Guide to the Logbook of Robert Molineux (as filmed by the AJCP)

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M2013

National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record

Created: 2018

Collection Summary

Creator
Molineux (Molyneux), Robert
Title
Logbook of Robert Molineux (as filmed by the AJCP)
Date Range
1766 - 1768
Collection Number
M2013
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
English
Repository
Australian Joint Copying Project
Sponsor
The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.

Introduction

Scope and Contents

The log contains hourly entries giving speed, courses, winds and remarks, with daily entries for course, distance, latitude, longitude and bearings. There are charts of Port Praia Bay (St Jago), Lucipara Shoal, Banca Straits, Pulo Tato and other islands in the East Indies.

Conditions Governing Access

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use

Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the British Library. For more information visit: How I use the images I order?-The British Library [https://www.bl.uk/help/how-can-i-use-the-images-i-order].

Preferred Citation

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Archival History

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1986 (AJCP Reel: M2013). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.

Existence and Location of Originals

British Library, 96 Euston Road, London. Collection reference: Add MS 47106 (Egmont Papers, Volume CLXXXVII). For more information see: Robert Molineux at the British Library (http://hviewer.bl.uk/IamsHViewer/Default.aspx?mdark=ark:/81055/vdc_100000000141.0x00032a).

Existence and Location of Copies

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2288196] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

The journals and logs of Robert Molineux kept on H.M.S. Endeavour in 1768-1771 have been filmed by the AJCP on as part of Admiralty 51 (PRO 1562) and Admiralty 55 (PRO 1580).

Finding-aid Notes

This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.

Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.

Subjects

Banca Straits, Indonesia; Dolphin, HMS (ship); Dutch East Indies; Exploration: maritime; Lucipara Shoal, Indonesia; Maps, pland and charts: East Indies; Molineux, Robert; Port Praia Bay, Indonesia; Pulo Tato, Indonesia; Royal Navy: exploration and surveys; Royal Navy: voyages; Wallis, Samuel, Capt.

Bibliography

Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 328, p123.

Biographical / Historical

Robert Molineux (d.1771), or Molyneux, was master's mate on HMS Dolphin, under the command of Samuel Wallis, on voyage around the world 1766-68. He was the master on HMS Endeavour in 1768-1771, dying on the voyage home near the Cape of Good Hope. James Cook described him as 'a young man of good parts but had unfortunately given himself up to extravecancy and his intemperance which brought on disorders that put a pirod to his life.'

Item Descriptions

Log of H.M.S. Dolphin, 8 July 1766 - 19 May 1768 (File Add MS 47106)

The log, which usually has entries for two days per page, contains hourly entries giving speed, courses, winds, and remarks, with daily entries for course, distance, latitude, longitude, and bearings. The remarks are quite detailed for the passage through the Magellan Straits (Dec. 1766-March 1767) and the visits to Tahiti (June-July 1767), Tinian, Marianas Islands (Sept. 1767) and Batavia (Dec. 1767). There are charts of Port Praja Bay (St. Jago), Lucipara Shoal, Banca Straits, Pulo Tato and other islands in the East Indies.

(140 ff.)


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