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West Indies: Bahamas: Fort Nassau. 7 items. (4-7) Four sheet of drawings of a proposed...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/886
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This record is about the West Indies: Bahamas: Fort Nassau. 7 items. (4-7) Four sheet of drawings of a proposed... dating from 1824 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- WO 78/886
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1824
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Description (What the record is about)
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West Indies: Bahamas: Fort Nassau. 7 items. (4-7) Four sheet of drawings of a proposed barrack for 200 men: (4) plan and elevation; (5) detail of ironwork; (6) details for the end galleries and staircases; (7) section of the barrack. Reference table to item (7) detailing components; various reference notes and calculations to items (4-6). Scale: (4) 1 inch to 8 feet [1:96]; (5-6) 1 inch to 1 foot [1:12]; (7) 1 inch to 2 feet [1:24]. Item (4) drawn by S B Howlett, Royal Military Surveyor, 18 October 1824. (1-3) Three sheets of related notes and calculations; the dorse of item (1) signed by General Fanshawe. Originally produced to accompany a letter from General Mann to the Board of Ordnance, 18 October 1824; this letter is not filed with the drawings.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- C 22
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- MS, coloured
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 3134
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