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Enclosure book for Minute book number 30 [Ref no: MB 30]

Catalogue reference: MBE 5

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MBE 5
Title
Enclosure book for Minute book number 30 [Ref no: MB 30]
Date
Sept 1885 - Aug 1886
Description

Attached envelope, 'Plan - Cattewater, Anchorage of Merchant Vessels etc at Turnchapel Rock', containing folded tracing entitled 'Cattewater, Anchorage of Merchant Vessels etc at Turnchapel Rock', page 10.
Attached envelope, 'Plan showing friendly channel into Malta, Grand Harbour and Marsa Musciet', containing folded plan showing the friendly channel into Malta, including Grand Harbour, Marsa Musciet and Valetta, annotated with 'Copy of enclosure to Commander in Chief Mediterranean letter 6th August 1885', signed by Staff Commanders T [Thomas] Pounds and G J [George James] Tomlin, page 28.
Attached cutting of chart number 4, Diego Garcia by Commander R Moresby, Indian Navy, Additions by Lieutenant J [James] Cuddy, HMS Eclipse, 1881 and also from an examination of the anchorages within the Reefs made by Staff Commander [Henry Yorke] Slader, Royal Navy, 1882, page 78.
Attached chart cutting, depicting Cape Leeuwin, Western Australia, annotated with 'Position proposed by Staff Commander Coghlan', and 'Referring to Proposed Light or Lights in Neighbourhood of Cape Leeuwin', signed by J E [James E] Coghlan, dated 11th July 1885, page 87.
Attached cutting of chart number 1037, Anchorages on the South West Coast of Australia, surveyed by Staff Commander W E [William Edwin] Archdeacon, Royal Navy, assisted by Navigating Lieutenant W [William] Tooker, Royal Navy, 1878, annotated with 'Proposed site for a Light as marked on tracing accompanying Hydrographer's submission of 28th October 1885', page 87.
Attached envelope, 'Mount Wise Time Signal', containing folded 3-part diagram of Time Signal, including cross-sections, page 93.
Attached pull-out chart cutting, chart number 2011, Wales, Holyhead Harbour, Surveyed by Staff Commander T H [Thomas Henry] Tizard, Royal Navy, Assisted by Staff Commander C H [Charles H] Langdon and Mr G Jamieson, Royal Navy, 1880. Topography from Captain F W [Frederick William] Beechey's Survey of 1840, page 102.
Attached fold-out cutting of chart number 1607 - River Thames, North Foreland to the Nore, Surveyed by Staff Commander E K [Edward Killwick] Calver, Royal Navy, assisted by E C [Edwin Charles] Davison, Paymaster, & G H [George Hastings] Inskip, Master, Royal Navy, 1862 - 3, page 113.
Attached envelope, 'Measured Miles', containing another - empty - envelope annotated 'See list in Handy Reference Box', page 117.
Attached pull-out survey, depicting Papua or New Guinea, Gulf of Carpentaria and the Solomon Islands, annotated with 'With 'Myrmidon's Hydrographical Instructions', page 114, these pages are in slightly the wrong order.
Attached envelope 'Grounding of 'Assistance', Chart in re', containing folded cutting of chart number 62a, showing Jersey, the proper track into the Anchorage, and the actual Track that the 'Assistance' took before she grounded at 10am on November 4th 1885, between North Ridge and Middle Bank, page 126.
Attached cutting from chart 594, Africa, West Coast, Coast of Guinea, River Gambia to Cape Lopez and Anno Bom, including the Bight of Biafra, Compiled from the latest Government Surveys to 1885, page 156.
Attached cutting from chart 600, West Coast of Africa, from Cape Roxo to Isles Do Los, Surveyed by Captain W F W [William Fitzwilliam] Owen, Commander E [Edward] Belcher and Lieutenant W [William] Arlett, 1826 - 1834, also page 156.
Another cutting from chart 594, showing Sierra Leone, Africa, West Coast, Coast of Guinea, River Gambia to Cape Lopez and Anno Bom, including the Bight of Biafra, Compiled from the latest Government Surveys to 1885, also page 156.
Attached envelope, 'Washington PM Conference (Correspondence)', containing 2 letters from the Science and Art Department, London, both entitled 'Washington Prime Meridian Conference', one dated 22nd January 1886, and the other dated 22nd March 1886, page 182.
Attached chart cutting, Diego Garcia by Commander R [Richard] Moresby, Indian Navy, Additions by Lieutenant J [James] Cuddy, HMS Eclipse, 1881 and also from an examination of the anchorages within the Reefs made by Staff Commander [Henry Yorke] Slader, Royal Navy, 1882, page 199.
Attached pull-out chart cutting, depicting Peterhead and Sandford Bays, Aberdeenshire, Southeast Scotland, annotated with 'Plan by Sir John Coode, attached to Bill 1886', showing the Proposed Railway, page 208.
Attached cutting of chart number 573, The Road of La Guayra, the Port of Caracan, Reported by Commander Ryan, United States Navy, Published according to Act of Parliament by Captain Hurd Royal Navy Hydrographer, page 249.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, 'Grounding of Nelson', showing the Track of Nelson and where she touched on 5th December 1885, near to Parsley Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Entrance of the Port, with Additions by Navigating Lieutenant J T [John Thomas] Gowlland, Royal Navy, 1869, Corrected by an examination by Lieutenant G E [George Edward] Richards, Royal Navy 1878, page 253.
Attached chart cutting, 'Almanie Samodu, Advance towards Sierra Leone', showing a track from Port Lokoh near to Sierra Leone, ending in Sanakotoh, Mali, Africa, page 266.
Attached envelope, 'Western Pacific, British and German Spheres of interest in', containing folded survey cutting, annotated with 'To illustrate draft proposal of an agreement between Great Britain and Germany (C O Letter, 17th February, 1886)', showing groups of islands off the coast of Australia, east of Papua New Guinea, including Caroline, Gilbert, New Caledonia and Solomon Islands, and annotated with the interests of each country e.g. British Interests, German Interests, Samoa and Friendly Islands to be neutral, etc, page 284.
Attached chart cutting, 'Coal Hulks at Portland', annotated with 'Staff Commander Dodd's Report', dated the 15th March 1886, signed by W L [William L] Dodd, page 351.
Attached chart cutting 'Alaska Boundary', chart number 2431, North Pacific Ocean, Russian America, Cordova Bay to Cross Sound including the Koloschensk Archipelago, chiefly from Vancouver's Survey in 1792, corrected from a Russian chart published in 1853, this portion of the chart is blank, and annotated with a report from the Hydrographer, page 366.
2 attached chart cuttings showing St Lucia, South Africa, including St Lucia Lake and St Lucia Bay, and the Umvolosi River, page 422.
Attached chart cutting, 'National African Company', annotated with 'Limit of territory included in proposed Charter to National African Company (F O Letter 14th May 1886)', showing Benin and Yoruba, West Africa, page 442.
Attached fold-out cutting of chart number 2351, 'Cape Tribulation to Cape Flattery - 'Endeavour' aground 10th June 1770', Australia, East Coast, Cape Tribulation to Cape Flattery and the Barrier Reefs, by Captain O [Owen] Stanley, Lieutenant C B [Charles Bampfield] Yule, J [Joseph] Dayman, H G [Henry George] Simpson, and Mr [Thomas Peter] Dobree, Masters Assistant, HMS Rattlesnake, 1843 - 48, annotated with 'Shows approximate position of 'Endeavour' aground 10th June 1770', page 446.
Attached tracing, West Indies, Barbados, showing the proposed new buoys objected to by HMS 'Druid' and the Present position of Mail St Buoys, including the Man of War Anchorage, West Indies, page 474.
Attached fold-out cutting of chart number 1380, 'Banks Islands', South West Pacific, New Caledonia, New Hebrides & Loyalty Islands, Banks Islands and the Eastern part of New Hebrides Group compiled from running surveys by Messrs T [Thomas] Kerr & T C Tilley of the Mission Schooner 'Southern Cross', 1861 - 9, showing the Banks Islands, page 517.
Attached envelope, 'Milford Haven, Channel Squad and Military Operations at', containing the following documents: firstly, Notice to Mariners number 178, England - West Coast, Milford Haven, Temporary Exhibition of Lights near Torpedo Ground in the Main Channel, dated 24th July 1886 and written by W J L [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer; secondly, folded cutting of chart number 2393, England, West Coast, Milford Haven, Surveyed by Staff Commander W E [William E] Archdeacon, Royal Navy, Assisted by Staff Commanders J G [John G] Boulton & F W [Frederick William] Jarrad & Mr G Jamieson, Royal Navy, 1882, Pembroke Reach Surveyed by Staff Commander G [George] Stanley, Royal Navy, 1877, Turbot Bank and offshore soundings from Commander Alldridge's Survey, 1852 - 4, page 525

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Enclosure book for Minute book number 30 [Ref no: MB 30]