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2 items (originally enclosed in despatch number 64, concerning proposed oil tanks...
Catalogue reference: MFQ 1/1149
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This record is about the 2 items (originally enclosed in despatch number 64, concerning proposed oil tanks... dating from 1891-1893 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 1/1149
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1891-1893
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Description (What the record is about)
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2 items (originally enclosed in despatch number 64, concerning proposed oil tanks in Nagasaki harbour, 7 June 1893) extracted from FO 262/681 (folios 231-232). Japan: Kyushu: Nagasaki Harbour. 2 Japanese Naval Charts: (1) number 92; (2) number 108, also showing the approach to the harbour. Reference notes to both items. Scale: (1) 1:12,078; (2) 1:24,156. Compass rose to item 1. Both surveyed by commander S Kato, IJN [Imperial Japanese Navy], and others, Hydrographic Office, Tokyo; produced under the superintendence of Captain K Kimotsuki, Imperial Japanese Naval Hydrographer; published by the Hydrographic Office, Tokyo: (1) 2 August 1892, (2) 1893. Inset to item 2: view of land heads.
MS additions, coloured, to both items, showing existing and proposed oil tanks; further additions to item 1, showing features including coal sheds, a dock, and a powder magazine.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3984170/
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