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Logs. Records.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Records in which are entered sequential data, especially about activities or transactions that occur in a system.

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Copy by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne of the log-book of Captain John Anderson for 1640 to 1643.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.3.14
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in a Dutch printed pilot`s log-book, and the final entry and postscript are signed by Anderson (folios 79-80).In December 1640, Anderson, an experienced seaman, sailed as navigator in a Dutch ship bound from Holland to Java. From July 1641 to May 1642, he was with the Dutch fleet blockading the Portuguese off the coast of Goa, and in December 1642 he returned to Holland. His log consists chiefly of a record of distance covered, wind direction, land...
Dates: 1640-1643.

Diaries and notebooks of Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick L Maitland.

 Collection
Identifier: Dep.353
Scope and Contents 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: 1815, 1819-1820, 1828-1839.

Diaries, logs, official correspondence and other papers of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles A C Gordon, MC, RA, mostly relating to the 11th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.8969/1-78
Scope and Contents

The papers mostly concern Gordon`s command of the 11th Siege Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery and include Battery log books, copies of Battery correspondence, a history of the Battery, photograph album, training materials, notes and engagement diaries.

Dates: 1896-1977.

Four log books compiled by Wing Commander Noel J Capper, Royal Air Force.

 File
Identifier: Acc.9675
Scope and Contents

Mostly concerning flying carried out at Number 12 Elementary Flying School, Prestwick.

Dates: 1936-1941, 1947-1948.

Log-book of a motorist (apparently a resident of Killearn), recording routes, mileages, and names of passengers, with frequent social or mechanical observations, contained in a specially ruled 'Motor Journal'.

 Item
Identifier: MS.8919
Scope and Contents

The first motor car, the make of which is not recorded, covered over 15,000 miles between June 1904, and December 1906. A second vehicle, a 30/55 Daimler, was acquired in November 1907, and a 15 horse power Humber Landaulette was delivered early in 1909. At the close of the log, distances of over 11,000 miles are recorded for the Daimler, and over 3,000 miles for the Humber.

Dates: 1904-1909.

Logbook of I R Walker.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.8359
Scope and Contents

Recording a cruise on the Clyde and West coast of Scotland in the yacht "Siesta".

Dates: 1872.

Logbook of Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth, the geologist, containing accounts of two journeys made by him when he was a youth of eighteen and nineteen.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.20.5.15
Scope and Contents The first account describes `A Cruize among the Hebrides or Western Isles of Scotland. June 1836` and the second is a `Log of the Barbara of Bedford during her voyage from Bedford to York. July 1835` (folio 43).At the end of each log, there are lists of illustrations which apparently were meant to accompany the text, but the only drawings in the logbook appear in the second account. There is a map of the area between York and Bedford (folio 44) and a sketch of `A Yorkshireman`s...
Dates: 1835-1836.

Mountaineering diaries and notebooks of William Douglas Nicoll

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13874/1-5
Content Description

Four volumes recording the author's climbing activities in Scotland with an annotated copy of Munro's Tables

Dates: 1955-1991.

Offshore log and reports on chaplaincy services to the North Sea oil industry, by Andrew Wylie, minister of the Church of Scotland.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.13691
Scope and Contents Offshore log and reports, 1983-1991, on the provision of chaplaincy services to the North Sea oil industry, by Rev Andrew Wylie.By the mid-1980s there were calls to consider the feasibility of providing non-denominational chaplaincy services to the UK offshore oil and gas industry. The Norwegian offshore chaplaincy had been established the previous decade when interest had been expressed in services being held on platforms, and had proved successful. Some companies, including...
Dates: 1986-1991

Papers of Hamish M Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9925
Scope and Contents

Log books, 1951-1970, of the Braehead Mountaineering Club

notebooks, 1961-1966, of cuttings and photographs concerning Braehead School

three radio scripts, 1961-1967, of Hamish Brown and R F Mackenzie.

Dates: 1951-1970.

Papers of the Abbey School, Stirling.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.5555
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. log book, 1905-1928

2. attendance certificate book, 1911-1924

3. requisition book and account book, 1927, 1931.

Dates: 1905-1931.