[EUROPE-GREECE] East Coast Gulf of Volo with Oreos and Talanta Channels.

Mapmaker:

Llewellyn Styles Dawson (1859 - 1921)

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[EUROPE-GREECE] East Coast Gulf of Volo with Oreos and Talanta Channels.

Date:

C1890

(1901)

Mapmaker:

Llewellyn Styles Dawson (1859 - 1921)

Engraver:

Davies & Co.

Condition:

Some printing offset and ink stamp on bottom right. Centre fold as issued and fold out on left, otherwise in good condition.

Technique:

Engraving.

Image Size:

830mm

x 915mm

Paper Size:

870mm

x 1120mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1901

Description:

Rare hydrographic chart of the Gulf of Volo with Oreos and Talanta Channels, South of C.Stavros with the Coasts of Negropont from Surveys by Captain T.Graves and the Officers of H.M.S. Volage, 1846-47. North of C.Stavros from a Survey by Commander L.S. Dawson, R.N., assisted by Lieut. G.C.Frederick, H.H.Douglas, H.Thompson,S.T.Dean Pitt, P.N.Richards, P.C. Musgrave and E.A.Day, H.M. Surveying Ship SYLVIA 1887-8. With an added folding map extension at lower left hand side.

First issued in 1890 with minor corrections made up to 1901.

Llewellyn Styles Dawson (1859 - 1921)

Llewellyn Styles Dawson (1848-1921) Served as a midshipman on the surveying ships, HMS Medina and HMS Hydra from 1836-1865 in the Mediterranean. Then he was stationed on the HMS Sylvia and HMS Serpent on the coasts of China and Japan. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1869, he successfully surveyed the waters of Yangtze. In 1872, he led the search expedition for Livingstone, but resigned after six months. In 1873 he was assigned to Moresby to explore the coasts of New Guinea and was in 1875 placed in command of HMS Renard and later the HMS Alacrity, to survey Fiji Islands. In 1881 he was selected to be in charge of the reorganised Marine Survey of India and was specially promoted to commander. He was reassigned to the command of HMS Sylvia in 1885 to survey the coasts of Africa, Spain, Turkey and Greece in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. By 1889 he was in command of the HMS Rambler at Thursday Island, and worked in the Torres Strait. His last naval appointment was in 1895, to survey the coasts of Western Australia. He retired as a captain in 1897 and died on December 8, 1921. His memoirs were published in 1885 'Memoirs of Hydrography'. Lieutenant and later Commander, Royal Navy.

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