Port of Bombay

Circa 1950s–1970s

Lithograph on paper

39.25 x 27.5 in (100 x 70 cm)

ADMIRALTY HYDROGRAPHIC CHART OF THE PORT OF BOMBAY – THE GATEWAY OF INDIA

Large engraved and lithographed nautical chart, printed on paper, showing the approaches to and anchorage at the Port of Bombay, with extensive detail of harbour facilities, docks, shipping channels, soundings, buoys, and lighthouses. Approx. size: 100 × 70 cm unfolded.

The Admiralty Hydrographic Office produced and regularly updated charts of Bombay throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Bombay emerged as the pre-eminent harbour of western India and the Arabian Sea, the chart became indispensable to mercantile shipping and naval operations alike.

This mid-twentieth-century issue, printed during the decades of rapid industrial growth around the harbour, records both the enduring colonial infrastructure of Prince’s Dock, Victoria Dock, and Ballard Pier and the expansion of port facilities that underpinned Bombay’s role as the “Gateway of India”. Admiralty charts of this period are sought not only for their maritime accuracy but also as historical documents of the city’s evolving urban and industrial shoreline.

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