Ships' logs.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Daily records of the progress of a ship at sea, with notes on the weather and important incidents of the voyage.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Log-book of H.M.S. Spartan.
Item
Identifier: MS.21237
Scope and Contents
The log begins on 14 April with the voyage from Port Antonio, Jamaica, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, thence to Bermuda and on to Halifax, the Saint Lawrence River and Quebec, returning via St John's, Newfoundland, to Spithead, which was reached on 24 August. The ship was commanded by Captain the Honourable (later Admiral of the Fleet Sir) Charles Gilbert John Brydone.
A little more than half of the volume is blank.
Dates:
1845.
Log-books of the East India Company's ships ‘Charles Grant’, ‘Humayoon Shah’, and ‘Cornwall’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9660-9661
Scope and Contents
The log-books belonged to William Richardson, an officer in all three ships, and great-grandfather of the donors.
Dates:
1815-1821.
Log of the barque 'Emily', including a record of expenses, for a voyage from Leith to San Francisco and South America.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14185
Dates:
1853-1855.
Log of the ship 'Wandsworth', Captain: George Dunlop, sailing between Port Glasgow and Quebec.
Item
Identifier: MS.342
Dates:
1867-1869.
Night order book of Sir Charles Malcolm for HMS Sybille, and used later by him while commanding HM Yacht William and Mary, and HM Yacht Royal Charlotte.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14142
Dates:
1818-1827.
Three naval log books and one letter copy book for ships under the command of Vice Admiral Archibald Duff.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14510
Scope and Contents
Records the last mission of HMS Muros under the command of Captain Archibald Duff up to and including the wreck of the Muros on a reef off of Cuba.
Letter book of HMS President during its service in the War of 1812.
Dates:
1807-1814.