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Enclosure book for Minute book number 27 [Ref no: MB 27]

Catalogue reference: MBE 2

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This record is a file about the Enclosure book for Minute book number 27 [Ref no: MB 27] dating from Dec 1882 - Apr 1883.

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Reference
MBE 2
Title
Enclosure book for Minute book number 27 [Ref no: MB 27]
Date
Dec 1882 - Apr 1883
Description

Attached fold-out chart cutting, depicting Prince Edward Island, Canada, including Milne Bank, and the site at East Point where HMS 'Phoenix' grounded on the 12th September 1882, page 44
Attached mini chart cutting, chart number 30, Plymouth Sound and Hamoaze, including the Stonehouse and St Nicholas or Drake's Island, page 73.
Attached chart cutting, depicting the Medway, Gillingham and Sovereign Reaches, Hoo Flat and West Hoo Creek, Kent, published according to Act of Parliament at the Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty, November 6th 1847, Corrections 1869, page 79.
Attached fold-out chart, depicting Plymouth, including Turnchapel, Mt Batten and Cattewater, showing the proposed site of a new railway, page 84.
Attached envelope, 'Queenstown Port and Harbour Bill, Chart of Cork Harbour', containing folded chart number 1765, 'Ireland, South Coast, Cork Harbour, surveyed by Commander James Wolfe & Lieutenant W H [William Harvey] Church, Royal Navy, 1843', dated 3rd January 1883, page 86.
Attached pull-out chart cutting, depicting Portsmouth, Hampshire, and the proposed wharf next to Portsea Island Gas Works, page 99.
Attached survey, chart number 4, 'Diego Garcia, by Commander R [Richard] Moresby, Indian Navy, Additions by Navigating 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', annotated with 'Hydrographer's Submission, 5th March, on Orient Steam Navigation Company's letter 21st February 1883', page 127.
Attached chart cutting, depicting Liverpool, Birkenhead, Cheshire and the River Mersey, page 140.
Attached pull-out survey, depicting Portland, Chesil Bank and the Man of War Anchorages, annotated with 'Position of Coal Hulks (proposed), Letter from Harbour Master dated 15th March 1883', page 159.
Attached chart, depicting Portland, Chesilton and the Merchant Ships Anchorage off Castletown, annotated with 'Copy of Chart accompanying Staff Commander [Alfred E] Haynes's report on positions for coal hulks at Portland - Commander in Chief Portsmouth 15th April 1883', page 197.
Attached cutting of chart number 1951, England, West Coast, Liverpool Bay, Surveyed by Lieutenant Parks Royal Navy, 1858. Published at the Admiralty 1st January 1859 under the Superintendence of Captain [John] Washington Royal Navy FRS, Hydrographer, page 198.
Attached envelope, 'Cowes Harbour', containing fold-out survey, torn down half of the bottom, depicting Cowes, Isle of Wight, including the Shrape Mud, annotated with 'Proposed moorings for the boats of HMS Osborne, in letter from Commander in Chief, Portsmouth, dated 18th April 1883', page 201.
Attached cutting of chart number 40, West Coast of India, Sindh, Karachi Harbour, surveyed by Lieutenant A M Grieve, Indian Navy, assisted by Lieutenants Constable & Barker & other Officers of the Indian Navy 1854, page 257.
Attached envelope, 'Chart of Gibraltar, In re Coal Hulks', containing folded survey, chart number 144, 'Gibraltar, the Topography from the Ordnance Survey 1868, the Soundings North of the New Mole by Captain G S [George Strong] Nares, Royal Navy, & the Officers of HMS Shearwater, 1871. The remainder by Captain W H [William Henry] Smyth and other Officers of the Royal Navy', page 283.
Attached chart cutting, depicting the Isle of Sheppey, including the Four Fathoms Channel, Great Nore, Cheney Spit and The Cant, annotated with 'Range of proposed practice battery, letter from Commander in Chief, Sheerness, dated 18th May 1883, page 288.
Attached envelope, 'Reconnaissance Sketches of Arabia Petraea and Wady Sudr (Zellaps), Professor Palmer Search Expedition', containing 2 folded sketches; firstly, Reconnaissance of Arabia Petraea, made by the Palmer Search Expedition, under the direction of Colonel C Warren, CMC, signed by Alfred E Haynes, Lieutenant RE, dated 10th April 1883; secondly, Reconnaissance Sketch of a portion of Wady Sudr, made under the direction of Colonel C Warren CMG, RE, for the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, signed by Alfred E Haynes, Lieutenant RE, dated 17th April 1883, page 290.
Attached envelope, 'Boundary of Queensland', containing folded survey, cutting of chart number 2759a, Australia, and the adjacent islands and seas between its Northern Coast and the Equator, Australia and the SE portion of New Guinea compiled from the Surveys of Captains Flinders, King, Wickham, Stokes, Blackwood, Stanley, [Henry M] Denham and Commander Yule, Royal Navy. Arafura, Banda and Java Seas chiefly from the Dutch Surveys; the Northern Coast of New Guinea, New Britain and New Ireland etc from the French Surveys with Additions and Corrections by Captain Sir E [Edward] Belcher & Owen Stanley, Royal Navy. Compiled by Mr F J [Frederick J] Evans, Master, Royal Navy, page 314.
Attached envelope, 'Portland Harbour, In re 'Great Eastern' Steam Ship', containing fold-out survey, depicting Portland Harbour, the Merchant Ships Anchorage and the Man of War Anchorage, page 329.
Attached envelope, 'Pembroke Reach, In re Great Western Railway and removal of two lights', containing fold-out survey, chart number 2393, Pembroke Reach, surveyed by Navigating Lieutenant C H [Charles H] Langdon & G Jamieson, Royal Navy, under the direction of Staff Commander G [George] Stanley, Royal Navy, 1877, page 341.
Attached envelope, 'Perim Island, Proposed positions of Lights, also tracing showing limits of the concession', containing the following documents; firstly, folded tracing of the Island of Perim, annotated with 'Copy plan on lease to the Perim Coal Company Ltd dated 24th April 1883' ; secondly, folded survey, cutting of chart number 2592, Red Sea, Perim Island (or Meyun) and Bab-el-Mandeb Small Strait, surveyed by the Officers of HMS 'Nassau', under the direction of Lieutenant F J [Francis John] Gray, Commanding, 1874, page 345.
Attached envelope, 'Proposed Railway between, Halifax and Dartmouth', containing folded chart depicting Halifax and Dartmouth, Canada, and the proposed new Railway in between, page 351.
Attached fold-out chart, depicting Portland and Chesilton, England, the Merchant Ships Anchorage and the position of coal hulks, also page 351.
Attached fold-out survey, 'Loss of Fidra', annotated with 'Route supposed by owner (vessel left Newcastle 9th May 1883) and the probable one taken', showing the route that Fidra was to take, starting at Newcastle, Australia and finishing at Hong Kong; she was actually lost en route in 1883, page 356.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, 'Grounding of Lord Warden in Cromarty Firth', showing Cromarty and Nigg Bay, the Highland area of Scotland, annotated with 'Reported position of buoy' and 'Position of Lord Warden when aground by five bearings', page 372.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, 'Portland, In re Great Eastern SS', depicting the Merchant Ships and the Man of War Anchorages off the coast of Portland, page 428.
Attached envelope, 'Track chart of the World', containing folded chart number 2558, 'Track Chart of the World', Published at the Admiralty 21st January 1874, under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral G H [George Henry] Richards, CB-FRS, Hydrographer, page 441.
Chart cutting, depicting Chatham, Rochester and Brompton, Medway, Kent, page 473.
Attached pull-out chart cutting, chart number 1446, depicting Aberdeen Bay and the River Dee, annotated with 'The red ink notations are from a tracing illustrating the works proposed by the Engineer of the Aberdeen Harbour board, for the formation of a National Refuge Harbour', dated 19th December 1882, looks like some earlier pages were added here, so this is page 29.
Attached fold-out chartlet, 'England, East Coast, Filey Bay, Surveyed by Captain J [John] Washington, Royal Navy, 1844', page 33

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United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) Archive
Former department reference
HH 66
Record URL
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Enclosure book for Minute book number 27 [Ref no: MB 27]