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21 drawings of Fort Albert, Grand Falls, New Brunswick, originally received with...

Catalogue reference: MPHH 1/689/2-22

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MPHH 1/689/2-22
Date
1845
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21 drawings of Fort Albert, Grand Falls, New Brunswick, originally received with the Commanding Royal Engineer's letter no 296 of 20 March 1845 and signed by Colonel W Holloway, Commanding Royal Engineer, 27 March 1845. (2) No 18: 'Fort Albert, New Brunswick. Plan of Place d'armes'. Annotated: '(For Sections see Plan N o 15)'. (3) No 20: sections through the curtain. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240]. (4) No 6: 'Section of North and South Towers'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (5) No 19: sections showing the relative heights of the towers and bastions and the slope of the glacis. Scale: 1 inch to 20 feet. (6) No 22: sections through proposed glacis. Scale: 1 inch to 75 feet [1:900]. (7) No 7: plans and sections of bastions and the tanks proposed for the bastions. Inset: elevation of a window and door of the bastion. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (8) No 8: 'Plan of Platform of Bastion'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (9) No 9: 'Plan and Section of Front Curtain'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (10) No 10: plans of ground floor, basement and platform of the caponiere, redoubt and ravelin. Overlays show amendments to the basement and ground floor plans. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (11) No 11: sections through redoubt and end elevation of caponiere. Overlay: amended end elevation of caponiere. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (12) No 12: plan, section and elevation of the north-east and south-east curtains. Revised plan and amendments on overlay. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (13) No 13: plans of the north-west and south-west curtains. Revised plan and amendments on overlay. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (14) No 14: 'Plan Section and Elevation of Drawbridge at Entrance to Redoubt'. Scale: 1 inch to 4 feet [1:48]. (15) No 15: sections through the Place d'armes, showing the arches and counterforts. Scales: 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120]. (16) No 16: 'Plan Section and Elevation of proposed Counterscarp ...'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (17) No 17: 'Plan of glacis'. Scale: 1 inch to 60 feet [1:720]. (18) No 23: 'Surface Plan of the Work of Defence proposed at the Grand Falls New Brunswick ...'. Scale: 1 inch to 50 feet [1:600]. Compass indicator. (19) No 5: 'Detailed Plan of North and South Tower': ground floor plan and terreplein. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (20) No 4: 'Detailed Plan of North and South Towers': first floor and basement plans. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (21) No 3: sections of the western tower. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. (22) No 2: 'Detailed Plan of the West Tower shewing its Casemates and Terreplein'. Scale: 1 inch to 10 feet. All sheets bear later MS additions in ink and/or pencil. Dimensions of sheets: (2, 4, 9, 16) 27 cm x 43 cm; (3) 27 cm x 53 cm; (5) 28 cm x 121 cm; (6) 65 cm x 56 cm; (7) 54 cm x 71 cm; (8) 42 cm x 54 cm; (10) 43 cm x 55 cm; (11) 30 cm x 56 cm; 12) 45 cm x 42 cm; (13) 42 cm x 43 cm; (14) 55 cm x 43 cm; (15) 43 cm x 26 cm; (17) 44 cm x 55 cm; (18) 39 cm x 45 cm; (19-20) 42 cm x 53 cm; (21) 41 cm x 27 cm; (22) 43 cm x 55 cm.

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The National Archives, Kew
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Language
English
Map scale
1:120
Physical condition
MS, coloured
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9415786/

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