A chart of the coast of New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania [sic], Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, &c. Composed from the deposit of surveys of the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade, with soundings and nautical remarks from Lt. Jno. Knight of the Navy & others.

Three sheets. Engraved. Scale: ca. 1:620 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Variation shown 1 degree W off New York harbour, 6 degrees W off Cape James and 5 degrees W off the Chesapeake. Tidal symbols shown. Bar scales in nautical and statute miles. Plate same as HNS145A. Other features: Printed on Bates paper. Border yellow, land tinted brown.

Object details

ID: HNS145B
Type: Chart; Print
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet; Knight, John Des Barres, Joseph Frederick Wallet
Date made: 1780
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: Plate impressions >54 x 77.5cm, >53.5 x 77.5cm and >54 x 77.5cm.
Parts: A chart of the coast of New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania [sic], Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, &c. Composed from the deposit of surveys of the Right Honourable the Lords of Trade, with soundings and nautical remarks from Lt. Jno. Knight of the Navy & others. (Chart; Print)