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North America, W Coast: Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver Island, SE Coast and...

Catalogue reference: ADM 344/2131

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This record is about the North America, W Coast: Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver Island, SE Coast and... dating from 1849 Jan 01 - 1906 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 344/2131
Date
1849 Jan 01 - 1906 Dec 31
Description

North America, W Coast: Canada: British Columbia: Vancouver Island, SE Coast and Haro Strait, vicinity; seven items on one sheet: item 1, 'View C - Clearing Marks to pass outside Atkins Reef - SW Bluff of Galiano Island on with Mount Parke E1/4S', (Radclyffe and Richards, 1858?), annotated; item 2, 'View E - Mark to lead W of Enterprise Reef, Trincomalee Channel; E point of Moresby Island open of W point of Pender Island SE1/2S', (Richards, 1858?); item 3, 'Land about Bodega', (William Chimmo, HMS Herald, c1849?); item 4, 'Passage between Sidney and Darcy Islands' and 'Clearing Marks for Sidney Channel'; item 5, 'View of Active Pass L[igh]t Ho[use] on Georgina Point, Mayne Island, bearing NE' from Captain J F Parry, HMS Egeria, 1905; item 6, 'Georgina Point - Active Pass' (Light House), (Deputy Minister of Marine, Ottawa); item 7, 'Portlock Point Lt Ho bearing about 295 (T) distant 15 Cables' from US Lights List, c1896

Note
Items 1 and 4, tracing; item 2, pen and ink; item 3, monochrome watercolour; items 5-7, tracing
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folio 8B, item 5, page 6; West Coast of North America vol. II (Nautical Papers 25), pages 171-193; V10393, V10522 and V10692; item 5, enclosure to S45/1906; item 6, H12/1894 and H338/1894
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Open Document, Open Description
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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11441152/

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Admiralty: Hydrographic Department: Coastal and Riverine Views

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