Folded plans and tender documents from the drawing office of the Manager Engineering Department Yard Machinery (MED YM) at HM Dockyard Portsmouth. The plans are for buildings, machinery, plant and equipment at Admiralty shore establishments, mainly in the Portsmouth area. Including plans of general layouts, travelling cranes, goods lifts, pulley blocks, boilers, steam heating, air compressors, ventilation and filtration plant, diesel generators, trolleys and locomotives. The collection also has official orders and memoranda for official visits and royal reviews at Portsmouth and Spithead.

Boxes 1 to 5: RN Aircraft Repair Yard, Fleetlands, Gosport, circa 1939-1950.
Boxes 6 and 7: Royal Clarence Victualling Yard and Boom Defence Depot, Gosport, circa 1930-1937.
Boxes 8 and 9: RN Armament Depot, Priddy's Hard, Portsmouth, circa 1907-1940. Including a general plan of Portsmouth including Priddy's Hard RN Ordnance Depot, Forton Royal Marine Barracks and Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, 1914.
Boxes 10 and 11: HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, circa 1922-1939.
Boxes 12 and 13: RN Armament Depot, Bedenham, circa 1927-1933.
Box 14: RN Hospital Haslar, Gosport, circa 1908-1941. Including a general plan of Portsmouth Haslar including RN Hospital, Cemetery, Gun Boat Yard and Fort Blockhouse Submarine Depot, 1910.
Box 15: Diesel Scheme for Fort Blockhouse, Gosport, circa 1921-1925.
Boxes 16 and 17: RN Submarine Depot, Fort Blockhouse and Haslar, Gosport, circa 1925-1942. HM Dockyard Portsmouth, circa 1899-1939. HMS Collingwood, Fareham, 1944. AA Building, Eastney, 1940. HMS Mercury, Leydene House, near Petersfield, 1942.
Box 18: RN Mine Depot, Frater, Gosport, circa 1920-1939. RN Warhead Stores, Elson, Gosport, 1939.
Box 19: RN Air Station Lee-on-Solent, circa 1940-1946.
Box 20: Admiralty Experiment Works, Experimental Tank, and Oil Fuel Experimental Works, Haslar, Gosport, circa 1910-1925.
Box 21: HMS Excellent, Whale Island, circa 1926-1943. Hornsea Island, 1926-1931. RN Store Depot, Woolston, Southampton. Royal Marines Barracks, Eastney, 1935-1938. Forton Training Establishment, 1924-1925.
Box 22: HM Torpedo Station, Stokes Bay, Gosport, circa 1918-1928. HMS St Vincent, Gosport, 1937-1938. Fort Southwick, Portsdown Hill, circa 1942-1944. RN Physiological Laboratory, Alverstoke, Gosport, 1943.
Box 23: RN Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, circa 1924-1940. RN Air Stations outside the Portsmouth area including Anthorn, Culham and Hinstock, circa 1944-1945.
Box 24: CMB Base, Haslar, 1924-1932. HMS Hornet MTB Base, Gosport, circa 1940-1943. South Camber, Sussex, circa 1899-1900.
Box 25: HM Gunwharf, Gosport and Portsmouth, including Mining School and Mine Store, circa 1916-1942.
Box 26: RN Torpedo Depots, Portsmouth and Weymouth, circa 1924-1932.
Box 27: Drawings of Admiralty pattern weighing scales, manufactured by W.&T. Avery, Birmingham, 1900. Also other plans not marked with details of locations.
Box 28: Programme, berthing arrangements and notice to mariners for the visit of the French Fleet and review of the Combined Fleets, August 1905. List of ships, programme and plan of landing places in Portsmouth for the Coronation Naval Review, 24 June 1911. Orders for the visit of the French President and French Squadron, June 1913. Orders and notice to mariners for the assembly of the Fleet following the Test Mobilisation, July 1914. Orders for the Silver Jubilee Review of the Fleet, 16 July 1935. Orders for the Coronation Review of the Fleet, 20 May 1937. Admiralty notices to mariners, instructions for foreign ships, and list of officers of the foreign warships at the Coronation Naval Review, 20 May 1937. Orders for the 20th Anniversary Review of NATO Navies, 16 May 1969.

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Administrative / biographical background
Robert Sutherland Horne worked as an architectural assistant in the drawing offices of the Department of the Civil Engineer-in-Chief, Navy Works Department and Ministry of Public Building and Works at HM Dockyard Portsmouth and nearby establishments, circa 1954-1971. Towards the end of his career he became Honorary Historian of Portsmouth Dockyard, conducting tours of the site and writing books on some of its oldest buildings. He was also responsible for salvaging and transferring significant historic items into public archives, including a large collection of glass plate negatives to the NMM. An obituary for Horne appears in the May 1973 issue of 'The Mariners Mirror'.