Building Honours Hydrographer

Rear-admiral Steve Richie, former Hydrographer to the Royal Navy and popular columnist for Hydro international, has been honoured by the UK Hydrographic Office naming a building after him. The Richie Building at Taunton, an archive repository, was opened by HRH the Duke of York, escorted by Rear-admiral Richie. The event attracted a bevy of local personalities as well as five past Hydrographers of the Navy.
The new building, which cost £3.5 million and is temperature and humidity-controlled, will house the UKHO’s 2.5 million records. Charts produced since its foundation in 1795, as well as many other charts, surveys and atlases dating back to the 16th century are now housed there as part of the Public Record held on behalf of the National Archive.