[Land's End and Scilly Isles] To the Honble. The Govornor, Deputy Govornor and Committees of the East India Company, this chart is humbly dedicated and presented by Capt. Greenvile Collins Hydrographer to the King. This decorative chart shows the Scilly Isles and the approaches to Land's End, The Lizard and Cape Cornwall. Penzance and Market Jew (Marazion) are marked. Famously, the locations of the Scilly Isles is incorrect by up to 15 miles, which contributed to one of the worse disasters in British maritime history. 2,000 sailors and four warships were wrecked in the Scilly naval disaster of 1707, due in part to the islands being incorrectly marked too far to the north on another of Collins' charts. The island are shown on the map as being to the north of the 50th parallel; they are in fact to the south. . Captain Greenvile (or Greenville) Collins. Collins was an officer of the Royal Navy and prominent hydrographer, who was commissioned by King Charles II in 1676 and appointed by Samuel Pepys (then Secretary to the Admiralty), to chart the coasts of Great Britain. The resulting atlas - Great Britain's Coasting Pilot - was the first original sea atlas to be produced by an Englishman. Prior to publication of these maps, nautical charts were often defective, and there was no centralised system for collecting and disseminating the better maps made by experienced seamen. In 1681, Collins gained the king's preferment to survey the country's coasts. The Admiralty supplied Collins with the 8-gun yacht HMS Merlin for the first two years and later the yacht HMS Monmouth until 1686. His work was carried out under the supervision of Trinity House, who also supported the project financially. Samuel Pepys insisted that Collins be made a younger brother of Trinity House. Collins spent seven years on the survey, the first edition of which was published in 1693, as "Great Britain's Coasting Pilot". The charts, while not completely accurate, were an enormous advance on anything before them, entitling Collins to rank as not only one of the earliest, but also among the best of English hydrographers. Twenty-one further editions were published during the eighteenth century.. Published 1693 (First edition). Decorative antique eighteenth century copperplate nautical sea chart, printed on thick paper. Size 48 x 59 cm | 18.5 x 23.0 inches. Condition: Good; suitable for framing. Light spotting in margin. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side, which is plain. Tags: Cornwall, Cornwall + Collins Captain Greenvile (or Greenville), Cornwall + Collins G, Cornwall + Collins G + Great Britain's Coasting Pilot, Cornwall + Great Britain's Coasting Pilot, Cornwall + Nautical charts, East India Company, India, Scilly

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