Plans for Patea Harbour and Breakwater

Production date
1878
1881
1882
Description
Eight plans showing proposed work to Patea Harbour and Breakwater as planned by John Thomson, engineer for the Patea Harbour Board, John Carruthers, Engineer-in-Chief, and Sir John Coode, the eminent British engineer best known as the Resident Engineer and Engineer-in-Chief at the National Harbour Works at Portland (Dorset), 1878; 1881; 1882

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1878
1881
1882
Item list

  Part 1

Plan 7: Copy of MD 586 Patea Harbour showing about 5,000 cubic yards of bank washed away by the sea into the river (and a proposed extension of the wall and proposed construction by John Thomson)

34 x 46 cm

Linen on cartridge

1 Dec, 1881

(Also identified as A15 and B3)

Backed on same paper as plans 8, 9, and 10 (71 x 109cm)

  Part 2

Plan 8: Copy of MD586 Patea Harbour showing about 5,000 cubic yards of bank washed away by the sea into the river (and propsed extension of work by John Thomson)

34.5 x 52.5cm

Linen on cartridge

1 Dec, 1881

(Also identified as A15 and B2)

Backed on same paper as plans 7, 9, and 10 (71 x 109cm)

  Part 3

Plan 9: No 2 Plan of Patea Harbour to accompany Sir John Coode's Memorandum of May 1878

Signed by Sir John Coode, shows line of East Breakwater

32.5 x 56cm

Linen on cartridge

May 1878

(Also identified as A15 and B5)

Backed on same paper as plan 7, 8, and 10

  Part 4

Plan 10: Patea Harbour

Signed by John Carruthers, Engineer-in-Chief

32.5 x 42.5cm (1878)

Linen on cartirdge

(1878)

(Also identified as A15 and B4)

Backed on same paper as plans 7, 8, and 9

  Part

Plan 11: Patea Breakwater. General plan showing work on line C-D as proposed by Sir John Coode M.I.C.E

54 x 77cm on 70.5 x 83.5cm

Linen on cartridge

17 June 1878

(Also identified as A14 and B7)

  Part 6

Plan 12: Copy of MD 413 Patea Harbour portion of works recommended by Sir John Coode

Signed by John Thomson, Engineer to the Board

48 x 74.5cm on 71 x 82cm

Linen on cartridge

5 Oct, 1880

(Also identified A13 and B6)

  Part 7

Plan 13: Patea Harbour Plan showing original design in burnt sienna. Length AB is original contract to which assent is given

Wish to construct line CD signed John Thomson

63 x 74cm on 71 x 86cm

Linen on cartridge

June 1878

(Also identified as A12 and B1)

  Part 8

Plan 14: Plan showing principle to be kept in view for future improvements of Patea River

Signed and dated by John Thomson

59.5 x 107.5cm on 71 x 111cm

Linen on cartridge

June 1879

(Also identified as A11 and 4)

Accession number
ARC2009-250
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