British Admiralty Survival Chart 5214 Indian Ocean - November to April - For the Use of Boats Only: Not to be Used for General Navigation

Hydrographic Office; Vice-Admiral Sir John Edgell

Verlag: British Admiralty, London, 1942

Beschreibung

World War 2 era colour paper chart backed on linen with text printed to the back 82 x 86cm, folding to 21 x 25cm. Very good with a couple of closed fold tears. Published by the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty, 23 Oct 1942, under the Superintendence of Vice-Admiral Sir John Edgell, KBE, CB, Hydrographer. Natural Scale 1:14,500,000 (Equator). Charts such as this were issued in survival and navigation kits for life boats. This one shows the directions, speeds and limits of various winds and currents during November to April, including the Monsoon and Westerlies, with numerous notes and qualifications, magnetic variation curves for 1942, and the extreme northern limits of the polar ice pack and drifting ice. The notes on the back describe the chart and how to use it, management of boats, winds and weather specific to the Indian Ocean, and currents. Equivalents were prepared for the Indian Ocean (Oct - May) and North and South Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Scarce. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3972

Bibliografische Details

Titel: British Admiralty Survival Chart 5214 Indian...

Verlag: British Admiralty, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1942

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Very Good