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 1 Collection or Record:
Abstract of log of HMS Wellesley., 1837-1838.
Item
Identifier: Dep.353/10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection includes the fair copy (not autograph) of Maitland’s ‘Narrative of the Principal Occurrences on board HMS Bellerophon’, and journals of his naval service in South America, 1819-20, the Mediterranean 1820-1, and 1828-30, and India, 1837-9. It also includes a number of printed books relating to Napoleon, particularly to the time he spent on St Helena. Some of these were written by Barry O’Meara and dedicated by him to Maitland with whom he had served as surgeon...
Dates:
1837-1838.