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Newfoundland (now in Canada). Admiralty Chart 293: 'East Coast of Newfoundland, Gander...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1744
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- FO 925/1744
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- 1873-1888
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Newfoundland (now in Canada). Admiralty Chart 293: 'East Coast of Newfoundland, Gander Bay to Cape Bonavista ...'. Views of the mainland from Stinking Banks, Saint Rock and Black Head Bay. View of Offer Wadham lighthouse. Scale: 1 inch to about 3 miles. Compass roses. Engraved by Davies and Company. Surveyed by Staff Commander J H Kerr, Royal Navy assisted by Navigating Lieutenants G Robinson and W F Maxwell, Royal Navy 1869-1871. Drawn by E J Powell of the Hydrographic Office, under the direction of Captain R Hoskyn, Royal Navy, Superintendent of Charts. Published at the Admiralty 31 March 1873 under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral G H Richards, CB FRS Hydrographer. Corrections to 1888.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- 106 cm x 71 cm
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 835
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