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East China Sea: China and Taiwan (Formosa): approaches to Fuzhou (Foochow) and Chi-Lung,...

Catalogue reference: ADM 344/1513

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This record is about the East China Sea: China and Taiwan (Formosa): approaches to Fuzhou (Foochow) and Chi-Lung,... dating from 1844 Jan 01 - 1885 Dec 31 in the series Admiralty: Hydrographic Department: Coastal and Riverine Views. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ADM 344/1513
Date
1844 Jan 01 - 1885 Dec 31
Description

East China Sea: China and Taiwan (Formosa): approaches to Fuzhou (Foochow) and Chi-Lung, vicinity; five items on one sheet: item 1, 'Formosa Island - Mark to clear Audacious Rock (N of Kelung Harbour)' by Lt G Gunn RN (HMS Flying Fish, Captain J P Maclear?); item 2, 'Outline Tungying bearing NW by W distant 18 Miles (Lat 26 25'N; Long 120 40'E)' from HMS Sappho, 1884, annotated; item 3, 'Cony Island as seen at night passing to W'ward' by H J Woods, HMS Cormorant, 1865; item 4, 'Tungying Islands', annotated; item 5, 'Spider Point', 'Cony Island', 'Larne Island' and 'Entrance Islands', (A P Greene, HMS Plover, Captain R C Collinson, c1844?)

Note
Item 1, pen and ink with sepia watercolour; item 2, pen and ink; item 3, monochrome watercolour; item 4, pen and ink; item 5, print
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folio 5A, item 28, page 28; China Sea Pilot vol. III (Nautical Papers 32), pages 229-252; V11321(b); item 1, enclosure to S101/1877
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11440404/

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