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Malta: Valletta: 'Malta Record Plan of Submarine Mining Establishment'. Two plans:...

Catalogue reference: WO 78/2942

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WO 78/2942
Date
1877
Description

Malta: Valletta: 'Malta Record Plan of Submarine Mining Establishment'. Two plans: (1) Plans and sections of loading shed, gun cotton store, torpedo store, Lascaris Counterguard, tunnel and wharf. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet and 1 inch to 20 feet. Measured and drawn by Lieutenant Corporal [?T C] Corry, Royal Engineers. (2) Site plan. Reference table. Scale: 1:1,000. Compass star. Copied by Corry 'from Armament Book'. Both signed by Lieutenant E J Dewing, Royal Engineers, 13 July 1877, and Colonel Henry Wray, Commanding Royal Engineer, 28 July 1877. Filed with sheet of photographs and 'descriptive sheet' containing information about the history, construction, ventilation and drainage of subway.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
F 291
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Dimensions
97 cm x 63 cm
Physical condition
MS, coloured
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Administrative / biographical background
Publication note(s)
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 3428.
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3271886/

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