Woodroofe, Thomas
Thomas Woodroofe (fl. 1740 - 1745) was an English sea captain, whose travels in the Caspian Sea on behalf of the British Russia Company were brought to light in Jonas Hanway's 'An Historical Account of the British Trade over the Caspian Sea.' Woodroofe's adventures on the Caspian would have been entirely lost to posterity were part of his journals not reproduced in Hanway's work, along with a superbly detailed chart of the relevant sea. Engraved by John Gibson and published in Hanway's 'An Historical Account,' the details of the chart are credited both to Woodroofe and his superior officer, John Elton.
The most detailed chart of the Caspian Sea of the mid-18th century.
A Plain Chart of the Caspian-Sea, According to the Observations of Capt. John Elton, Author of Elton's Quadrant, and Thomas Woodroofe, Master of the British Ship Empress of Russia, Who navigated this Sea three years; Presented to Mr. Jonas Hanway of St. Petersburgh in 1745 by his most Obedient Servant Thomas Woodroofe.
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This superbly detailed chart of the Caspian Sea, engraved by John Gibson in 1753, was the first detailed charting of that sea following the work of Carl Van Verden, and arguably the better chart. It was produced for inclusion in Jonas Hanway's An Historical Account of the British Trade Over the Caspian Sea and relies on details provided Hanway by captains John Elton and Thomas Woodroofe, whose accounts have been preserved nowhere but in Hanway's work. (more details)