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Thomas Hannaford Hurd ... Hurd's chart of Brest and the Ushant Islands, Surveyed in 1807 ... Hurd was the second person to be appointed hydrographer to the admiralty ...
Initially charts were produced only for use by the Navy, but in 1821, Thomas Hurd, who had succeeded Dalrymple as Hydrographer in 1808, persuaded the Admiralty to allow sales to the public. [ 4 ] : 27 [ 5 ] : 105–106 The first catalogue of Admiralty charts was published in 1825, and listed 756 charts.
Under Dalrymple's successor, Captain Thomas Hurd, Admiralty charts were sold to the general public, and by 1825, there were 736 charts listed in the catalogue. In 1829, the first Sailing Directions were published, and in 1833, under Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort —of the eponymous Beaufort scale —the tide tables were first published.
Dalrymple was succeeded on his death in 1808 by Captain Thomas Hurd, under whose stewardship the department was given permission to sell charts to the public in 1821. [ 4 ] In 1819, Captain Hurd entered into a bi-lateral agreement with Denmark to exchange charts and publications covering areas of mutual interest.
The first chart produced under the direction of the Admiralty, was a chart of Quiberon Bay in Brittany, and it appeared in 1800. Under Captain Thomas Hurd the department received its first professional guidelines, and the first catalogs were published and made available to the public and to other nations as well.
Hurd Deep running from bottom left to top right of an extract from a 1955 Admiralty Chart 1955 Admiralty Chart No 2649 showing Hurd Deep in the context of the English Channel. Hurd's Deep (or Hurd Deep) is an underwater valley in the English Channel, northwest of the Channel Islands. Its maximum depth is about 180 m (590 ft; 98 fathoms), making ...
Thomas's chart of Fowey Harbour, published in 1813. Thomas was appointed by Hurd as the Admiralty Surveyor for Home Waters in 1810, first in HMS Gleaner then the following year in HMS Investigator, a purpose-built survey vessel. His first chart in British waters was of Fowey Harbour, for which he arranged engraving of the copper plate for chart ...
Captain Thomas Hurd had been appointed Admiralty's Hydrographer earlier in 1808. [5] If Hurd was not influential in White's appointment to Vulture he would certainly have supported the survey work. In the end White was to set roots in Jersey for the rest of his life, marrying Eleanor Egan on 24 August 1811 and setting up home in St. Helier .