Map Collection

Mackenzie 1780s
FA2000.22:- 
Chart, uncoloured engraving, St Helen's Road, Spithead, Portsmouth and Langstone Harbours, scale about 1 to 23000?, about 3 ins to 1 nautical mile, surveyed by Lt Murdoch Mackenzie, 1783, published by the Hydrographical Office, 1808.
Sold by R B Bate, 21 Poultry, London.
map feature:-  not coloured & compass rose & magnetic variation & scale line & depth soundings (and bottoms) & depth contours & coast appearance & sea marks & leading lines & sandbanks & anchorages & tides (tidal flows) & rivers & harbours & relief & settlements (on the coast) & castles & fortifications & salterns
scale line:-  7 nautical miles = 555.8 mm
inscription:-  printed -on- upper right ST. HELEN'S ROAD / SPITHEAD / PORTSMOUTH and LANGSTONE / HARBOURS. / Surveyed in 1783 / by / Lieut. Murdoch Mackenzie Junr. / ....
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom centre Hydrographical Office Published according to Act of Parliament Octr. 1st. 1808. by Cap. Hurd R.N. Hydrographer to the Admiralty
inscription:-  printed -on- bottom (outside the map plate) Sold by R. B. BATE, 21, Poultry, for the Lords Commissrs. of the Admiralty, by their Appointment.
dimension:-  wxh, sheet = 68.5x101cm
wxh, plate = 641x973mm
wxh, map = 620x965mm
scale = 1 to 23000 ? (1 to 23351 from scale line assuming english nautical mile)

  Map Group -- Mackenzie 1780s -- with Research Notes

town names:- 
Gosport Hampshire
map name modern name
Gosport Gosport
Portsmouth Portsmouth

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MN: 4.10.2001