British Admiralty Chart No. 901 Red Sea Western Shore - Suakin Harbour

Hydrographic Office; Lieutenant F. Keary et al

Published by British Admiralty, London, 1914

About this Item

B/w chart printed on heavy paper 70x52cm. Good, folded, with short closed tears, and printed label to verso. First published on 20 July 1885 around the time Kitchener was headquartered there, this edition is dated June 1905, with small corrections to Dec 1914. From a survey by Lieutenants F. Keary, J. East, H. Swire, A. Williamson, and Sub-Lieutenant G. Heyman aboard the HMS Myrmidon, 1884, with additions by Commander B.T. Somerville, HMS Sealark, 1905. This beautifully drawn plan presents the important Hajj and trade port of Suakin and its environs in great detail. Its circular layout is shown clearly with its wall, gates and bastion forts named. There are labels for the Consulate, cavalry post, police station, the caravanserai, school, prison, mosques, the Quarantine Office, the Ottoman telephone office, water pipe and condenser, hospital, cotton works, numerous ruins, etc. Outside are shown the route of the Atbara to Red Sea Railway (Suakin Branch) with its related infrastructure, Sheikh Abdullah's tomb, other unnamed tombs, rifle ranges, quarries, Govt waterworks, outlying named forts, Shata Gardens, wells, stone blockhouses, stables, causeways, the Quarantine Station surrounded by wire fencing, etc. It also includes small illustrations to assist in the recognition of Sheikh Abdullah's Tomb, and Beacons I-V.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: British Admiralty Chart No. 901 Red Sea Western Shore - Suakin Harbour
• Publisher: British Admiralty, London
• Publication Date: 1914
• Language: English
• Binding: No Binding
• Condition: Good