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Caribbean Sea: West Indies: Lesser Antilles: Windward Islands: Barbados; two items...

Catalogue reference: ADM 344/2507

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This record is about the Caribbean Sea: West Indies: Lesser Antilles: Windward Islands: Barbados; two items... dating from 1897 Jan 01 - 1898 Dec 31 in the series Admiralty: Hydrographic Department: Coastal and Riverine Views. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
ADM 344/2507
Date
1897 Jan 01 - 1898 Dec 31
Description

Caribbean Sea: West Indies: Lesser Antilles: Windward Islands: Barbados; two items on one sheet: item 1, 'No 1 - Elevation of a Light-house, proposed to (be) erected on windward side of Island of Barbados' (Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet), by Lt Leicester V Smith, Royal Engineers, assigned Colonel C F Smith, Royal Engineers; item 2, 'View from Anchorage off Engineers Wharf, L[igh]t Ho[use] bearing S1/2E, and Flag Staff, St Ann's SE1/4E' from 'Remark Book, HMS Pelican, 1897, F Massy-Dawson Lieut (N)' showing 'Beckwith Battery (in ruins)' and 'Charles Fort (ruins)'

Note
Item 1, watercolour; item 2, pen and ink
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folio 8H, item 32, page 33; West Indies (Nautical Papers 71-West Indies Pilot vol. II), page 136; V10571
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11441614/

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ADM 344

Admiralty: Hydrographic Department: Coastal and Riverine Views

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