British Admiralty Hydrographical Office
1872

Antique British sea chart of Mobile Bay and Dauphin Island

Mobile Bay from the United States Coast Survey. 1856. [1872]

DESCRIPTION: Attractive, scarce antique British nautical chart of Mobile Bay, Alabama and Dauphin ("Dauphine") Island. With Isle aux Herbes and Bayou la Batre. On Dauphin Island the noted features include Fort Gaines, Heron Bayou, Second Bayou, Gravline Bay, Bayou Aloe, Chitgae Point, Drury Pass, Little (and Big) Margaret Pass, and Bayou Matagua. Opposite Dauphin Island, Bonsecours Bay, Mobile Point, Pilot Town and Fort Morgan are noted with a separate quarters building and three large umbrella pines, e.g. "West Umbrella tree" that are referenced as range markers in the sailing directions of Blunt's contemporary "American Coast Pilot" (Blunt, Edmund M. 21st ed. 1867. pp. 399-400.)

This is a large rolled nautical chart on heavy paper. Not the folded preliminary survey on weak paper that is often found in Reports to Congress.

North end of Mobile Bay includes a street plan of Mobile, Alabama with nearby features including Pole Cat Bay, Chicasaw Bayou, Chacaloochee Bay, Apalachee River, and Minetta Bay. Good detail of the east bay including Weeks Bay, Blakely River, Point Clear, D'Olives Bay, D'Olives Creek, (near present-day Daphne, Al. ), Alabama City, and Newport.

Inset sailing directions carry this warning:
"Caution: Sand and Pelican Is. are increasing in length and Pelican Channel is getting narrower every year… Pelican Bay is available only for vessels drawing less than 12 feet water. The entrance from outside should not be attempted without a pilot, nor can the state on the main channel be considered as permanent."

Scale 1/80,000. Number 2344.

Publisher's attribution reads :
"London, Published at the Admiralty 12th March 1862 under the Superintendence of Captn. Washington R.N.F.R.S. Hydrographer. Corrections Feb 72. Sold by J.D. Potter Agent for the Admiralty Charts 31 Poultry and 11 King Street Tower Hill."

CREATOR: British Admiralty Hydrographical Office

PUBLICATION DATE: 1872

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Mobile Bay

CONDITION: Good.  Rolled on heavy paper. One flattened horizontal fold, as issued. A touch of age toning and a few minor chips in the margins.

COLORING: Modern outline handcolor with green wash in the nearshore coastal margins.

ENGRAVER: J. and C. Walker.

SIZE: 26 " x 36 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 53

PRICE: $1350

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