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'Gibraltar Harbour': [?unpublished Admiralty chart] showing soundings in feet. Scale:...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/2412
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- WO 78/2412
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1895-1899
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Description (What the record is about)
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'Gibraltar Harbour': [?unpublished Admiralty chart] showing soundings in feet. Scale: 1 inch to about 280 feet. Compass rose. Surveyed by Lieutenant C H Simpson, Royal Navy, and assistants, HMS Stork, 1895. Insets: two sections: scale: 1 inch to 32 feet [1:384]. Coloured overprinting shows dock areas proposed to be dredged; overprinted reference table. MS note dated 1899.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- F 442
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Map scale (The scale of a map, plan or drawing)
- 1:3360
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- Engraved
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3271356/
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