Sketch of the River Clyde shewing the proposed situation for a battery of nine 26 prs. for the defence of the harbour and anchorage at Greenock : plan of White Farline [i.e. Whiteforeland] Point with the proposed battery of nine 26 prs. having a magazine, store house & guard house in the rear, the whole establishment enclosed by a wall nine feet high; plans, sections & elevations of the store house, guard house & magazine /
Smyth, Major,active 1813.
cartographic

1813.
This sheet is divided into three sections. The upper panel contains the sections and elevations of the storehouse, guard house and magazine. The lower part of the sheet is subdivided into two further sections, of which the left hand one contains a map of the Firth of Clyde at Greenock and Gourock, and the right hand side one contains a map of the area around White Farline Point (now Whiteforeland Point), and a plan of the battery.
In top right hand corner of sheet: library shelfmark written in ink.
In upper panel: written in ink, scale statement "Scale 10 feet to an Inch", with 152.4 mm. scale bar graded 10-5-0-10-50 Feet.
In lower left hand panel: written in ink title of panel, "Royal Engineers Office Edinburgh 10th: Septr: 1813", and in a different hand "Drawn to accompany Major Smyth's report to Lt. General Mann dated 11th September 1813", and scale statement "Scale of English Miles", with scale bar graded 0-1-7 Miles.
In lower right hand panel: written in ink, title of panel and scale statement "Scale of feet, or 1 Scotch chain to an Inch", with scale bar graded 100-50-0-100-300 ft.
In middle of lower panels: "B.O" with upwards arrow, stamped in red.
Has watermarks.
Shows Fort Matilda, Whiteforeland Point, Greenock, Scotland.
Board of Ordnance Plans,
Maps, Military