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Proposed scheme for Obebiucting, Kellets Bank with Tunks in the event of trar, to be put in forces if the Local Naval and Military
Authorities at the time consider it desirable
./.
Each junk to be laden with 120 tons of rubble stone
. 2. The junks so laden to be
sunk m
average
a
groups of tew at an
of
200 yards
interval
. 3. The groups to be sunk in line extending from Green
Island to a
point about 1000 yds from Stonecutters Island.
4. To avoid probably vastly increased cost of collecting the stone on the outbreak of war and the extra time which the work, owing to dearth
to dearth of labor, would probably then take, it is suggested that the required stone should be
at once
collected and stacked in
readiness on Stonecutters Island.
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