Catalogue description North Atlantic Ocean including North Sea, Greenland Sea and Barents Sea: Europe, North...

North Atlantic Ocean including North Sea, Greenland Sea and Barents Sea: Europe, North coast: Greenland, East coast: United Kingdom to Svalbard, Spitsbergen, including part of Iceland. Entitled 'A Chart Shewing [sic] Track of His Majesty's Ship Sybille, in company with His Majesty's Ship Princess Caroline, on a cruise for Protection of East Greenland Fishery between 6 May and 18 August 1814 when both Ships returned to Long Hope Sound, ORKNEY ISLANDS. Syille [sic] afterwards to PORTSMOUTH. Pricefs [sic] Caroline to SHEERNESS.', includes one inset: 'A Chart shewing [sic] the Track of His Majesty's Ship Sybille into and out of Hammerfast West Finmark - The Headlands Island, Soundings Ec as Surveyed by M. W. Bain Master July 1814'. Compass indicator magnetic North, orientation to the East. Inset scale: 9½ inches to 25 miles. Also includes one view: 'The appearance of three high islands in coming in'. Chart and inset show coastline, hydrography, anchorages, ships tracks, topography, remarks, and explanatory key including reference to Arnolds Chronometer 1981. Colour manuscript. Watermark: 'James Whatman Tu [Turkey Mills Kent], 1809'. Latitude and longitude indicated. North point with compass indicator. No scale shown. Surveyed by William Bain, Master, July 1814. Endorsed: 'Sybilles Tracks in Northern Seas. Received 21 September 1815' on verso