Portuguese Nautical Chart | Fernão Vaz Dourado | 1571 16th Century The guards fired their guns

The guards fired their guns to quell rising panic

while the rest of the hull and surrounding water is darkened by the lashing rain

sighted a strange sail at 03:00 when 120 miles south-west of Cape Finisterre

painting at first thought to be HMS Belvidera escaping from USS President

Portuguese Nautical Chart | Fernão Vaz Dourado | 1571 16th Century The guards fired their gunsNautical chart of Portuguese cartographer Ferno Vaz Dourado (c. 1520 c. 1580), part of a nautical atlas drawn in 1571 and now kept in the Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo (ANTT), Lisbon. This chart depicts the known West African coast. Print: A premium quality heavyweight (200gsm) fine art print material with a smooth, clean finish. This museum quality paper is extremely consistent and works perfectly with large, full colour graphics or