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Kenton Spading:
You neglected to cite the chart number but from my British
Admiralty chart catalog it looks to be 2915 @ 1:176,000.
As of their 1996 catalogue edition, the date of publication
is 1864 with new edition in March 1914 (as you indicated).
There may be newer copies of this chart with CORRECTIONS,
but unless you subscribe to B.A. notices to mariners you
will have to ask the Admiralty what the date of the latest
correction is.
Probably however, the British Admiralty is no longer really
interested in maintaining this chart due to proprietary
issues with the Canadian Hydrographic Service who have their
own charts of this area (4016,4613,4622). The United States
Defense Mapping Agency has charts too which are to a major
extent copies of the CHS charts (14349,14350,14360). As per
ususal, I am giving you more information than you probably
care to know.
For a concise background of the British Admiralty I
recommend the introduction by Admiral G.S. Ritchie in THE
SEA CHART by Derek Howse (ISBN 071535857X).
- Paul Leverenz
Scripps Inst. Oceanography Library
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