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Journal of J Ker, Surgeon in the Royal Navy.
Item
Identifier: MS.1083
Scope and Contents
The Naval log is illustrated by sketches of ships, scenery, antiquities, etc., and accompanied by several poems and a dissertation on the putrid fever of St Lucia (folio 27). The scenes and incidents described include the West Indies, 1778-1779; Denmark and Zetland, 1780; the loss of the ‘Royal George’, 1782; and the battle of Cape St Vincent.
Dates:
1778-1782.