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National Maritime Museum

Atlases, Maps and Plans


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 HSR/X

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Atlases, Maps and Plans

Date(s): [1770-1820]

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: HSR/X: 46 items

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Atlases, maps and plans - documents.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Documents: This group contains single maps, plans and track charts. Examples include a map showing stands of timber in the Penobscot area of New England, c 1770; plans of the battle of Trafalgar, 1805; of Portsmouth harbour, 1807; a group of plans relating to Sir John Rennie (1761-1821) concerning the proposed Northfleet dockyard, 1806, the West India docks and the Isle of Dogs, 1802 to 1820; a plan and estimate of 1815 of a proposed breakwater to be built at Deal by Graeme Spence (fl 1758-1815); a plan of Lowestoft harbour, 1830; and of Sunderland and the river Wear, 1867. Plans of dockyards are included in the description of Public Records (Section Two, above), while the main collection of charts in the Museum is held by the Department of Navigation.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Architectural drawings | Drawings | Visual materials
Battle of Trafalgar (1805) | Napoleonic Wars (1800-1815) | Wars (events)
Dockyards | Shipbuilding industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry
Maps | Visual materials
Illustrations

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Deal | Kent | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Lowestoft | Suffolk | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Poplar | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Portsmouth | Hampshire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Sunderland | County Durham | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Tower Hamlets