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C1893
(1918)
[AUSTRALIA-QLD] Endeavour River Entrance Cook Harbour Surveyed by Commander G. Pirie.
Mapmaker:
George Pirie
Very rare Hydrographic chart of Cooktown harbour issued in 1893 with minor corrections to 1918. From the surveys carried out by George Pirie in the Paluma. HMAS Paluma was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
[AUSTRALIA-QLD] Endeavour River Entrance Cook Harbour Surveyed by Commander G. Pirie.
Date:
C1893
(1918)
Mapmaker:
George Pirie
Engraver:
Edward Walker
Condition:
In good condition, with folds as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured engraving.
Image Size:
665mm
x 1045mm
Paper Size:
500mm
x 645mm
AUTHENTICITY
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Genuine antique
dated:
1918
Description:
Very rare Hydrographic chart of Cooktown harbour issued in 1893 with minor corrections to 1918. From the surveys carried out by George Pirie in the Paluma.
HMAS Paluma was a flat-iron gunboat operated by the Queensland Maritime Defence Force and later the Royal Australian Navy (as HMAS Paluma). She entered service on 28 October 1884 and over the next eight years she was used for survey work on the Great Barrier Reef for the Admiralty. An agreement had previously been reached between the Admiralty and the Queensland government for the Admiralty to fit out and employ Paluma for survey work in northern Australian waters. This was announced by the Admiralty on 28 July 1884. Consequently, following Paluma’s trials, her main deck armament was removed and replaced by facilities for the surveyors, a deck house on the quarterdeck replacing the 6-inch gun and a work room forward replacing the 8
First issued in 1893 this chart like most Admiralty hydrographic charts, has been updated as follows: 1918 small corrections. The regular updating of charts by the Hydrographic Office was to enable Commanders of ships, pilots and other mariners to safely navigate foreign waters and ports as new information of changes to sea depths, sand bars, wrecks or other any other information that could hinder passage became available. As updated charts were offered for sale, the older outdated charts in the hands of mariners were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period very rare.
The Signs and Abbreviations Chart is only there for reference and does not come with the map.
Mapmaker:
The Admiralty’s first Hydrographer, Alexander Dalrymple, was appointed in 1795 and in the next year the existing charts were brought together and catalogued.
The first chart the Admiralty produced (of Quiberon Bay in Brittany) did not appear until 1800. Dalrymple was succeeded in 1808 by Captain Thomas Hurd, under whose stewardship the department was given permission to sell charts to the public. Hurd oversaw the first production of “Sailing Directions” in 1829 and the first catalogue in 1825 with 736 charts. Rear-Admiral Sir W. Edward Parry was appointed Hydrographer in 1823 after his second expedition to discover a Northwest Passage.
Under Dalrymple’s successor, Captain Thomas Hurd, Admiralty charts were sold to the general public, and by 1825 there were 736 charts listed in the catalogue. In 1829 the first sailing directions were published, and in 1833, under Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort the tide tables were first published. Notices to Mariners came out in 1834, allowing for the timely correction of charts already in use. Beaufort was certainly responsible for a step change in output; by the time he left the office in 1855 the Hydrographic Office had a catalogue of nearly 2,000 charts and was producing over 130,000 charts, of which about half were provided to the Royal Navy and half sold.
Hydrographers;
1795 – 1808 Alexander Dalrymple
1808 – 1823 Captain Thomas Hurd
1823 – 1829 Rear-Admiral Sir William Parry
1829 – 1855 Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort
1855 – 1863 Rear Admiral John Washington
1863 – 1874 Vice Admiral Sir George Richards
1874 – 1884 Captain Sir Frederick Evans
1884 – 1904 Rear Admiral Sir William Wharton
1904 – 1909 Rear Admiral Mostyn Field
1909 – 1914 Rear Admiral Herbert Purey-Cust
1914 – 1919 Rear Admiral Sir John Parry
1919 – 1924 Vice Admiral Frederick Learmonth
1924 – 1932 Vice Admiral Percy Douglas
1932 – 1945 Vice Admiral Sir John Edgell
1945 – 1950 Rear Admiral Arthur Norris Wyatt
