Lot #: 36694
1896 BRITISH ADMIRALTY CHART - Colombo Harbour From Surveys supplied by Sir. John Coode. . .
Colombo Harbour From Surveys supplied by Sir. John Coode. . .
| Maker: | BRITISH ADMIRALTY CHART | |
| Date: | London, 1885 -1896 | |
| Colored: | Uncolored. | |
| Size: | 630 x 460 mm / 24.8 x 18.1 inches | |
| Condition: | In good condition. | |
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Description
Sir John Coode's highly detailed map of the Harbour at Colombo (Sri Lanka), with manuscript notations and corrections in pencil. With red pencil "INCORRECT".
The finely detailed chart reflects the revisions of the Admiralty over a number of years, with lighthouses colored in yellow and red.
British Admiralty Charts (Hydrographic Office, 1795–present)
The Hydrographic Office was established by an order in council in 1795 under Earl Spencer, with George III’s backing. Its original staff consisted of the Hydrographer, one assistant and a draughtsman. The Crown was responding to losses in trade through shipwrecks and delays caused by poor charts, and saw the need for a government-sponsored cartographic agency. Its first Hydrographer was Alexander Dalrymple (1795–1808), a civilian geographer formerly with the East India Company. In 1796 he brought together and catalogued the existing charts. The department began printing in 1800 with its first printing press. The first chart it published, in November 1800, was of Quiberon Bay in Brittany.Early hydrographers are
Thomas Hurd (1808–1823), who succeeded Dalrymple on his death in 1808. In 1821 he persuaded the Admiralty to allow charts to be sold to the public (subject to some security restrictions). Sales went through a series of chart agents. The first catalogue appeared in 1825 (with 736 charts in the Admiralty’s count, while Wikipedia says 756). He developed the specialism of Royal Navy hydrographic surveyors.
Sir Francis Beaufort (1829–1855): the Hydrographic Department became a separate Admiralty department in 1831 with its own work programme and financial estimates. Beaufort turned the office from a chart-cataloguing into a chart-making institution. Under him the first Sailing Directions (1829), tide tables (1833) and Notices to Mariners (1834) were published. He sponsored countless surveys and expeditions, including the 1831–1836 voyage of HMS Beagle. He established the principle of checking detail thoroughly before publication, and the office became the model for foreign hydrographic services. By his retirement in 1855 the catalogue listed some 1,981 charts, and the office was producing over 130,000 copies, about half for the Navy and half sold.
The department produced new charts and products throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The First International Hydrographic Conference was held in London after the First World War. Chart printing moved to Creechbarrow House in Taunton in June 1941. A purpose-built office named after Dalrymple opened later, and in 2008 the UKHO became the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office and launched an ADMIRALTY Vector Chart Service of electronic navigational charts.
NOTE : The charts carry the date of first publication and, usually, dates of “large corrections” and later printings.
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