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Malta: Delimara Fort. Two plans: (1) Admiralty chart 2628, with manuscript title...
Catalogue reference: WO 78/5295
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This record is about the Malta: Delimara Fort. Two plans: (1) Admiralty chart 2628, with manuscript title... dating from 1860-1911 in the series War Office and predecessors: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- WO 78/5295
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1860-1911
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Description (What the record is about)
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Malta: Delimara Fort. Two plans: (1) Admiralty chart 2628, with manuscript title 'Delimara 9.2 Battery. Site of P.F. [Position Finding] Cells'. Coloured manuscript additions show arcs of view and fire from Forts Delimara and Silch and Wied Znuber. Compass variation 1900. (2) 'Malta Delimara Wied Znuber Ta Silch P.F. [Position Finding] Cells for 9.2 Battery'. Plans, sections and elevations. Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet. Compass indicator. Signed by Lieutenant C J W Vasey, Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant Colonel M L Carleton, Commanding Royal Engineer, 16 August 1911. Both initialled by Quarter Master Sergeant H M, Royal Engineers, 1 July 1911, and signed by Lieutenant Colonel W G Lawrie, Commanding Royal Engineer, 14 August and 9 September 1911, and Lieutenant Colonel G F H Le Breton-Simmons, Commanding Royal Engineer, 9 September 1911. Dimensions: (2) 91 cm x 57 cm.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- No. of Sheets: 2
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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- MS, pencil, coloured, on tracing paper
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 3026.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3274237/
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