Wreck Chart of the British Isles—Royal National Lifeboat Institution 1896 map
£230
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'Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the year 1894-95—Compiled from the Board of Trade Register—Showing also the Present Life Boat Stations'
An arresting Victorian statistical map of maritime danger around Britain and Ireland, issued as a folding supplement to the 2 November 1896 number of The Life-Boat, the journal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, and retained with that original issue. Compiled from the Board of Trade register for the year ended 30 June 1895, each black dot pinpoints a shipping casualty—not simply a wreck or total loss—while boat emblems locate the Institution’s lifeboats. Dense concentrations around the English Channel, Thames estuary, East Anglian sands, Humber, Mersey and Bristol Channel make the geography of risk immediately visible; an inset covers Shetland and Orkney. The printed summary records 4,917 vessels lost or damaged, including cases of minor damage, and 740 lives lost. The accompanying analysis counted 1,688 collisions and noted that only 38 of those who died were passengers, the remainder officers and crew; it states that the chart showed 298 Institution lifeboats. Lithographed by Standidge & Co., Old Jewry, and published by the Institution at 14 John Street, Adelphi.
Size 31 x 38 cm | 12.0 x 15.0 inches
Date Published: November 1896
Type: Antique printed-colour lithographed statistical / nautical folding map
Author: Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Publication: The Lifeboat—R.N.L.I. Journal
Condition: Good |
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