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Appendix No. 4.
FALKLAND ISLANDS.
414
DEFENCE of Stanley Harbour. Details of Estimate.
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SCHEME I.
To deny the Harbour :-
Howitzers.
6-in.
Garrisons.
Armament.
Cost.
Infantry.
Royal Artillery and
10-in. 64-prs.
40-prs.
Royal Engineers.
8-in.
43
Sea Batteries.
Ordnance Point
43,500
200
Navy Point
26,500
100
::
5
to
:
Ni
2
Land Defences.
Navy Peninsula
•
13,100
250
Engineer Ridge
13,380
200
Sapper's Hill
18,110
300
Stanley Settlement
16,980
500
~~NO
Military road and bridge
4,000
Military station and depôts
21,000
500
240 R. A. 100 R. E.
Military hospital..
3,000
:
Main magazine
7,500
Submarine defence, with establish-
17,250
30 R. E.
::::
ment
(S. M. M.)
184,320 2,050
6
7
16
2
::
2
Add, for-
SCHEME II.
Sea Batteries.
Hooker's Point
56,650
100
4
+4
Horse Point
56,250
200
:
4
022
::
Land Defences.
Blanco Hill
11,400
300
380 R. A.
White Rock Ridge
14,000
200
Carenage
10,000
200
:::
332,620
3,050
2
2
:::
14
17
22
2
2
ลง
:::
::
:::
Total cost- Works Guns
::
Total garrison—
Royal Artillery
Royal Engineers
Ditto, Submarine Miners Infantry
Total guns-
..
Heavy 10-inch R.M.L.
64-prs., R.M.L.
40-prs., R.B.L.
8-inch rifled howitzers
6-inch ditto..
::
::
No. 122.
a
Scheme I.
Scheme II.
£
184,350
£ 332,650
240
100
380 100
30
30
2,050
3,050
16
67829
14
17
22
222
(Signed)
H. CAUTLEY, Major, R.E.
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Sir,
War Office to Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad.
War Office, March 31, 1882.
I AM directed by the Secretary of State for War to transmit, for the information of the Royal Commission on the Defence of British Possessions and Commerce Abroad, the accompanying copy of a Report drawn up by Captain Loftus Jones, of Her Majesty's ship Garnet," respecting the defensive capabilities of the Falkland Islands as a coaling and refitting station for the Royal Navy and mercan- tile marine,
I am to request that this Report, when no longer required by the Commission, may be returned to this Office.
I have, &c.
(Signed)
T. L. GALLWEY, Inspector-General of Fortifications.
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