the age of fifteen. After gaining the rank of midshipman in 1826, in 1826–1827, he spent time in South America on board HMS Ganges. In 1830, he was with Phillip Parker King on board HMS Adventure while it surveyed the Straits of Magellan at the tip of South America. In December 1846 Stanley sailed from Portsmouth in charge of HMS Rattlesnake, with the naturalists Thomas Huxley, John MacGillivray and artist Oswald Walters Brierly on board, accompanied by Charles Bampfield Yule in HMS Bramble. In November 1847 he arrived at Port Curtis on the Australian coast, and after surveying the harbour described it as a very good anchorage. In 1848 he continued further north to survey New Guinea, and in June of that year offered protection and assistance to Edmund Kennedy’s expedition to Cape York Peninsula. Owen went on to survey the Louisiade Archipelago but in 1849 fell ill, and died in March 1850 after returning to Sydney.
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Hydrographic charting of Australia History ( - )
Naval policy dictated that Admiralty charts be destroyed when superseded to avoid navigational error. It was during Rear Admiral John Washington’s period as the Admiralty’s hydrographer, 1855-1863, that a series of agreements were drawn up with the Australian colonies. These agreements provided boats and crews for use by officers lent from the Royal Navy to chart the coasts and shoal waters in the approaches to the rapidly developing towns, communication with which was seriously hampered by the the frequency of shipwrecks. It had been the discovery of gold and the consequent rush of miners and emigrants from not only England but California that added greatly the numbers of ships sailing to Australia’s east coast. This led to numerous petitions being made to Her Majesty’s Government to chart the eastern approaches to Australia to make for safer passage for shipping.
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