Old fathoms chart for Unst, Shetland ?

[dunedin]

Bit of a longshot, but I wonder if anybody has access to an old black & white / fathoms chart for the south end of Unst / Uyea Sound in the Shetland Isles?
Looking for a detailed one, before the change over to metric depths.
Thanks in advance

 

[alan_d]

Bit of a longshot, but I wonder if anybody has access to an old black & white / fathoms chart for the south end of Unst / Uyea Sound in the Shetland Isles?
Looking for a detailed one, before the change over to metric depths.
Thanks in advance

Have you tried the National Library of Scotland? They have an amazing collection of downloadable maps and charts. Link: Admiralty Charts of Scotland, 1795-1963 - Maps of Scotland

 

[bikedaft]

Second what alan_d says - we have ordered from them as well, old fathom charts of e.g. Arisaig entrance, and Colonsay (W coast more detailed)

 

[dunedin]

Have you tried the National Library of Scotland? They have an amazing collection of downloadable maps and charts. Link: Admiralty Charts of Scotland, 1795-1963 - Maps of Scotland

Thanks - great suggestion and a really interesting resource to browse. But I had looked there and whilst they have great old charts for Baltasund, Unst, nothing for the southern area of Unst except for an 1833 smaller scale one which doesn't have much detail.
Really looking for one from around 1930s but pre-metric.

 

[bikedaft]

How about Plans in the Shetland Isles,corrected to 1924? Trying to attach a pic, but too big... From old Scottish chart website, you can select detailed charts, then go from the map/chart and zoom in

 

[bikedaft]

Quendale Bay. Ronas Voe. Ura Firth. Uyea and Skuda sounds. Blue Mull Sound. Leven and Sand Wicks. Tbh it all looks lovely on these old charts..

 

[dunedin]

How about Plans in the Shetland Isles,corrected to 1924? Trying to attach a pic, but too big... From old Scottish chart website, you can select detailed charts, then go from the map/chart and zoom in

Brilliant thanks - hadn’t found that one with the map based search but found using your title. Perfect thanks.

The Forum does it again !

 

[bikedaft]

Great

Will have a much longer look at that website tonight... It's great. Love these old charts. And new charts. And maps...

 

[DFL1010]

Apols for the slight derail, but are there any links similar to the Scottish one for England and/or anywhere else in the world? Could spend all day looking at these.

 

[Bav32]

Apols for the slight derail, but are there any links similar to the Scottish one for England and/or anywhere else in the world? Could spend all day looking at these.

Was it not the case that Jacob Reace Mogg had proposed reverting back to lmperial l measurements as a result of Brexit? If that was the case, no doubt this would spread back to fathoms on Charts, and give a financial benefit as we would all want to buy replacement charts. AYE RIGHT!

 

[bikedaft]

Was it not the case that Jacob Reace Mogg had proposed reverting back to lmperial l measurements as a result of Brexit? If that was the case, no doubt this would spread back to fathoms on Charts, and give a financial benefit as we would all want to buy replacement charts. AYE RIGHT!

Stop starting

 

[srm]

A colleague was coxswain of Stromness lifeboat. One day I found him studying old fathom charts of his area that we had in the college collection. He was interested in the close inshore detail of rocks and gullys that has been smoothed over in the metric editions that simply use safe contours.

 

[dunedin]

A colleague was coxswain of Stromness lifeboat. One day I found him studying old fathom charts of his area that we had in the college collection. He was interested in the close inshore detail of rocks and gullys that has been smoothed over in the metric editions that simply use safe contours.

Smoothed out contours - he should be so lucky! Much of the West Mainland coastline near to Stromness on the current UKHO charts simply states unsurveyed!

 

[srm]

Smoothed out contours - he should be so lucky! Much of the West Mainland coastline near to Stromness on the current UKHO charts simply states unsurveyed!

He was looking at the coast in Hoy Mouth/Hoy Sound. Given the cliffs around west mainland there would be no real point in running lines of soundings right up to the cliffs, other than in the Bay of Skail or the bays near Birsay.