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Enclosure book for Minute book number 28 [Ref no: MB 28]

Catalogue reference: MBE 3

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This record is a file about the Enclosure book for Minute book number 28 [Ref no: MB 28] dating from Aug 1883 - Jan 1885.

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MBE 3
Title
Enclosure book for Minute book number 28 [Ref no: MB 28]
Date
Aug 1883 - Jan 1885
Description

Attached envelope, 'Striking of the 'Surrey' on an unknown danger in the Mediterranean', containing folded survey, chart number 145, 'Mediterranean, Sardinia to Malta, including Sicily', depicting Sicily, Malta and Tunis, page 13.
Attached pull-out survey, chart number 2011, Wales, Holyhead Harbour, Surveyed by Staff Commander T H [Thomas Henry] Tizard, Royal Navy, Assisted by Staff Commander C H [Charles Henry] Langdon & Mr G Jamieson, Royal Navy, 1880. Topography from Captain F W [Frederick William] Beechey's Survey of 1840, annotated with 'Space occupied by Defence as at present moored with two anchors', page 38.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, chart number 2045, England, South Coast, Owers to Christchurch with Spithead and the Isle of Wight, surveyed by W L [William Louis] Sheringham, Royal Navy, 1848, with corrections to the latest date, page 79.
Attached envelope, 'Grounding of HMS 'Serapis' on Shambles Shoal, 26th December 1883, Chart of Locality', containing fold-out chart cutting, England, South Coast, Portland to Owers, from the various Admiralty Surveys by Captain [William Louis] Sheringham, 1848, and Staff Captain J [John] Parsons and the Officers of HMS 'Porcupine', 1878, page 122.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, chart number 2040, The Solent, Hurst Point to Cowes and Southampton Water, The Solent surveyed by Captain J [John] Parsons, Assisted by Staff Commander T [Thomas] Tizard, J E [James Edmond] Coghlan, and W [William] Pearce, HMS Porcupine, 1879, Southampton Water by Staff Commander D [Daniel] Hall, 1875, page 137.
Attached fold-out survey, cutting of chart number 144, Gibraltar, The Topography from the Ordnance Plan 1868, the Soundings by Captain W H [William Henry] Smyth, Royal Navy, KSF, 1831, with additional soundings by Mr Frembly 1849, Commander J [Joseph] Dayman & Mr J [James] Bodie, Master, Royal Navy, 1859, Published at the Admiralty 27th July 1869, under the Superintendence of Captain G H [George Henry] Richards, Royal Navy, FRS, Hydrographer, page 163.
Attached fold-out survey, chart number 1951, England, West Coast, Liverpool Bay, re-surveyed by Staff Commander G H [Graham Hewett] Hills, Royal Navy, Marine Surveyor to the Mersey Dock & Harbour Board 1875 - 9, The Entrance to the River Dee by Staff Commanders J [John] Richards & W B [William Bernard] Culver, 1870, page 184.
Attached envelope, 'Oil experiments at Folkestone', containing folded document, tied up with pink bow, containing folded survey, chart number 1991, England, South East Coast, Folkestone Harbour, surveyed by Staff Commander J [John] Parsons, Royal Navy, Assisted by Staff Commander J H [John H] Ellis, & Navigating Lieutenant G A [George Alexander] Browning, HMS Porcupine, 1873, page 186.
Attached survey, cutting of chart number 2253, England - South Coast, Dartmouth Harbour, surveyed by Captain [William Louis] Sheringham, Lieutenant H L [Henry Laird] Cox and Messrs F J [Frederick J] Evans & J S [John Scott] Taylor, Master, Royal Navy, dated 1853, showing Combe Creek, Kingswear, Hoo Down and the Dartmouth & Torbay Railway, page 211.
Fold-out survey, chart number 1777, Ireland - South Coast, Queenstown and Cork Outer Harbour, surveyed by Commanders J [James] Wolfe & W H [William Harvey] Church, 1843, page 212.
Attached envelope, 'Greely Relief Expedition', 'On Her Majesty's Service', containing the following documents: firstly, a list of Leaders for North Polar Expeditions and the centuries they travelled; secondly, a booklet, Preliminary Report of Board of Officers to consider an expedition for the relief of Lieut Greely and Party, by Authority of the Secretary of War, from the Washington City Signal Office, dated 1884, signed by Captain A H [Albert Hastings] Markham, HMS 'Vernon' ; thirdly, Notes on the United States (Greely's) Arctic Expedition 1881 - 4, signed by Frederick John Evans, Hydrographer, dated 22nd March 1884; fourthly, fold-out survey depicting Iceland, Greenland and the Davis Strait, annotated with 'Greely's Station', shown on the chart near Lady Franklin Sound, page 259.
Attached cutting of chart number 882, England - South Coast, Tamar River, surveyed by Captain J [John] Lort Stokes, Royal Navy, 1862, page 262.
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, annotated with 'Alteration of buoyage leading to Duke of Edinburgh Channel, Proposed by Captain Lord Walter T [Talbot] Kerr and forwarded by Commander in Chief at Sheerness in letter number 215 dated 29 March 1884', page 278.
Attached envelope, containing the following documents: firstly, a folded letter from 8 Great George Street, Westminster, SW, signed by a Mr Rendel, and addressed to Sir Evans, Admiralty, dated 11th June 1884; secondly, fold-out survey, Tees Bay, Plan showing Works lately constructed & in course of construction for the improvement of the River Tees, and Proposed National Harbour at its mouth, as described in Mr Rendel's Report to the Tees and Hartlepool Commissioners, dated 26th June, 1883, page 296.
Attached sketch showing Bagadry District, Katanu, Appa and Pokra Territories and Port Novo, Nigeria, annotated with 'Copy of Map sketched under the instruction of Mr Thomas Tickel at Bagadry, April 25th 1883, by George E Fergusson', page 338.
Attached envelope, 'Chart', containing the following documents: note from the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, SW, 'Spherical buoys are only to be placed at the 'ends' of middle grounds; - the intention being that they should indicate a channel on either hand', dated 15th August 1884; also attached to folded chart number 1777, Ireland - South Coast, Queenstown and Cork Outer Harbour, surveyed by Commanders J [James] Wolfe & W H [William Harvey] Church, 1843, page 478.
Attached cutting of chart number 1777, Ireland - South Coast, Queenstown and Cork Outer Harbour, surveyed by Commanders J [James] Wolfe & W H [William Harvey] Church, 1843, page 495.
Attached envelope, 'Amended Special Lifeboat signals, and General instructions to Masters etc of light vessels', containing the following documents: firstly, folded document, 'Regulations to be Observed by the Masters, Mates and Crews of light vessels of the Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford-Sound', 'Trinity House, London, July 1874, Printed for Her Majesty's Stationery Office by Ford and Tilt, 52, Long Acre, London, WC' ; secondly, folded document, 'Special Life Boat Signals', By Order, J [James] Inglis, Secretary, Trinity House, London, EC, dated 6th May 1884, page 499.
Attached envelope, containing folded chart number 499, West Indies, Island of St Lucia, Port Castries, surveyed by J [John] Parsons, Master, Royal Navy, Assisted by J P [John Patrick] Dillon & W B [William Bernard] Calver, Masters, Royal Navy, 1863, page 570

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United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) Archive
Physical condition
Label torn and illegible
Record URL
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