Enclosure book for Minute book number 39 [Ref no: MB 39]

Minute book number 39 (b):
Attached fold-out chart cutting, England, South Coast, Weymouth and Portland, Surveyed by Captain [William Louis] Sheringham, Lieutenant [Henry Laird] Cox & Mr [John Scott] Taylor, Royal Navy, 1850, Portland Harbour by Staff Commander D [Daniel] Hall & Navigating Lieutenant F J [Frederick John] Ray, Royal Navy, 1872, page 1.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, depicting Weymouth, Portland, West Bay, Chesil Bank, Weymouth Road and Portland Harbour, marked with 'Area for firing from Nothe Fort', 'Area for firing from Vern and Weare Forts' and 'Area for firing from Breakwater Fort', also page 1.
Attached chart cutting, depicting Devonport, Stoke Damerell, Stonehouse Lake, Higher Stoke and Stoke, Plymouth, Devon, England, page 44.
Attached envelope, 'Dover', containing notes entitled 'Formation of a large harbour at Dover for Naval purposes, Remarks by the Hydrographer', along with large folded tracing 'Dover Harbour as proposed by Hydrographer, Black work traced from Chart 1698', 'Plan 2, Plan 1 was a copy of the 1844 plan sent on by DW in this paper', showing Dover Harbour and annotated with the following, 'Six Mooring Berths for Vessels 250 feet long', 'Six Mooring Berths for Vessels 300 feet in length' and 'Mooring space available for Eleven Battleships of size of Royal Sovereign', page 60.
Loose envelope, 'Enclosure to H', 'Description of Enclosures, Plan of Smallhanger China Clay Works, Plan of Ivybridge', containing folded Plan, 'China Clay Works, Discharge of Refuse into River Laira, Plan to Accompany Report dated September 1895', showing Smallhanger China Clay Works, Aqueduct and Clay Pits, Crownhill Down; along with folded chart, 'Ivybridge', sheet 349, Ordnance Survey of England, showing Ivybridge and surrounding areas, with Plymouth to the West, Kingsbridge to the South, Torquay to the East and Dartmoor Forest to the North, Engraved at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, under the direction of Major C R Conder, RE, the Outline by J Racine, the Writing by J Darling, the Ornament by A Muir, Published by Colonel Sir C W Wilson, Director General, December 1892, now attached at page 82.
Attached small chart cutting, depicting Milford Haven, Pembroke Dock, West Freshwater Bay, the River Cleddau and the Entrance to the Bristol Channel, South West Wales, page 92.
Attached small fold-out chart cutting, location unknown, used to demonstrate the 'Reduction of the Meridian', attached to notes entitled 'Method of obtaining the Reduction of the Meridian, devised by Mr John White BA, Naval Instructor, HMS Hawke', written by the Hydrographer, dated 19th October 1895, page 112.
Attached fold-out plan, 'H M Dockyard Chatham, Protective Works Hoo Ness, Plan showing site of New Works', including Gillingham Reach, West Hoo Creek, Hoo Fort and Pinup Reach, signed by T Sims, Superintending CE, page 140.
Attached envelope, 'Chronometer Box in Torpedo Boat Destroyers' containing folded plan 'Sketch of Box for Deck Watch, as used on Torpedo Boat Destroyers, As forwarded to Overseer for guidance on 'Zebra' November 1894', showing 4 diagrams of the Deck Watch, 'Full Size', 'Side Elevation', 'Front Elevation' and 'Section' being the headings, page 141.
Attached fold-out chart, depicting Portsmouth, Chichester Bar, Bembridge Point, The Solent, annotated with 'No 1 Area', and 'No 2 Area', page 145.
Attached fold-out survey, presumed to be Gibraltar, including Ceuta Bay, Almadraba Bay, Vina Rock and Campo Rocks, marked with proposed jetties, page 181.
Attached envelope, 'Light at Cape Leeuwin', containing the following documents: firstly, letter from C R Russell, dated 2nd April 1896, entitled 'Cape Leeuwin, Subsidiary Light' ; included with another sheet entitled 'Remarks by Captain Russell on Admiral W J [William James Lloyd] Wharton's letter on 12th December 1895' ; secondly, letter from the Office of Agent General for Western Australia, 15 Victoria Street, Westminster, London, SW, addressed to W J L [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer of the Admiralty, dated the 7th July 1896; thirdly, letter from J E [James Edmond] Coghlan, Staff Commander, Royal Navy, dated 2nd July 1893, addressed to 68 Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, NW, offering advice on the colour of lights at Cape Leeuwin; fourthly, 'extract from letter of Messrs Chance Bros to the Agent General for Western Australia, dated 13th June 1893' ; fifthly, 'Extracts from letter dated 7th April 1893 from the Honourable The Premier to The Agent General for Western Australia' ; sixthly, letter from the office of Agent General for Western Australia, 15, Victoria Street, Westminster, London, SW, dated the 2nd January 1896, addressed to W J L [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer, Admiralty, SW, entitled 'Cape Leeuwin' ; lastly, letter in response to J E [James Edmond] Coghlan's ideas on the colours of lights at Cape Leeuwin, voicing the writer's disagreement with putting lights there in the first place, and his reasons, which are mainly regarding the dangers of the task in question, all tied together in a pink bow, page 182.
Attached pull-out plan, entitled 'Presses for Original Documents - Hydrographic Department (to be eventually moved to a new building)', page 203.
Loose note, from the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, Whitehall, London, SW, 'Note that only one copy (No 7) of the revised and amplified report printed dated Admiralty 11th January 1896 has been received, and that it has been given to the Hydrographer', dated 6th March 1897, now attached to A4 booklet, 'Memorandum by the Hydrographer of the Admiralty on the general necessity for docks on foreign stations', page 210.
Attached small chart cutting, depicting Nor Marsh, Hoo Flats, Pinup Reach, Medway, Chatham, including Folly Point, annotated with 'Gas buoy off Folly Point to be determined later on, after dredging', page 235.
Small attached chart cutting, depicting Medway, Kent, including Sharfleet Creek, Medway Saltings, Sharpness Saltings, Kethole Reach and Stoke Ooze, also page 235.
Attached small cutting of chart number 766, Funafuti, Tuvalu Island (Ellis Island), with corrections by Lieutenant C G S [Charles Gerald Shepherd] Eeles, HMS 'Curacoa', and Lieutenant C A [Charles A] Buckland, HMS 'Royalist', 1892, Funafuti Anchorage, from a sketch by Captain E H M Davis, Royal Navy, HMS Royalist, 1892, page 265.
Attached envelope, 'Medway', containing large folded chart number 1834, England, East Coast, River Medway, Bishops Ness to Rochester, Surveyed by Staff Commander J W [John Whitly] Dixon, Royal Navy, 1886 - 7, the Topography is taken from the Ordnance Survey, annotated with Proposed Beacons, page 269.
Attached fold-out tracing of chart number 1833, England, East Coast, River Medway, Sheerness Bar to Bishops Ness, Surveyed by Staff Commander J W [John Whitly] Dixon, Royal Navy, 1886 - 7, The Soundings East of Grain Spit by Staff Commander Tizard, Royal Navy, 1888, the Topography is taken from the Ordnance Survey, tracing annotated with 'Present position of Moorings off Sheerness, according to Queen's Harbour Master', page 311.
Attached fold-out chart, depicting Plymouth, Devonport, Oreston, Turnchapel, Mount Batten, Hamoaze, Jennycliff Bay, Cawsand Bay and Milbrook Lake, Devon, annotated with 'Net Fishing not to be carried on in space marked Red', and 'To Accompany Order in Council, dated August 15th, 1890 (Plymouth)', included inside attached A5 booklet, 'Official Copy, Dockyard Ports Regulation Act, 1865, Order in Council, dated 15th August 1890, Amending the Regulations with reference to the Dockyard Port of Plymouth, page 313.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, 'Continuation of Southampton Water on same scale', including Southampton, Millbrook Point, Rivers Itchen and Test, and Dibden Bay, page 317.
2 loose sheets, firstly, Memorandum from Edward Sea, The Union, Kidderminster, dated March 23rd 1896, addressed to the Hydrographer to the Navy, discussing methods of determining the distance between two ships at sea, in foggy weather, or under circumstances where visual operations are impracticable; secondly, small newspaper cutting, describing how an inmate of the Kidderminster Union had an idea for determining the distance between two ships at sea, wrote to the Hydrographer, who in turn wrote to the Kidderminster Guardians, who then offered to assist him in his efforts, now attached to page 2 of an attached letter from the Kidderminster Union, page 334.
Attached small chart cutting, depicting Liverpool, Bootle and the River Mersey, marked with 'EC mines' either sides of the Mersey and 'Friendly Channel' in between the EC mines, annotated with 'Blue lines show proper direction of Friendly Channel if EC mines are retained', page 346
Enclosure book for Minute book number 39 (b):
Attached cutting of chart number 2268, England, South Coast, Portland Harbour, Surveyed by Staff Commander D [Daniel] Hall, Royal Navy, Assisted by Navigating Lieutenant F J [Frederick John] Ray, Royal Navy, 1872, page 421.
Attached envelope, 'Alaska Boundary', containing note dated 30th December 1895, addressed to J W Greene, signed by Alexander Begg, describing the documents it accompanies; namely, a letter addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Salisbury, from Alexander Begg, dated 26th December 1895; also, Memorandum relative to the Alaskan Boundary, written by Alexander Begg, London, 23rd December 1895, page 453.
Attached fold-out chart cutting, depicting Cape Horn, Hornos Island, southern Chile, including Gulf of Campeche and Galapagos Islands, page 484.
Attached cutting of chart number 1753, Ireland, East Coast, Belfast Lough, Surveyed by Staff Commander W E [William Edwin] Archdeacon, Royal Navy, assisted by Staff Commander J G [John G] Boulton and Mr G Jamieson, Royal Navy, 1883, Soundings Eastward of Orlock Point from Surveys by Captain [Frederick William] Beechey and R [Richard] Hoskyn, Master, Royal Navy, Assisted by Lieutenants A G [Adolphus George] Edye & D [David] Aird, H B [Henry Braddick] Yule, Master and G M [George Manly] Alldridge, Mate, Royal Navy, 1841 - 56, Coast line and Topography from Ordnance Survey, annotated with 'Proposed site for Dock', at East Twin Island, Victoria Channel, page 492.
Attached chart cutting, depicting the West coast of Gibraltar, including Rosia Bay and Fort Bastion, annotated with 'Proposed Admiralty Waters printed Red, as suggested by the Hydrographer 24th September 1896', page 507.
2 attached fold-out chart cuttings, both depicting Gibraltar; cutting A showing 'Position of Hulks on 1st July 1896', and cutting B 'Proposed Scheme of Mooring Coal Hulks, inner line to be formed of the shallow draught hulks', both page 509.
Attached chart cutting, depicting Chatham, Medway, Kent, including Brompton, Limehouse, Upnor and Chatham Reaches and Whitewall Creek, page 547.
Attached envelope, containing the following documents: firstly, letter to Admiral Seymour from W J L [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographic Department, London, SW, dated 13th July 1896, requesting a rough plan of how he managed to fit in a large fleet of ships into Plymouth Sound; secondly, list of ships entitled 'Reserve Fleet', signed by George J [James] Tomlin, Staff Captain and Queen's Harbour Master; thirdly, drawing entitled 'Plymouth Sound', showing the plot of where ships were berthed between Raverness Point and Jennycliff Bay, Plymouth, Devon, including St Nicholas or Drakes Island; fourthly, A4 notes, 'Plymouth, Number of Battleships that can be temporarily accommodated in war time for coaling purposes' ; fifthly, small note, assumed to be from George J [James] Tomlin, 'Submitted, the Fleet at Plymouth Sound in July has been plotted on the accompanying chart', dated 31st August 1896, including a reply from W J L [William James Lloyd] Wharton, 'I think it will be wise to keep this with it in Minute Book' ; and lastly, large folded chart number 1967, England, South Coast, Plymouth Sound, Surveyed by Staff Commander F [Frank] Haslewood, Royal Navy, assisted by Mr H Ashton, 1893 - 5, page 550