This coastal survey was made in Washington D.C. in 1944 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, from Cape Henry to Thimble Shoal Light is illustrated on this map. Details include depth readings,prohibited and restricted areas where appropriate, an examination anchorage, anchorage zones, cable areas, lights, buoys, radio beacons ( stamped on map), and the names of important cities and waterways along the coast.
The most recent corrections are hand stamped on the map.
Notes on the map read:
Warning: Aids to navigation may be altered, interrupted or removed without notice. In general, temporary changes due to war conditions are not incorporated on the chart.
Caution:
Temporary changes affecting Lights, Buoys and Day Beacons
Aids which have been destroyed or removed, but which will be reestablished and are temporarily replaced by aids of different characteristics, are indicated in color by the following abbreviations.
D Destroyed, to be reestablished
TRB Temporarily replaced by a red buoy
TBB Temporarily replaced by a black buoy
TFB Temporarily replaced by a fixed white light buoy
TFRB Temporarily replaced by a fixed red light buoy
TFLB Temporarily replaced by a flashing white light buoy
TFLRB Temporarily replaced by a flashing red light buoy
