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3 items extracted from WO 192/4 (Fort Record Book for Skanse Fort). Faroe Islands:...
Catalogue reference: MPH 1/878
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This record is about the 3 items extracted from WO 192/4 (Fort Record Book for Skanse Fort). Faroe Islands:... dating from 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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- MPH 1/878
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942
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3 items extracted from WO 192/4 (Fort Record Book for Skanse Fort). Faroe Islands: Torshavn. (1) 'Routes of underground cable at Skanse': plan showing alarms, telephones, loudspeakers and signal light indicators. Reference table. Compass indicator. (2) 'Skanse battery alarm circuits': technical diagram dated 25 May 1942. Signed by P Williamson. (3) 'Area of water for which fort is responsible, including arcs of fire of guns and arcs of searchlights': outline map of Nolsoy and south-east Streymoy. Scale: 1:50,000. Compass indicator; magnetic variation 1943. Dimensions of sheets: (1) 49 cm x 81 cm; (2) 34 cm x 43 cm; (3) 46 cm x 38 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 926.
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