Enclosure book for Minute book number 33 [Ref no: MB 33]

Enclosure book for Minute book number 33 (a): Attached envelope, 'Chatham, Place of deposit for dredged material at the Nore', containing a letter from J [John] Palmer, Hale Dockyard, Chatham, dated the 15th October 1888, addressed to Captain [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer, Admiralty, discussing ways to deposit dredging spoil from Gillingham, attached to folded cutting of 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 [George Hastings] Inskip, Master, Royal Navy, 1862 - 3, page 30. Attached envelope, 'Letter to Admiral Fairfax (with Chart) (Commander in Chief Australia) with reference to work of Paluma and Dart', containing folded cutting of chart number 2351, Australia, East Coast, Cape Tribulation to Cape Flattery and the Barrier Reefs, by Captain O [Owen] Stanley, Lieutenants C B [Charles Bampfield] Yule, J [Joseph] Dayman, H G [Henry George] Simpson, & Mr Obree, Master Assistant, HMS Rattlesnake, 1843 - 8, along with letter from W J L [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer, addressed to Real Admiral H Fairfax, CB, Commander in Chief, H M Ships, Australian Station, dated 19th October 1888, requesting that 'Dart' be sent to survey the Australian Coast with 'Paluma' in her upcoming commission, page 39. Attached envelope, 'Sheerness, Erection of Post', containing cutting of chart 1185, River Thames, Sea Reach, surveyed by Staff Commander Tizard, Royal Navy, Assisted by Navigating Lieutenants [Philip David] Ouless, Hammond and Wright, Royal Navy, 1883, annotated with 'Proposed position of Range Post', page 75. Attached envelope, 'Plymouth', containing the following documents: firstly, large document, 'First Schedule, Regulations for Anchoring, Berthing, Mooring and Breaming Ships in the Dockyard Port of Plymouth, and for the prevention of injury to the Port, or to Her Majesty's property therein' ; secondly, letter from A De G [Adolphus De Grouchy] Sutton, Staff Captain and Queen's Harbour Master, dated November 27th 1888, addressed to Captain [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer, saying he is of opinion that the Cattewater Regulations should be retained in New Order in Council under the Docks and Ports Act; thirdly, folded chart, 'Plan of Cattewater & Sutton Harbours, showing the Railway Connections with the Great Western & South Western Systems', page 106. Attached envelope, 'Breakwater at Simons Bay', containing folded cutting of chart 1849, Africa, South Coast, Simons Bay, Surveyed by Sir Edward Belcher, CB, 1846, with Additions by Captain O [Owen] Stanley, 1847, annotated with 'Breakwater proposed by Staff Commander Covey', page 141. Attached envelope, 'Affairs in Pacific, Landing of Telegraph Cables in Samoan and Hawaiian Arches', containing A4 booklet, '1889, Federal Council of Australasia, Affairs in the Pacific: Address to the Queen, and other papers, Ordered by the Council to be printed, February 1st, 1889', page 188.Attached envelope, 'South Eastern Railway Bill 1889', containing the following documents: large A4 booklet, '52 & 53 Victoria - Session 1889, South Eastern Railway, Arrangement of Sections' ; A4 notes, 'SE Railway Act 1889 (Bill); note from Mr Wyatt from Wyatt, Hoskins, Hooker & Williams, 28 Parliament Street, Westminster, dated 12th August 1889, addressed to Captain [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer, Admiralty, informing him that the South Western Railway Bill received Royal Assent, and returning the official papers he had borrowed; notes by the Hydrographer W J L [William James Lloyd] Wharton, on the Medway Conservancy Act 1881; and finally, fold-out chart, depicting Sheerness Harbour, Sheerness, Deadman Island and the River Medway, annotated with 'Land Proposed to be Acquired by the South Eastern Railway Company and Proposed Works Thereon', all tied together with a pink ribbon, page 194. Attached envelope, 'Portland Coal Hulks', containing fold-out chart cutting, depicting part of the Portland Coast, the Outer Breakwater and the Man of War and Merchant Ships Anchorages, page 197. Attached envelope, 'Portland, Proposed Coaling Jetty', containing fold-out cutting of chart number 2268, showing the North East coast of Portland, the Inner Breakwater and the Narrow Ship Channel, annotated with 'Proposed Coaling Camber and Jetty with sheds to store 5000 Tons of Coal', page 198. Attached envelope, 'Cook Group', containing fold-out chart cutting, depicting the Cook Islands, Pacific Ocean, including Society Islands, showing dates in 1888 when the British flag was hoisted on each of the Cook Islands. page 201. Attached envelope, 'Gibraltar Docks', containing fold-out chart cutting, Gibraltar, Surveyed by Captain P [Pelham] Aldrich, Assisted by Lieutenants A [Arthur] Havergal, C J [Casper Joseph] Baker, H B [Henry Brooke] Anson & W [Wyndham] Richardson, HMS Sylvia, 1885, the coastline and topography are taken from the Ordnance Survey Maps, 1869, page 202. Attached envelope, 'Cork Harbour, Submarine Mining Practice Ground', containing folded chart depicting Cork Harbour, Ireland, The Sound and Harbour Rock, annotated with 'Tracing showing proposed ground for submarine mining practice, Cork Harbour, also showing positions of cables, Note, Red Lines show proposed positions of cables for mine defences', page 215. Attached envelope, 'Perekop Canal', containing folded chart cutting, depicting the Isthmus of Perekop, the border between the Crimean Republic and the Kherson Oblast, annotated with 'Approximate track of Projected Canal, Width 65 feet, depth 12 feet', page 219. Attached envelope, 'Plymouth, Position finding at, Proposed and existing cables', containing fold-out chart cutting, depicting Plymouth, including Jennycliff Bay, Bovisand Bay and St Nicholas or Drakes Island, including Merchant Vessels Anchorage, showing the Proposed and Existing Cables, page 221.Attached envelope, 'Bermuda, St Georges Harbour and Channel', containing cutting of chart number 360, North Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda Islands, compiled from the most recent Admiralty Surveys, 1876, including The Narrows or Ship Channel and St George Harbour, annotated with 'Proposed 24 feet Channel', page 225. Attached fold-out survey, Map of The Niger Delta, by H H Johnston, FRGS & HM Vice Consul for the Oil Rivers, & H Sharbau, Cartographer, Royal Geographical Society, showing the British Protectorate, included in the pages of attached A4 booklet, 'Report on the Niger Delta by Vice-Consul Johnston', page 228.Loose sheet, 'Eastern Telegraph Company, Limited, 11, Old Broad Street, EC, page 243. Attached envelope, 'Plymouth Sound Minefields', containing folded chart cutting, Plymouth Sound & Hamoaze, Surveyed by Commander H L [Henry Laird] Cox, A B [Alexander Burns] Usborne & J E [John E] Davis, Masters, Royal Navy, 1856 - 60, page 264. Attached envelope, 'Turnchapel, Proposed Pier or Jetty at', containing folded chart cutting, depicting Jennycliff Bay, Mount Batten, Batten Bay, Clovelly Bay, Turnchapel, Oreston, Hooe Lake and Plymouth, page 287. Attached envelope, 'WC Africa', containing the following documents: firstly, notes from the Foreign Office dated the 5th April 1889 regarding the Survey of the River System South of the Old Calabar; and secondly, folded chart cutting, West Coast of Africa, Cape Formoso to Fernando Po, Surveyed by Captain W F [William Fitzwilliam] Owen, Royal Navy, 1826 and Captain A T E [Alexander Thomas Emeric] Vidal & Lieutenant Bedford, 1836 - 8, River Cameroon by Captain W Allen, Royal Navy, 1833 - 42, River Niger by Lieutenant J H [John Hawley] Glover, Royal Navy, 1857 - 59, Corrections and additions by Navigating Lieutenant C H C [Charles H C] Langdon, Royal Navy, 1869 - 70 and Lieutenant A [Arthur] Mostyn Field, Royal Navy, 1881, page 301. Attached envelope, 'Zambesi', containing folded cutting of chart number 1810, Africa, East Coast, River Zambesi to Mozambique Harbour, chiefly from Surveys by Captain W F W [William Fitzwilliam] Owen and the Officers of HMS Leven and Barracouta, 1824, with Additions and Corrections to 1883, page 332. 2 attached fold-out plans; firstly, 'Rough plan of Apia Harbour, showing approximately (in Black) the positions of the Ships at 9am on the 16th March, and (in Red) the positions in which the 'Olga', 'Vandalia', and 'Trenton' took the ground on the afternoon of that day', signed by Captain H C [Henry Coey] Kane; secondly, 'Rough plan of Apia Harbour, showing approximately the positions of the Men-of-War before the Hurricane', signed by Captain H C [Henry Coey] Kane, both plans included in the back of A4 booklet, 'Navy, HMS Calliope, Report of the Hurricane at Samoa on the 16th March 1889, in continuation of Parliamentary Paper number 5732 of 1889', page 373Enclosure book for Minute book number 33 (b):Attached envelope, 'Research Rooms in Portsmouth Yard', containing folded plan, 'HM Dockyard, Portsmouth, part plan of ground floor of Officers' Offices', 'Rooms proposed to be appropriated by the Hydrographer tinted Red', page 435. Attached envelope, 'Devonport Time Signal Apparatus', containing slip of paper annotated with 'Tracing lent to Mr Kulberg with letter 30/01/05', page 437. Loose sheets; firstly, a letter from Frederick Pearcey, 65 Wellington Street, Alexandra Park, Moss Side, Manchester, dated 8th October 1889, addressed to Dr John Murray, Challenger Office, Edinburgh, underlining his wishes to return to the Navy; secondly, a letter from John Murray, Challenger Expedition Office, 32 Queen Street, Edinburgh, dated 15th October 1889, addressed to [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer, informing that he has enclosed the letter from Frederick Pearcey, page 532.Attached envelope, 'Southampton Water, Dredgings at Calshot Castle', containing cutting of chart number 2040, The Solent, Hurst Point to Cowes and Southampton Water, The Solent surveyed by Captain J [John] Parsons, Assisted by Staff Commander T [Thomas] Tizard, J E [James Edward] Coghlan, and W [William] Pearce, HMS Porcupine, 1879, Southampton Water by Staff Commander D [Daniel] Hall, 1875, page 554. Attached envelope, 'Paper used in Chart Manufacture', containing correspondence between T C Mendenhall, US Coast and Geodetic Survey Office, Washington, dated August 26th 1889, addressed to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, London, England, requesting the history of certain chart material and where they can find it, including samples of different chart paper, and a price and supplier list, page 567