[Straits of Magellan]

An image showing '[Straits of Magellan]. A Waggoner - 'Shewing the making and bearing of all the coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire done from the Spanish original by Basil Ringrose' Text and drawings.P/32(105)'

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Bound sheet. Col. ms. Additional Places: Chile, Tierra del Fuego. Contents Note: Latitude noted.
From a book of sailing directions of 110ff: 'The South Sea Waggoner shewing the making & bearing of all the coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire done from the Spanish originall by Basil Ringrose'. The charts all have a square pencil grid for making copies.

Administrative / biographical background
The source was a Spanish derrotero captured by Captain Sharpe in the 'Trinity' (with Ringrose on board) from the Spanish ship 'Rosario' off modern Ecuador on 29 July 1681.

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Record Details

Item reference:	P/32(105); MS 1939-9944
Level:	PART
Date made:	1682
Creator:	Ringrose, Basil
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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- Ringrose, Basil (English). A Waggoner - 'Shewing the making and bearing of all the coasts from California to the Streights of Le Maire done from the Spanish original by Basil Ringrose'. (Manuscript) (P/32)