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1 item (originally enclosed in Mr Flower's despatch number 30, 1866) extracted from...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1019
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This record is about the 1 item (originally enclosed in Mr Flower's despatch number 30, 1866) extracted from... dating from 1866 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 1/1019
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1866
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Description (What the record is about)
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1 item (originally enclosed in Mr Flower's despatch number 30, 1866) extracted from FO 262/114 (folio 71). Japan. 2 maps: (a) a watercolour sketch and (b) a brush sketch, joined to form a single sheet, each showing Hikoshima island and the adjacent areas of southern Honshu and northern Kyushu; both indicating the position of HMS Kestrel at the time she was fired upon; map (a) also showing mountains rivers and a boundary. Reference table to map (a). Cardinal points. Pencilled additions note that while map (b), copied from an Admiralty Chart, is accurate, map (a) is inaccurate. Map (a) was enclosure number 4 and map (b) enclosure number 3 to Flower's despatch; the despatch also contained a copy of the log from HMS Kestrel's voyage between Yokohama and Nagasaki, 14 September 1886.
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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
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 25 cm x 56 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3984040/
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MFQ 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from records of various departments held...
6,070 records
Within the series: MFQ 1
Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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