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Enclosure book for Minute book number 37 [Ref no: MB 37]

Catalogue reference: MBE 12

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Reference
MBE 12
Title
Enclosure book for Minute book number 37 [Ref no: MB 37]
Date
1893 - 1894
Description

Attached chart cutting, depicting Plymouth, Devonport, Plymouth Sound, St Johns Lake, Hamoaze, Devon, England, page 26.
Loose A4 booklet, dated November 2nd 1893, 'Pacific Islands, Confidential, 392, No. 1, Foreign Office to Colonial Office, Section 1, signed by P Currie, Henry Howard, Martin Gosselin and Fred H T Streatfield, page 29.
Attached chart cutting, depicting Hampshire and Sussex, Southern England, including Portsmouth, Portsea Island, Chichester, Hayling and Thorney Islands, page 59.
Attached fold-out cutting of chart number 1267, England, South Coast, Approaches to Plymouth, from the various Admiralty Surveys by Captains G [George] Williams and J L [John Lort] Stokes, Commander H L [Henry Laird] Cox, and J S [James Stephen] Wells, J E [John E] Davis and A B [Alexander Burns] Usborne, Masters, Royal Navy, 1855 to 1864, Topography chiefly from the Ordnance Survey, annotated with 'Area convenient for depositing', and 'Limit of Fishery Area', page 78.
Attached folded mini chart cutting, depicting the East part of Sussex and Kent, Southern England, annotated with 'Beacon A', 'Beacon B' and the 'Prohibited Area' in between, page 84.
Attached tracing of the prohibited area on the previous chart, Southern Kent, also page 84.
Attached envelope, 'Portland Coal Hulks', containing a document entitled 'Mercantile Coal Hulks, Portland', signed by H C B [Henry Charles Bertram] Hulbert, Commander, Queen's Harbour Master, dated 31st December 1893; also containing folded cutting of chart number 2268 - England, South Coast, Portland Harbour, Surveyed by Staff Commander D [Daniel] Hall, Royal Navy, Assisted by Navigating Lieutenant F J [Frederick John] Ray, Royal Navy, 1872, showing the positions of Government Moorings and Coal Hulks, page 108.
Attached cutting of chart number 240, England, South Coast, Plymouth, Hamoaze, Surveyed by Commander H L [Henry Laird] Cox, Royal Navy, assisted by Messrs A B [Alexander Burns] Usborne and J E [John E] Davis, Masters, Royal Navy, 1857, showing the area 'Cremill Shoal' that needs dredging, annotated with 'Necessary position for Lighters shown in Red, Within the Red dotted line proposed by Staff Captain Osborn to be dredged to 32 feet', and 'Blue line shows the limit of 30 feet after dredging is complete', page 110.
Attached fold-out chart, depicting Hampshire, including Portsea Island, Langston Harbour, Hayling Island and Langston Bar, annotated with 'Proposed Deposition Ground', page 119.
Attached fold-out chart, depicting the North East side of the Isle of Wight, including Brading Haven and Nettlestone Point, annotated with 'Proposed Area for depositing', St Helen's Road, Bembridge Fort and Bembridge Hotel is also labelled, also page 119.
Loose sheets, beginning with 'Submitted to inform the Commander-in-Chief as follows', instructing dredging and depositing in the Harbour Channel south of the Horse Fort, between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, signed by the Hydrographer, dated 23rd February 1894, also page 119.
Loose sheet, from the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, London, SW, informing that if they supply and place buoy for the Local Sanitary Authorities, they merely need to paint it red, however they will still need to ascertain the position of the buoy, in order to put it on the chart, and they need this information from the Queen's Harbour Master or Frank Haslewood, dated 18th September 1894, page 155.
Attached folded chart cutting, depicting St Nicholas or Drakes Island and Jennycliff Bay, Plymouth, Devon, annotated with a line crossing from St Nicholas or Drakes Island, across Asia and Smeaton Passes, and finishing at Mount Batten, annotated with 'War Office Cable Proposed', page 197.
Attached small chart cutting, depicting Stangate Creek, Saltpan Reach and Greenborough Marshes, Kent, annotated with a small picture of a vessel and the words 'Scottish Admiral (Wreck)', also page 197.
Attached chart cutting, depicting the Coral Sea, off the North East coast of Australia, annotated with red lines and dots and the words 'Red lines, possible routes of Telegraph Cable, Red dot, desirable position for Sounding', page 213.
Attached cutting of chart number 1833, England, East Coast, River Medway, Sheerness Bar to Bishops Ness, Surveyed by Staff Commander J W [John Whitly] Dixon, Royal Navy, 1886 - 7, the Soundings East of Grain Spit by Staff Commander Tizard, Royal Navy, 1888, the Topography is taken from the Ordnance Survey, page 219.
Attached chart cutting, depicting Sheerness, mouth of the River Medway, annotated with 'Area tinted to be sounded', also 'Depositing Area', page 221.
Attached chart cutting, chart number 1607, River Thames, North Foreland to the Nore, Surveyed by Staff Commander E K [Edward Killwick] Calver, Royal Navy, assisted by E C [Edwin Charles] Davison, Paymaster & G H [George Hastings] Inskip, Master, Royal Navy, 1862 - 3, page 229.
Attached chart cutting, chart number 2450, England, South Coast, Portland to Owers, from the various Admiralty Surveys by Captain [William Louis] Sheringham, 1848, and Staff Captain J [John] Parsons and the Officers of HMS Porcupine, 1878, Topography chiefly from the Ordnance Survey, showing parts of Hampshire and Sussex, annotated with 'Southern Fishery', 'Sussex Fishery', and 'Proposed area for depositing', page 238.
Attached chart cutting, depicting Dartmouth Harbour, including the River Dart, a part of which to be dredged to 26 feet, also showing the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway and Kingswear, page 257

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United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) Archive
Former department reference
HH 76
Record URL
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Enclosure book for Minute book number 37 [Ref no: MB 37]