Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Francis Beaufort NPG 2515(90)

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by William Brockedon

Sir Francis Beaufort was the creator of the Beaufort scale for indicating wind force. Beginning at fourteen on a merchant ship of the British East India Company, Beaufort rose, during the Napoleonic Wars, through the ranks to become a Captain in the Royal Navy. He spent his leisure time taking soundings and bearings, making astronomical observations to determine longitude and latitude, and measuring shorelines. In 1829, at the age of fifty-five, Beaufort became the Hydrographer of the British Admiralty, a post he held for twenty-five... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.