Memorandum of the need of improving Caton Harbour and protection of floods in the west river.

Copies of memorandum of the need and possibilities of improvement of the approaches to Canton Harbour dated February 1915 and Memorandum on the question of Protection against floods in the West river both are signed Hugo Von Heidenstam, Royal Swedish Corps of Engineers.
Formerly MAZ/68

Administrative / biographical background
Hugo von Heidenstam was a Swedish diplomat and engineer. In 1910 he was appointed chief engineer of the Shanghai Commission for Port and River and was a member of several Chinese flood control commissions.

Record Details

Item reference: MAZ/1/1; MAZ/68
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Extent: folder
Date made: 1915-02 - 1915-02; 1915-02-01
Creator: Maze, Frederick William
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London