Admiralty Charts — Hardy Monument

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. The Hardy Monument on Black Down. Not a chart facsimile.

Overview

The chart fact is already on Hardy Monument — Black Down and Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory. The 72-foot monument stands on Black Down above Portisham and is on Admiralty navigation charts.¹

The Chart Fact

This note covers that chart fact only. Chart number, Hydrographic Office, and a surviving sheet stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

It was built by public subscription in 1844 and is visible up to sixty miles offshore. Hardy died at Greenwich on 20 September 1839.²

Sources

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• Hardy Monument — Black Down
• Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory

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Footnotes

1. On Admiralty navigation charts: Hardy Monument — Black Down and the Hardy note. ↩

2. 72-foot; 1844; visible up to sixty miles; died 20 September 1839: same notes. Do not invent a chart number or a Hydrographic Office history. ↩