Catalogue description Russian Empire: Finland: Åland Islands (Ahvenanmaa). Six sheets of drawings of...

Russian Empire: Finland: Åland Islands (Ahvenanmaa). Six sheets of drawings of fortifications. (32) '... Sketch of ground shewing the position of Fort Bomarsund and the adjacent Towers, together with the Casemated Buildings in course of Erection. This Sketch also shows the Encampment of the Allied Troops as well as the site of the French and English Batteries and the Track of the English Heavy Guns': site map. (33) Plan and sections of Fort Bomarsund prior to its destruction by British and French troops. (34) Two floor plans, exterior elevation and section of Fort Nottick prior to its destruction by British troops. (35) Plans of a casemated [i.e. fortified] tower and another building. (36) Plans of casemated foundations. (37) Plan, elevation and sections of part of Fort Nottick. Reference table to item (32). Scale: (32) 1 inch to 200 yards [1:7,200]; (33) 1 inch to 40 feet [1:480] (plan); 1 inch to 20 feet [1:240] (sections); (34-35) 1 inch to 20 feet; (36) 1 inch to 40 feet; (37) 1 inch to 10 feet [1:120] and 1 inch to 4 feet [1:48]. Compass indicator to item (32). Drawn by: (32) Lieutenant C H Nugent, Royal Engineers, 4 November 1854; (33) Sergeant J Jones Royal Sappers and Miners, 7 November 1854; (34) Lieutenant Nugent, 9 November 1854; (35) Lieutenant J C Cowell, Royal Engineers, 7 November 1854; (36) Lieutenant Nugent, 6 November 1854; (37) Lieutenant Cowell, 10 November 1854. Dimensions of sheets: (32) 56 cm x 72 cm; (33) 63 cm x 96 cm; (34) 53.5 cm x 73.5 cm; (35) 54 cm x 75 cm; (36) 54 cm x 75 cm; (37) 56 cm x 84 cm. Originally accompanying a letter from Brigadier General Harry D Jones to the Minister of War, 13 November 1854; this letter is not filed with these drawings.

Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 948