Singapore Sea Chart, Year 1945
INDIES GALLERY
Rare British Admiralty nautical chart or
Malacca Strait with part of
maritime map of the Malay Peninsula,
the East Coast of the Malay
Singapore, and the Strait of Malacca. Offers
Peninsula from the latest
countless depth soundings and excellent
British and Foreign
inland detail, particularly in Perak. Coverage
Government Surveys
extends roughly from Penang to Pulo Bintang, including the southern part of Malaya and the eastern coast of Sumatra.
Publication 1945 (Dated)
Noteworthy: Handwritten annotation in the
Condition Good, minor spotting
upper left detail an 'Air Firing Bombing' site, suggesting military use.
Dimensions 103 by 70 cm.
This chart was first engraved by the British Admiralty Hydrographic Office in 1898. It went through numerous updates and revisions, the most recent major revision being 1945 - likely in anticipation of retaking Malaya and Singapore at the end of World War II. The present chart features minor corrections and updates to 1951.
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Price 1400 USD.
The British Admiralty Office (1795 - Present) or the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office refers to the Branch of the English government that is responsible for the command of the British Navy. In 1795 King George III created the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, known in short as the U.K.H.O., to provide top notch nautical charts to the vast Royal Navy. Prior the founding of the Admiralty the surveying and creation of nautical charts was primarily a commercial venture wherein the cartographer himself, more of than not, actually financed the printing of his own material. The great navigator Cook himself is known to have scrambled for funds to publish his own seminal charts - the most important and advanced of the period. The system of privately funded nautical mapping and publishing left vast portions of the world uncharted and many excellent charts unpublished. King George III, responding significant loss in trade revenue related to shipwrecks and delay due to poor charts, recognized the need for an institutionalized government-sponsored cartographic agency - the Admiralty.
The first head of the Admiralty, a position known as Hydrographer, was the important cartographer Alexander Dalrymple. Dalrymple started by organizing and cataloging obtainable charts before initiating the laborious process of updating them and filling in the blanks. The first official Admiralty Chart appeared in 1800 and detailed Quiberon Bay in Brittany. By 1808 the position of Hydrographer fell to Captain Thomas Hurd. Hurd advocated the sale of Admiralty charts to the general public and, by the time he retired in 1829, had issued and published some 736 charts. Stewardship of the organization then passed to Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort. It was under Beaufort's administration that the Admiralty truly developed as a "chart making" as opposed to a "chart cataloging" institution. Beaufort held his post from 1829 to 1854. In his 25 years at the Admiralty Beaufort created nearly 1500 new charts and sponsored countless surveying and scientific expeditions - including the 1831 to 1836 voyage of the H.M.S. Beagle. By 1855 the Admiralty's chart catalog listed some 1,981 charts.
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