{"title":"Old Admiralty Charts","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"1822-admiralty-chart-636-cape-of-good-hope-print","title":"1822 Admiralty Chart (No 636) of the Cape of Good Hope","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eAdmiralty Chart No. 636,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSurvey of the Cape of Good Hope\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, surveyed in 1822 by Lieut. Vidal of H.M.S. Leven under Capt. W.F.W Owen, is among the earliest systematic British hydrographic surveys of the Cape, produced soon after the Admiralty Hydrographic Office was established and Britain had formally secured the Cape Colony in 1814. Covering the coastline from Cape Point to Table Bay, the chart extends across False Bay to include Cape Hangklip on its eastern side, while also plotting Robben Island in Table Bay—features critical to navigation around the Cape Peninsula. It provides detailed soundings, anchorages, shoals, and hazards, with coastal landmarks like Table Mountain, Lion’s Head, and the Peninsula headlands carefully drawn and supplemented by engraved coastal profiles to guide visual navigation. Engraved on copper in the early Admiralty style, it features dense fathom soundings, rhumb lines, and notes on currents and prevailing winds, reflecting the practical needs of Royal Navy and merchant shipping on the India route. The inclusion of Simon’s Bay, already identified as a safer winter anchorage than Table Bay, further underscores the chart’s strategic importance. Beyond its navigational utility, Chart 636 symbolized Britain’s growing naval supremacy and scientific precision in the early 19th century, and today it endures as a valuable maritime artifact of the Age of Empire.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. Most old maps were printed on uncoated rag or wood pulp papers, so a matte finish best represents the original map.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Africa Map Art","offers":[{"title":"Matte 230gsm coated paper \/ 59 x 78cm","offer_id":47531309433054,"sku":null,"price":890.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canvas 350gsm \/ 59 x 78cm","offer_id":49139146424542,"sku":null,"price":890.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/9403\/5678\/files\/cape-of-good-hope-admiralty-chart-636-1822.jpg?v=1786616097"},{"product_id":"1854-admiralty-chart-643-port-natal-print","title":"1854 Admiralty Chart (No 643) of Port Natal","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eAdmiralty Chart No. 643,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePort Natal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, surveyed in 1854 by Lieut. Dayman, provides one of the earliest systematic hydrographic surveys of Durban Harbour at a time when the settlement was still a modest colonial outpost of growing importance. Issued by the Admiralty Hydrographic Office just a decade after Natal became a British colony, the chart records the bay’s shallow waters and the hazardous sandbar at its entrance, with detailed soundings, tidal notes, and anchorage points carefully engraved to guide vessels. It delineates the enclosed harbour and sandbanks, along with the small settlement features around the Bay of Natal, offering a snapshot of the port before the extensive dredging and harbour works of the later 19th century. Combining precise hydrography with the artistry of copperplate engraving, the chart reflects the Admiralty’s methodical effort to map strategic anchorages along the southern African coast. While less developed than Cape Town’s Table Bay or Simon’s Bay, Port Natal was of rising significance for trade, whaling, and agricultural exports, and this chart captures Durban at a formative stage in its evolution toward becoming Africa’s busiest harbour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. Most old maps were printed on uncoated rag or wood pulp papers, so a matte finish best represents the original map.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Africa Map Art","offers":[{"title":"Matte 230gsm coated paper \/ 85 x 58cm","offer_id":47531366645982,"sku":null,"price":890.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Canvas 350gsm \/ 85 x 58cm","offer_id":49139146588382,"sku":null,"price":890.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0738\/9403\/5678\/files\/port-natal-durban-admiralty-chart-643-1854.jpg?v=1790965141"},{"product_id":"1943-admiralty-chart-123-table-bay-docks-print","title":"1943 Admiralty Chart (No 123) of the Table Bay Docks","description":"\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eAdmiralty Chart No. 123, Table Bay Docks and Approaches\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003e, published at the Admiralty on 29 January 1943 (new edition 1946, small corrections 1950), is a large-scale plan of Cape Town’s harbour works and fairways compiled from the Harbour Engineer’s plans to 1946. Focused strictly on the engineered waterfront rather than surrounding topography, it details the Alfred and Duncan Docks, breakwaters, quays, basins, dredged entrance channels and turning areas, with dense soundings, depth contours, leading lines, lights and buoys to guide movements of naval and commercial traffic. Issued during and immediately after WWII, the chart captures Table Bay’s transformation into a heavily modernised Allied port and refitting hub, documenting the operational layout and maintained depths essential for safe access and berthing in the mid-twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Based on surveys by Francis Skead (1858–60) and later refined by W.E. Archdeacon, the chart shows dense soundings, seabed notes, and treacherous features such as the reefs near Cape St. Francis and the hazardous entrance to Knysna Lagoon—then a small but developing timber port. With few secure anchorages along this stretch apart from Mossel Bay, the chart highlights the dangers of the steep-to Tsitsikamma shoreline, notorious for its swells and lack of shelter, which forced mariners to pass quickly offshore. Issued at a time of rising trade along the Cape route, it reflects the Admiralty’s effort to reduce shipwrecks and improve safety ahead of the Suez Canal’s opening in 1869. Today, Chart 2084 is valued as a record of the perilous “Garden Route” coast before modern harbours reshaped South African maritime traffic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Engraved for the Hydrographic Office, it compiles dense lead-line soundings (in fathoms), bottom notes, reefs and shoals, and the principal lights and beacons needed for passage planning on one of the era’s busiest and most hazardous sea-lanes, where storms and the shifting Agulhas Current made careful navigation essential. Issued on the eve of the Suez Canal (opened 1869), the sheet captures the Cape route at its late–Age-of-Sail and early-steam zenith, and—like other Admiralty charts—was subsequently corrected on later impressions, functioning as a “living document” aboard working ships.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Compiled from Francis Skead’s detailed hydrography of the late 1850s and later updated by W.E. Archdeacon, it shows dense lead-line soundings across the Agulhas Bank, annotated with bottom types (“sand,” “rock,” “mud”), alongside the rugged coastal detail of Struisbaai, St. Sebastian Bay, and the headlands into Mossel Bay. Navigational hazards—including reefs, rocky outcrops, and the unpredictable Agulhas current—are carefully marked, while Mossel Bay appears as one of the few anchorages offering partial refuge on this treacherous stretch. Issued at a time when the Cape sea route carried booming East India trade, emigrant traffic, and Australian cargoes, the chart reflects both the peril of frequent shipwrecks and the Admiralty’s efforts to improve safety through accurate surveys. Later impressions were continually corrected with new soundings, lights, and harbour works, making Chart 2083 a “living document” aboard working ships. Today it stands as a valuable record of the southern Cape coast before modern engineering, capturing the hydrography and hazards as mid-19th-century sailors experienced them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Boteler and H.A. Gibbons of H.M.S. \u003ci\u003eLeven\u003c\/i\u003e under Capt. W.F.W. Owen and published in 1828, is an early British hydrographic chart focused on the small Atlantic inlet south of Table Bay. Engraved with the Admiralty’s hallmark precision, it provides detailed soundings in fathoms, anchorage notes, and coastal features including the Sentinel, Chapman’s Peak, and the sandy beach at the bay’s head, all framed by steep surrounding mountains. Produced soon after Britain’s formal annexation of the Cape Colony, the chart reflects the Admiralty’s systematic effort to map safe anchorages along the Cape sea route, with Hout Bay serving as a vital refuge from the north-westerly gales that could make Table Bay hazardous. At the time, the bay was lightly settled, known mainly for fishing, timber, and small farms, but Chart 635 preserves a hydrographic record of its natural, undeveloped state. As part of the Admiralty’s expanding global charting programme, it remains an important testament to early 19th-century navigation and the strategic significance of the Cape of Good Hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Engraved by E. Stanford at a scale of about 1:250,000, the chart is densely detailed with fathom soundings, bottom notes, shoals, banks, rocky heads, and annotated magnetic variation, while lights, beacons, and insets of Table Bay, Hout Bay, and Point Danger provide navigational focus on critical anchorages. Compiled from surveys by Lieut. Joseph Dayman (1853), Francis Skead (1858–60), and W.E. Archdeacon (post-1867), it reflects the Admiralty’s rigorous hydrography during an era when Table Bay and the Cape sea-lanes were among the busiest on the Britain–India–Australia route. Published under the Hydrographic Office during Captain G.H. Richards’s tenure as Hydrographer of the Navy, the chart coincided with major harbour works at Table Bay in the 1860s and reveals the ongoing dangers of the Agulhas Bank before modern port engineering and the Suez Canal shifted global traffic patterns. Today, Chart 2082 is valued as both a technical achievement and a vivid record of the Cape route at its mid-19th century zenith, with later states preserving how such Admiralty charts evolved as “living documents” aboard working ships.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Compiled largely from Francis Skead’s surveys of the late 1850s, the chart presents extensive lead-line soundings, seabed notes, coastal relief in hachures, and sailing directions, with special attention to anchorages such as Table Bay—then undergoing major harbour works—and the excellent natural shelter of Saldanha. Beyond these, the coast is shown as barren and hazardous, with few aids to navigation and a long history of wrecks caused by poor shelter, fogs, and shifting currents. Issued at a time when the Cape route remained vital for Britain’s East Indies and Australian trade, the chart reflects the Admiralty’s systematic hydrographic programme and captures the west coast’s dual character: Cape Town emerging as a fortified imperial harbour while the rest of the coastline remained largely undeveloped and perilous for mariners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Compiled chiefly from Francis Skead’s 1857–60 surveys, the chart provides dense soundings, seabed notes, and hazard markings, particularly around Algoa Bay, the open roadstead that underpinned the rise of Port Elizabeth as the region’s principal port. Features such as Roman Rock, Thunderbolt Reef, and the Cape Recife Lighthouse (first lit in 1851) are carefully plotted, while marginal annotations warn of the dangerous easterly gales and swell conditions that often wrecked vessels at anchor. Though less naturally sheltered than Table Bay or Simon’s Town, Algoa Bay became a hub for wool exports and frontier trade, and the Admiralty’s hydrography reflects its growing importance just before breakwater construction began. Issued on the eve of the Suez Canal’s opening in 1869, Chart 2085 captures the south coast at a time when the Cape route was still the main maritime highway to India and Australia, and it remains an invaluable record of the pre-harbour era of Port Elizabeth and its hazardous approaches.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. 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Woodhouse, R.N.\u003c\/i\u003e and the officers of \u003ci\u003eH.M. South African Surveying Ship “Protea”\u003c\/i\u003e, depicts the coastal approaches and entrance to Durban Harbour on South Africa’s Indian Ocean coast. Published at the Admiralty in 1939, with corrections in 1941 and 1951, the chart focuses tightly on the harbour entrance, the Bluff headland, and the offshore approaches immediately seaward of Durban Bay, showing soundings in fathoms, sandbanks, reefs, and the dredged navigation channel leading into the port. Additional in-harbour soundings by the Durban Harbour Engineer up to 1944 are included, reflecting the city’s continuous port expansion during the interwar and wartime years. Issued just before the Second World War, the chart records Durban’s emergence as South Africa’s primary Indian Ocean port and strategic naval base, combining hydrographic precision with a snapshot of a rapidly modernising harbour that would play a crucial role in Allied naval operations during the 1940s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Based on Royal Navy surveys refined through the early twentieth century, the chart shows the wide outer bay, narrow entrance channel, sheltered inner lagoon, and the surrounding granite peninsulas of Postberg, Marcus, and Meeuw Islands, with soundings in fathoms and clear indications of reefs, anchorages, and lighthouses for safe navigation. Published by the Hydrographic Office during the interwar period, it represents an update of older surveys in preparation for renewed naval interest just before the Second World War. Historically, Saldanha had long been valued for its strategic position — the site of Britain’s capture of a Dutch squadron in 1781 — but by 1934 it remained a quiet coastal settlement serving fishing, whaling, and occasional naval calls. The chart thus preserves the bay in its natural, pre-industrial state, before the massive harbour and iron-ore terminal works of the 1970s transformed it into one of South Africa’s key deep-water ports.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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The chart reflects extensive dredging and engineering works that created a deep-water entrance channel and enclosed basins, with quays, wharves, breakwaters, and navigational aids such as lighthouses and beacons clearly marked. By 1944 Durban had grown beyond its colonial commercial role to serve as a major Allied naval base and convoy assembly point in the Indian Ocean, supporting operations from East Africa to Asia. The hydrographic detail—soundings, anchorage notes, and harbour works—illustrates its capacity to accommodate large modern warships and merchant fleets. This edition thus captures both the technical evolution of Durban Harbour and its pivotal role in global wartime logistics.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Based on mid-20th-century hydrographic surveys, it shows soundings in fathoms, extensive offshore depth contours, and a carefully defined dredged entrance channel marked by buoys, leading lines, and light characteristics from the Bluff Lighthouse. The chart incorporates notes on tides, currents, and the Agulhas Current, vital for navigation in this dynamic stretch of coast. Reflecting major harbour improvements of the 1950s, it documents deepened approaches and extended breakwaters that enabled Durban to serve larger merchant and passenger vessels. By this time Durban had become South Africa’s busiest port and principal Indian Ocean gateway, pivotal for trade and strategically significant in the post-war and Cold-War era. Admiralty Chart 577 thus captures the port at its mid-century zenith—modern, expanding, and central to both maritime commerce and naval operations on Africa’s east coast. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. The map is printed on your choice of 230gsm heavyweight coated paper with a matte finish or 350gsm canvas. 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Dalgleish, R.N.\u003c\/i\u003e, aboard the \u003ci\u003eSouth African Survey Ship “Africana”\u003c\/i\u003e, and first published at the Admiralty on 28 August 1936 (with large corrections in 1951 and 1966), provides a detailed hydrographic representation of Table Bay and the approaches to Cape Town’s harbour. The chart covers Robben Island, Green Point, Woodstock, and Paarden Eiland, showing the harbour basins, dredged channels, moorings, and anchorages, with depths in fathoms and dense soundings across the bay. Navigational aids such as the Green Point and Robben Island lighthouses, buoys, and leading lines illustrate the precision required to enter the expanding port safely. By the time of the 1966 corrections, Table Bay had been transformed through mid-20th-century engineering works — including the Duncan Dock and Sturrock Graving Dock, as well as major foreshore reclamation that reshaped Cape Town’s waterfront. Issued during a period when the bay served as one of the busiest Allied ports of WWII and a vital refuel and repair hub on global trade routes, the chart captures Table Bay at its industrial and strategic peak — a pre-containerisation harbour serving conventional cargo and naval vessels.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none; mso-fareast-language: EN-ZA;\"\u003eThis map is a reproduction of a historical map that is now in the public domain. It has been selected for its aesthetic appeal and historical interest and carefully restored and reproduced to preserve its original detail and character. There may be marks and fold lines visible, which add to the authentic look. 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