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Jamaica. Plans of the fixed beam and search lights, Port Royal and Victoria Battery....
Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/169
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This record is about the Jamaica. Plans of the fixed beam and search lights, Port Royal and Victoria Battery.... dating from 1897-1902 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to extra large flat storage from various.... 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)
- MPHH 1/169
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1897-1902
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Description (What the record is about)
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Jamaica. Plans of the fixed beam and search lights, Port Royal and Victoria Battery. (1) Site plan of the electric light engine room. Reference table of accommodation. Scale: 1 inch to 100 feet. Compass indicator. Chain survey prepared by Lieutenant Colonel A R F Dorward, Commanding RE, 2 February 1897; corrected to August 1897. Annotated: 'Port Royal no 71...No 1 of 2'; zincographed at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham. With coloured MS additions. (2) Plan and section of the electric light engine rooms. Scale: 1 inch to 8 feet. By K Da Costa, 3 December 1901. Annotated 'No 2 of 2'. (3) Site plans, plans and sections of electric light emplacements. Scales: Site plans: 1 inch to 100 feet [1:1200]; Plans: 1 inch to 4 feet and 1 inch to 30 feet; Sections: 1 inch to 8 feet and 1 inch to 15 feet. Drawn and copied by Sapper H Ranshall Rowe, RE, 21 May 1902. Compass indicators. (1) and (2) Signed by Major A D Meeres, RE for Lieutenant Colonel Commanding RE Jamaica, 3 December 1901; (3) signed by Captain W Caulfield, RE, 21 May 1902, and Lieutenant Colonel A C MacDonnell, Commanding RE Jamaica.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- 260
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- WO 78/4904
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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)
- 66 cm x 99.1 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 3583
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4561273/
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