The Thames, the Solent and the South Coast.- [McCLean (William Newsam, Captain, Royal Engineers, hydrologist and engineer, son of the engineer and astronomer, Frank McClean, and brother of the aviator, Francis Kennedy McClean, 1874-1968)] Cheripika [Notebook of the launch Cheripika on the Thames, the Solent and the South Coast], autograph manuscript, 87pp. excluding notes on Picquet Games and blanks, most entries in ink, a few in pencil, slightly browned, original limp moroccom, gilt, corners and edges rubbed, lacks spine, 8vo, Thursday, 23rd April 1908 - July 1909. ⁂ "May 23rd T.Y.L.C. opening run & dinner. Launch arrived about 2pm at Thames Ditton. I was met by the Commodore of the 'Allan'. Vice Commodore Coney of the Club provided and led the Motor run. There were about 10 or 11 Launches. We went down to 6 km of Trowbeck Island. Back about 6 p.m. at 'La Boheme'. Dinner at marquee at 7pm." An account of trips along the Thames with Pearse an engineer, noting length of journeys, speeds, high water etc. McCLean keeps the Cheripika moored at Cadogan Pier, Chelsea, and most of the journeys are along the Thames, along by the Tate Gallery, Albert Bridge, Richmond, Thames Ditton, Marlow, Cookham, Windsor, Staines Bridge etc. Other journeys include to Greenwich, Gravesend, the Solent, Teignmouth etc. Captain William Newsam McClean, freelance hydrologist. In 1908 he became Director and Chairman of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company and also in charge of subsidiary railway and electric companies as well as privately providing an engineering consultancy. During the First World War he served with the Royal Engineers, the Australian Corps and the 9th Corps, retiring with the rank of Captain. He returned to the Cannock Chase Colliery Company as Chairman and Managing Director; and from 1919 as a director of the River Flow Records organisation. McClean was interested in the theoretical and practical aspects of hydrology and in 1912 became one of the first people in Britain to measure river flow using a current-meter instrument, and in 1913 initiated the first systematic approach to river gauging on the River Garry at Invergarry. In 1929 he began to measure river flow on the River Dee, installing a gauge at Cairnton, and later installed gauges on the River Spey.
The Thames, the Solent and the South Coast.- [McCLean (William Newsam, Captain, Royal Engineers, hydrologist and engineer, son of the engineer and astronomer, Frank McClean, and brother of the aviator, Francis Kennedy McClean, 1874-1968)] Cheripika [Notebook of the launch Cheripika on the Thames, the Solent and the South Coast], autograph manuscript, 87pp. excluding notes on Picquet Games and blanks, most entries in ink, a few in pencil, slightly browned, original limp moroccom, gilt, corners and edges rubbed, lacks spine, 8vo, Thursday, 23rd April 1908 - July 1909. ⁂ "May 23rd T.Y.L.C. opening run & dinner. Launch arrived about 2pm at Thames Ditton. I was met by the Commodore of the 'Allan'. Vice Commodore Coney of the Club provided and led the Motor run. There were about 10 or 11 Launches. We went down to 6 km of Trowbeck Island. Back about 6 p.m. at 'La Boheme'. Dinner at marquee at 7pm." An account of trips along the Thames with Pearse an engineer, noting length of journeys, speeds, high water etc. McCLean keeps the Cheripika moored at Cadogan Pier, Chelsea, and most of the journeys are along the Thames, along by the Tate Gallery, Albert Bridge, Richmond, Thames Ditton, Marlow, Cookham, Windsor, Staines Bridge etc. Other journeys include to Greenwich, Gravesend, the Solent, Teignmouth etc. Captain William Newsam McClean, freelance hydrologist. In 1908 he became Director and Chairman of the Cannock Chase Colliery Company and also in charge of subsidiary railway and electric companies as well as privately providing an engineering consultancy. During the First World War he served with the Royal Engineers, the Australian Corps and the 9th Corps, retiring with the rank of Captain. He returned to the Cannock Chase Colliery Company as Chairman and Managing Director; and from 1919 as a director of the River Flow Records organisation. McClean was interested in the theoretical and practical aspects of hydrology and in 1912 became one of the first people in Britain to measure river flow using a current-meter instrument, and in 1913 initiated the first systematic approach to river gauging on the River Garry at Invergarry. In 1929 he began to measure river flow on the River Dee, installing a gauge at Cairnton, and later installed gauges on the River Spey.
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