Guide to the Papers of Basil Lubbock (as filmed by the AJCP)
M3055 - M3058
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Online Items
Series 1/2. Donald Munro Log of the Ship Superb, Melbourne to London, 14 September 1882 - 27 December 1882
Diary kept by passenger; details of leaving Sandridge; weather; sails set; entertainment on board; course and daily run; catching birds; gales and heavy seas; crossing date line; learning Latin and algebra from fellow passenger; playing quoits and cricket; sighting islands of Diego Ramirez: rounding the Horn; storm 'snows and hail fell heavily for a long time and we had a snowballing match'; sighting whales; birds; sighting other ships; transit of Venus; passing Lizard lighthouse...
Series 1/3. Captain's Abstract Logbook, 1872 - 1876
Includes Abstract logs of voyages made by Halloween Captain James Watt, London to Sydney, 1872-1876 and The Tweed, Captain W.Stuart, London to Melbourne, 1873...
Series 1/4. Captain's Abstract Logbook, 1870 - 1884
Logs of Patriarch, Captain Henry Plater on voyages London to Sydney, 1877, 1883; Thermopylae, Captain John Henderson, London to Sydney, 1881, Sydney to Shanghai 1881, to London 1882, London to Sydney 1882, Sydney to London, 1882; London to Sydney 1883, Sydney to London 1883-1884; Cutty Sark, Captain Moodie, London to Shanghai, 1870-1872...
Series 2. Torrens, 1876 - October 1923
Comprises: correspondence, notes, photographs and articles re Torrens, passenger ship to Adelaide, 1876-1903...
Series 3. Pacific Traders, c.1927-1929
Comprises: correspondence, press cuttings, and notes re Bully Hayes, trading in the Pacific and 'blackbirding'...
Series 5. Letters re Sundry Ships, 1911 - 1923
(11p)
Series 6. Hawaiian Sugar Fleet, c.1929
Comprises: Correspondence with Alfred Moore (Penzance), draft articles and notes on ships engaged in carrying sugar from Hawaii to US ports c. 1929...
Series 9. Titania, c.1911-1928
Comprises: Correspondence, voyages book, notes and press cuttings re Titania and other China tea clippers, including Halloween and Sir Lancelot. Includes references to voyages to Australia...
Series 16. Abstract log of Cutty Sark, 1889 - 1895
Includes voyages: Sydney/London, 1889/90; London/Sydney, 1890; Sydney/London 1890/91; Sydney/London 1891/92; London/Newcastle, 1892; Brisbane/London, 1894/95...
Series 18/3. Correspondence, 1928 - 1929
All letters to Lubbock, unless noted. Includes carbons of Lubbock's replies.
C File, April 1928 - September 1929 (File)
Filmed selectively.
Series 20. Correspondence, 1880 - 1936
All letters to Lubbock, unless noted...
E File, October 1883 - February 1933 (File)
Henry E. Earp (Hull), 25 October 1929 (Item)
Enclosing paper by Captain David Thomson on voyages of Euphrosyne c.1887 - 1907 on Australia trade. (17p.)
J.C.B. Jarvis (Tayport), 13 February 1933 (Item)
Enclosing paper on Earl Dalhousie, taking emigrants to AustraliaIncludes: photograph of ship. (6p.)
N File, June 1930 - December 1930 (File)
S File, July 1931 - April 1934 (File)
Series 30/5. Log and journal kept on HMS Beagle and HMS Nelson, [June] 1881 - May 1884
On Australian station...
Series 33/2. Captain Pattman's Voyages, 1883 - 1907
Notes on Captain Pattman's and others' voyages in sailing ships, many to Australia. Ships include: Loch Katrine, Loch Long, Heather Bell, Young Australia, Queen of Colonies, Dundee, City of Adelaide, Mermerus, Loch Torridon, Loch Etive, Loch Shiel. Index at back.(150p.)
Series 35/3. Log of Samuel Plimsoll on a voyage London to Sydney. (74p.), 5 March 1897 - 31 October 1897
Details of course, wind, weather, some remarks on weather, duties of crew, 'Mr Guigold passenger expired very quietly without a struggle', 18 May...
Series 38/6. Register of London Whalers
Includes notes on Southsea Whalers owned by Samuel Enderby and Sons and Green Wigram and Green...
Series 38/7. A Journal of a voyage from London to the coast of Peru by the whale ship Georgiana, 1802 - 1803
by William Mott...
Series 38/8. Log of the William Southsea whaling ship by William Mott, 1796 - 1803
Details of leaving London in company of other ships, 12 April 1796; duties of crew; rounding Cape Horn; Isle of Masafuro; killing whales; Chatham Island; watching for turtles; other whaling ships; scurvy; catching turpins on James Island; Narborough Island...
Series 38/10. Voyage of Comet to Southsea Fishery, 1812 - 1815 and notes from voyage of the Rattler by Captain James Colnett, 24 December 1792 - 1815
(47p.)
Extracts from log of Hull Whaler Comet to Southsea fishery, 3 September 1812 - 3 December 1815 (Item [A])
Details of ship, Captain Abel Scurr; other Southsea whalers; course; rounding Cape Horn; rendezvous at Mocha Island; catching sperm whales; duties of crew; rebel action in Telquana Roads, Comet boarded and crew taken prisoner; Comet liberated; order finally restored by Spanish and Comet allowed to sail after being detained 12 months; killing blackfish; killing seals on Hood, Charles and Gardener Islands to make shoes for crew; death of Captain Scurr at Callao; voyage home.
Notes from a voyage to the South Atlantic and round Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, 1798 (Item [B])
For the purpose of extending the Spermaceli Whale Fisheries and other objects of commerce by ascertaining the Ports, Bays, Harbours and anchoring births in certain islands and coasts in those seas at which the ships of the British merchants might be refitted undertaken and performed by Captain James Colnett of the Royal Navy in the ship Rattler.
Series 39/4. Log of and notes on Normancourt by Frank Logan, 17 March 1879 - 13 July 1879
Copy of journal kept by passenger Frank Logan on voyage of Normancourt, London to Sydney...
Series 39/5. Thermopylae Notebook, 1868 - 1895
Notes, correspondence and press cuttings on the voyages of Thermopylae to Australia. Correspondents include Charles Hopkins (Brisbane).
Series 39/13. Captain D.Williams Logs of Medway and Bellands, 12 September 1916 - 12 May 1927
(83p.)
Series 39/25. Captain Edward John Molony's Abstracts, 1874 - 1897
Voyages book for British Statesman, 1874, 1877-1880; British Commodore, 1875-1876; British Merchant, 1880-1893 and British Isles, 1893-1897 on voyages to and from Australia...
Series 39/31. South Sea Islands. Cuttings and notes
Subjects include: William Henry 'Bully' Hayes; Tahitian customs; fauna; vocabularies; sandalwood trade; Pitcairn Island; Hawaii; New Zealand dependencies; canoes...
Series 41. Miscellaneous Logs, 6 January 1855 - 31 May 1912
Filmed selectively.
Abstract log of Loch Broom of Glasgow, London to Melbourne, 31 August - 16 December 1911 and Melbourne to London, 23 February 1912 - 31 May 1912 (File [A])
Details of weather, course, position, remarks - weather, winds, sails set, anchorage at Port Adelaide; anchorage at Williamstown...