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5 items extracted from DEFE 2/128. France. (1) 'St Nazaire U-boat shelters': plan...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/308
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This record is about the 5 items extracted from DEFE 2/128. France. (1) 'St Nazaire U-boat shelters': plan... dating from 1941-1942 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFQ 1/308
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941-1942
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Description (What the record is about)
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5 items extracted from DEFE 2/128. France. (1) 'St Nazaire U-boat shelters': plan and sections. With diagrams of crane-carrying corbel and supports for dock corbels. 10.5 inches to 450 feet [1:514]. (2) 'S t. Nazaire "U" Boat Shelter Elevation Plans of Living Accommodation & Workshops'. Scale: 6.2 inches to 110 feet [1:212]. (3) 'Attack on St Nazaire. Diagram to show how it was intended the assault should be carried out'. No scale shown. (4) 'Übersichtsplan d. Erweiterung S t. Nazaire': plan and sections of U-boat shelters. With site plan. Scale: 1:540 (calculated); site plan 1:14,000. Compass indicator on site plan. July 1941. (5) 'S t. Nazaire. Plan of port'. Scale: 1:5,000. Title and scale in rectangle at lower left corner. Compass indicators. Prepared by the Inter-Service Topographical Department, August 1942. Annotated: 'The Grid on this plan is solely for use with I.S.T.D./C/74 and has no connection with the Metric Grid as shown on G.S.G.S Maps.' Dimensions of sheets: (1) 51.5cm x 66cm; (2) 47cm x 62cm; (3) 33 cm x 58 cm; (4) 44 cm x 83 cm; (5) 80.5 cm x 80.5 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English and German
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry (1&2)1443; (3) 1439/2; (4) 1430; (5) 1438.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3983329/
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