Guide to the Collections held by the National Maritime Museum London (as filmed by the AJCP)

Visit to Honolulu (16p.), 2 April 1879 - 16 April 1879 (Item)

Details of visit to Honolulu - social events; King at first refused to recieve Admiral; Bishop of Honolulu confirms seven sailors.

Letters, 1 March 1929 (File)

Sending congratulations for his appointment to New Zealand station. Some letters also address the people in Australia and New Zealand.

Correspondents include: M.P.A. Hankey, George Hope, R.N. Skelton, Edgar W. Buckingham, Dudley North.

Reverend Reginald Barlett (L.M.S. Weston Super Mare) to Blake with memories of events in Samoa, 19 January 1938 (File)

Francis Hull (RNVRHQ, Auckland) to Blake, 19 January 1938 (File)

Auckland Division of RNVR regret his decision, 'the monument you built in New Zealand will endure for many many years to come'.

W. Kinross White (Napier) to Blake, 20 January 1938 (File)

Memories of visit by Blake and Captain Crutchley to Napier.

F. Milner (Waitaki Boys' High School) to Blake regrets on his retirement, 19 February 1938 (File)

Robert Clark-Hall (Christchurch, New Zealand) to Blake re his life in New Zealand, 19 February 1938 (File)

Extract copy of letter from Commodore Loring to Admiralty (Isis, Auckland), 27 April 1860 (File 31)

Re Blake's conduct as Senior Lt. of Niger and his wound. (2p.)

Admiralty to Blake granting him a pension in consideration of injuries received in New Zealand. (1p.), 27 July 1861 (File 33)

Admiralty to Blake granting him a gratuity in consideration of wounds. (1p.), 30 October 1861 (File 34)

Blake to Admiralty requesting posting on Australian Station. (Copy, 2p.), n.d. [18 October 1870?] (File 43)

Admiralty to Blake re his pension. (1p.), 18 March 1865 (File 44)

Report on proceedings relative to enquiries into case of Curlew, Mary Ida and Kate captured and destroyed by natives of New Hebrides. (17p.), 4 August 1867 (File 58)

Admiralty to Blake acknowledging his letter requesting post on Australian Station. (1p.), 20 October 1870 (File 61)

Abstract logs of Alligator and Pelorus, 28 January 1840 - 7 March 1841 (File CHR/5)

Details of course; position; wind; remarks - voyage to Port Essington; building settlement at Port Essington.

Includes: register of temperature of the atmosphere at Victoria. 3 March 1840 - 17 January 1841.

(60p.)

Letterbook of Pelorus at Port Essington and Singapore, 13 March 1840 - 6 July 1841 (File CHR/6)

Copies of letters to Captain Kuper (Alligator); John Moyle (Diana); Captain J.McArthur R.M.; Commander of East India Station and others.

Subjects include: transfer of crew; damage to Pelorus; arming ship against Malays; purchasing beef from Dutch ship Diana; activities at Port Essington 'preparatory to the return of Sir J.J.Gordon Bremer to this settlement'; conflict with marines; conduct of John Armstrong, Botanist; effects of rationing of fresh meat and vegetables; health of company; death of William Crawford, mate; purchasing stores from Dutch settlement at Coepang; men discharged to Wellesley; discharge of invalids; decommissioning at Singapore.

(48p.)

Board of Ordnance, Gunners Stores Supply Book, Pelorus, 18 October 1838 - 12 March 1840 (File CHR/9)

Details of powder; tools; cartridges; guns etc.

(26p.)

Board of Ordnance, Gunners Stores, Expense Book, Pelorus, 25 January 1837 - 28 June 1841 (File CHR/10)

Details of stores and their use.

(37p.)

Musterbook of Pelorus, 21 January 1837 - 13 April 1841 (File CHR/13)

Details of ship's company; name; position; when and where enlisted etc.; Includes 2 natives; marines; supernumeries; New Zealand chiefs, wives and children.

(35p.)

Pay book of Pelorus, 1837 - 1840 (File CHR/14)

Details of ship's company; names, place of birth, age, charges and deductions, sum raised by selling dead and run men's effects.

(41p.)

Allotment book of Pelorus, c.1840 (File CHR/15)

Details of next of kin of ship's company.

(7p., incomplete)

Expense book of Boatswain's stores of Pelorus, 1 April 1838 - 30 July 1839 (File CHR/16)

Details of stores and their use withdrawn while Pelorus was at King George's Sound, Port Jackson, New Zealand, Launceston and Hobart.

(18p., damaged)

Receipt for persons discharged from Pelorus to the military post at Victoria (8p.), 16 March 1841 (File CHR/17)

Captain's order book (20p.), 1840 (File CHR/18)

Letters received from Captain John McArthur, commander of marines and acting commandant Port Essington, 4 May 1840 - 16 March 1847 (File CHR/23)

(51 letters)

Nos. 1, 4 January 1841; 2-46, 4 May 1840 - 16 March 1847; 47, 6 July 1840; 48, 14 September 1840; 49, 15 March 1841; 50, 27 January 1841; 52, 24 January 1841.

Subjects include: countermining of orders by Chambers; McArthur to appeal to the Commander in Chief; serving of extra grog allowance; Mr Armstrong refuses to do duty as gardener to the colony; McArthur refuses to open communications which 'do not acknowledge the authority of Her Majesty's commission under which he is acting'; reception of supplies; wreckage picked up not part of Orontes; native 'Jack White' seen in Mangrove swamp with musket; birth of Margaret Mew, daughter of Sergeant Mew of Royal Marines; birth of Josiah Davis, son of Private Davis; disagrees with Chambers' proposal to sail to Coupang for supplies; requests bread for Aboriginal prisoner; state of provisions; relations between them [as to who has superior authority].

Includes A report of the crimes and punishment of four privates of the Royal Marines serving within the Post established at Victoria (9-03-1841)

Papers re Pelorus, c. 1840 (File CHR/24(i) No.1-51)

Correspondence, receipts, reports on stores, equipment and service of various officers.(61p.)

Items of interest include:

31 January 1840. Orders from Sir J.J. Bremer to Chambers to proceed to Port Essington.

18 March 1840. Orders from Commander Augustus Kuper to Chambers to remain at Port Essington to protect the settlement.

Papers re Pelorus and Alligator, c. 1840 (File CHR/24(ii) No. 52-93)

Correspondence, bills, receipts, reports of surveys on stores and medical matters. (c. 65p.)Items of interest include:

5 June 1840. Commissariat Office (Sydney) to Sir J.J. Gordon Bremer re payment to Lt. Drury of Alligator.

8 January 1841. List of effects of W. Crawford.

9 July 1841. Sale of Pelorus at Singapore.

14 January 1840. Proclamation by Sir George Gipps of extent of territory of N.S.W.

26 March 1839. Sir J.J. Gordon Bremer (Port Essington) to resident at Coepang re trade.

6-7 April 1840. Captain Moyle (Diana, Port Essington) to Chambers re sale of buffaloes.

18 April 1840. Stores for use of settlement at Port Essington.

17 September 1840. A. Austin Baukier, Acting Surgeon, (Port Essington) to Chambers re health of ship's crew.

31 October 1837. W.J. Acton (Kew) instructions for John Armstrong, gardener of new colony.

15-16 January 1840. Bearings taken by John Armstrong between Port Essington and Van Diemen's Gulf.

31 March 1842. J.Forshall (Secretary British Museum) to Chambers acknowledging gift of fauna from Port Essington.

27 January 1842. P.B.Duncan (Oxford) to Children re gift of bird skins for Ashmolean Museum.

Transfer papers for various officers and ratings on Pelorus, 27 June 1839 - 3 March 1840 (File CHR/25)

(8 documents).

Archival History

Originally filmed on AJCP reel M3078

Australian Corps. Circular notice and programme of visit to Australian Corps by LCC and others. (2p.), 19 September 1918 (Item)

Australian High Commission to LCC re his article in Morning Post, 1 October 1918 (Item)

Prime Minister's Department (Melbourne) to LCC re migration, 4 May 1925 (Item)

Sir John Monash (Australian Corps HQ) to LCC, 3 October 1918 (Item)

Re his article in Morning Post.

Plunkett (ACMF Camp) to LCC, 18 October 1918 (Item)

Re his article in Morning Post 'most flattering article to the Australian soldier yet written'. (4p.)

Two photographs of Australian troops playing football at Suez, November 1917 (Item)

H. Rawlinson (General Commanding 4th Army) to Australian Corps re victory on August 8th, 16 August 1918 (Item)

John Monash (Australian Corps HQ) to Australian Corps re battle to be fought on 8th, 7 August 1918 (Item)

Notes on battle fought at Peronne, September 1918, n.d. (Item)

Log of Galatea (391p.), 29 July 1868 - 2 June 1871 (File)

Details of position; wind; weather; remarks; duties on board; sails set; reprovisioning ship; landing of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in state at various ports; court martial of Mr McDonough, Engineer; other ships in squadron; deaths and burials of seamen; dry dock at Cockatoo Island; voyage back to England.

Places visited include: Plymouth; Madeira; Cape of Good Hope; Fremantle; Adelaide; Melbourne; Sydney; Wellington; Nelson; Auckland; Tahiti; Hawaii; Japan; China; Singapore; Calcutta; Ceylon; Mauritius; Cape of Good Hope; Wellington; Sydney; New Caledonia; Auckland; Falkland Islands; Devonport.

Includes: track charts and sketches. (Some faint pages.)

Doughty (Constance, Honolulu) to Commander in Chief, 14 April 1884 (File ff.402-463)

Re voyage from Valparaiso; Easter Island; Honolulu; report on Pitcairn Island; names of families on Pitcairn Island.

(Very faint, blurred, pressed letterbook, illegible in places).

W.M.Gibson (Honolulu) to [Wodehouse] that Constance did not salute the Hawaiian flag, 14 April 1884 (File f.28)

Wodehouse (Honolulu) to Doughty re non salute to flag, 15 April 1884 (File f.29)

Doughty (Constance, Esquimalt) to Wodehouse re salute, 29 April 1884 (File ff.30-31)

Doughty (Constance, Honolulu, Tahiti) to Commander in Chief, 1 September 1884 - 28 December 1884 (File ff.82-134)

Re voyage from San Francisco; audience with King Kalahaua; visit from King; report on Line Islands; report on Penrhyn Island -native control; voyage to Tahiti; remarks on Cook Islands; Mr Exham of Raratonga who wishes to be regarded as vice consul; report on Raratonga.

Doughty (Constance, Honolulu) to Commander in Chief, 30 November 1885 (File ff.325-326)

Re voyage from Acapulco; celebration of anniversary of Hawaiian independence.

Log of Portland (491p.), 20 September 1850 - 1 May 1854 (File [A])

Details of wind; course; remarks; duties on board; sails set; provisioning ship; deaths of seamen; visits from VIPS.

Places visited include: Devonport; Valparaiso; Vancouver's Island; Honolulu; Huahine Island; Pitcairn Island; Valparaiso; Easter Island; Pitcairn Island; Valparaiso; Rio de Janeiro.

Includes: sketches, track charts, details of Portland, abstract log, crew; plants picked on Pitcairn and Easter Island.

Abstract log of Constance (4p.), 1882 - 1885 (File [B])

Three photographs of Constance and Portland, n.d. (File [C])

Abstract log of Lincolnshire, London to Melbourne, 20 February 1868 - 12 March 1868 (Item [A])

Details of course; weather; remarks; winds; pilot boarding. (Incomplete).

Log of Hampshire, Melbourne to London, 13 April 1872 - 10 May 1872 (Item [B])

Details of leaving Sandridge railway pier; health officer passing all passengers except one woman; cook puts saltwater into tea pots of passengers; seasickness; passing coast of Tasmania; captain reading church service; heavy weather and sea break open hencoops and sheep pens; death of third class passenger. (Incomplete).

Details of orders at stationers? from Government Printer, Whitney Powell and Co and other firms for stamps, pads, forms, pencils, letter balances, n.d. (Item [A])

Log of Hampshire Captain Ridgers on voyage Melbourne to London kept by Thomas Lilley, 13 April 1872 - 12 July 1872 (Item [B])

Details of: leaving Sandridge; seasickness; weather; coast of Tasmania; storm; sheep drowned; rounding Cape Horn; Falkland Islands; sighting other vessels; food; English Channel. Log is on pages for 8-27 June.

Order book for Calliope, 1854 (Item)

Includes: Orders issued by Captain; duties of officers of the watch, signatures and rank of crew; copies of letters written by Fitzgerald on Calliope at Port Jackson and at sea, 12 October 1854-7 June 1855 re debts of officers; gun practice; wearing of uniform.

(18p.)

Henry Foster (London) to Franklin re voyage to South Seas. (3p.), 4 December 1827 (Item 11B)

Franklin (London) to Kendall re voyage of Chanticlier. (3p.), 16 December 1827 (Item 16)

Franklin (London) to Kendall re Foster's Southsea expedition. (4p.), 29 April 1828 (Item 18)

Franklin to Mrs Kendall returning Kendall's drawings, refs to Chanticlier. (4p.), August 1828 (Item 20)

Franklin (London) to Mrs Kendall, 5 February 1829 (Item 22)

Re Chanticlier expedition 'Captain Foster in conjunction with his officers are doing everything in a most superior manner'. (4p.)

Franklin (London) to Kendall re Kendall's arrival at Portsmouth, why he left Chanticlier. (4p.), 14 April 1830 (Item 23)

Franklin (London) to Kendall re expedition. (4p.), 17 April 1830 (Item 24)

Note re death of William Fraser, swept overboard in 1890, n.d. (Item 1)

B. Maitland (Loch Trool, Valparaiso) to John Fraser re death of William Fraser, 18? August 1890 (Item 2)

William Fraser (n.pl.) to Jack re Jack's going to America, 26 March 1885 (Item 3)

William Fraser (Halcione, Port Nelson) to Jack, 14 June 1887 (Item 4)

Re arrival at Nelson 'the garden of New Zealand'; voyage to NZ 'The beef has been six times round the Horn to the cook's certain knowledge'.

William Fraser (Merope, Newcastle) to Jack, 14 December 1888 (Item 5)

Re visit to Sydney; voyage out from England 'no butter, no marmalade or anything else'; ship leaks.

Photograph of William Fraser, n.d. (Item 6)

Correspondence: Letters from Fremantle (Eclipse, New Zealand and Sydney) to family, n.d., 28 February [1864] - 14 May 1866 (File FRE/107/A)

Subjects include: journey through France; voyage on Bengal taking command of Eclipse at Maunkau; Maori wars; social events; battle of Gate Pa; Sir George Grey; visiting missions with Bishop Selwyn; trips to Wellington, Auckland, Kawau, East Coast; voyage to Sydney; social events in Sydney 'Sydney is a very gay place'; return to Auckland; Poverty Bay; expedition to Waikato Country.

(312p., some crossed letters.)

Correspondence: Miscellaneous letters (29p.), n.d., 1864-1918 (File FRE/107/B)

Includes:

Thomas Warren, (n.d.). Adventure in Southseas - events on board Eclipse

Charles Hope (Waikiki) to Fremantle (7 May 186?): re request from people of Hobart that a vessel be despatched to Middle Island to look for crews of wrecked vessels.

Robert Jenkins (Miranda, Pahiki) to Fremantle (15-10-1864) re Maoris 'the Northern Maori is much the strongest'.

Gilbert Main (Rotorua) to Fremantle (10-12-1918) re voyage in Eclipse.

Account of Court Martial, 1866 (File FRE/108)

Charge against Fremantle for allowing Eclipse to run aground on 13 July 1865 on a sunken rock near Wharariki and Fremantle's speech in defence.

(13p.)

Eclipse letterbook, October 1862 - 19 January 1866 (File FRE/117)

Copies of letters written by commander of Eclipse reporting the proceedings of the ship (Spithead, Portsmouth, Sydney, Auckland, Taranaki, Maunkau, Waikato). October 1862-19 January 1866. (348p.)

Subjects include: movements of crew; ship's equipment and qualities; accounts; movements of other ships; 'blackbirding'; attack on Maoris at Taranaki; Fremantle assumes command; copy of translation of letters addressed by Kereopa to Bishop of New Zealand, 12 March 1865.

Eclipse letterbook, 27 January 1866 - 15 October 1870 (File FRE/118A)

Copies of letters written by Fremantle on Eclipse reporting proceedings of the ship (Auckland, Wellington, Raglan, Sydney, Sheerness).(108p.)

Subjects include: stores and equipment for the ship; taking Sir George Grey to Tauranga; deaths of four men of 70th Regiment by drowning off Napier; surveys of coast; accounts; loss of main mast during storm off Rio de Janeiro; award of New Zealand medal.

Papers re New Zealand, April 1865 (File FRE/118C)

Copies of letters re fears of people residing in Coromandel and Auckland of a Maori uprising.

Correspondents include: J. Mackay (Auckland); Captain Charles Hope (Brisk, Auckland); D. Tookey (Coromandel).

(13p.)

Letterbook of Arrogant and Juno, 23 November 1854 - 2 December 1857 (File FRE/204)

23 November 1854-2 December 1857 (100p.)

Copies of letters from Captain Fremantle (Juno, Trincomalee, Sydney, Tahiti, Apia, Cocos Islands, Spithead) to Admiralty and others reporting proceedings of ship.

Subjects include: giving passage home to two ship wrecked Sydney men; financial matters; stores, clothing, provisions and equipment; North Australian Exploring Expedition, led by Mr Gregory.

From back of volume: Copies of letters by Fremantle (Juno, Sydney, Pitcairn Island) to Juno Paymaster. (6p.)

11 December1854-21 May 1857.

Subjects include: supplies; examinations of midshipmen and cadets; food and soap for Pitcairn Islanders.

Filmed selectively.

Letterbook of Juno, 1 January 1855 - 9 December 1857 (File FRE/205)

Copies of letters by Captain Fremantle (Juno, Sydney, Pitcairn Island, Tahiti, Apia, Tongatabu, Cocos Islands, Spithead) to Sir Michael Seymour, Commander in Chief, The Admiralty and others reporting the proceedings of the ship.

Subjects include: stores and provisions; movements of other ships, including French ships; transmission of treasure from Australia; enquiry into conduct of John MacGillivray at request of Captain Denham of Herald 'It did not appear that Mr MacGillivray at any period ... had ever shown any acknowledgement or courtesy towards Captain Denham'; possibility of extending protection over New Hedrides and Fiji; North Australian Expedition to Victoria River, visit to Pitcairn Island to ascertain if population are willing to remove to Norfolk Island; census of Pitcairn Island as at 19 September 1855; situation on Tahiti; case of Crescent at Apia; condition of inhabitants of Manua - 'all weapons of war had been destroyed or cast aside - theft was unknown'; keeping of Sabbath at Pago Pago; characteristics of the Samoans; visit to Friendly Islands and Fiji; exemplary worth of missionaries; French designs in Polynesia; conditions at Norfolk Island; visit to Hobart; circumstances of placing Lt H.B.Burnaby under arrest; visit to Friendly Islands; visit to Pitcairn Islanders now on Norfolk Island - their new circumstances; character of William Pritchard and suitability to be consul at Samoa or Fiji; accusations made by Henry Hodgson; court martial of Lt Richard Bradshaw and Richard Caswell Drew, Acting Master; taking possession of Cocos Islands; met by James Ross; survey of the Islands; the origin and progress of the settlement on Cocos Islands; voyage home round Cape Horn; explanation respecting certain minor punishments.

(255p. and index at back, faint)

Notebook, 1847-1848; 1854-1856 (File FRE/206)

Includes: lists of letters received and written, 1847-1848, 1854-1856; crew lists for Juno.

(36p.)

Statement of charges made against him, 1858 (File FRE/207)

Fremantle comments on the state of Juno, the lack of discipline on board; problems in Herald between MacGillivray and Denham, charges against Lt Burnaby and Lt Bradshaw, the homeward voyage, courts martial of Lt Bradshaw and Mr Drew.

(89p., privately printed)

Log of Zealous on visit to Sandwich Islands, 20 March 1871 - 17 June 1871 (File)

Details of: course, wind, weather, remarks - sails set, duties on board; saluting Hawaiian flag; Queen Emma visits ship; movement of other ships in harbour; voyage to San Francisco.

Includes: Track chart.

Remainder of log concerns South American coast only.

R.M. Hamilton (Wellington) to his uncle, 8 October 1891 (Item)

Enclosing draft on Bank of NSW, money from his Savings Bank account; taken a share in 'Summer Gardens' 'Shows good promise of success'. (4p.)

R.M. Hamilton (Wellington) to his uncle, 23 December 1891 (Item)

Sending another draft withdrawing all RVH's money in New Zealand; financial situation in New Zealand.

Henderson (Peterel, at sea) to his mother, 18 July 1875 (File)

Re voyage to Chatham Islands; bad situation of natives; voyage to Honolulu. (16p., part crossed)

Henderson (Peterel, at sea) to his father, 4 September 1875 (File)

Re conditions on board; situation in Sandwich Islands; Honolulu; prices of goods. (12p.)

Henderson (Peterel, Sandwich Islands) to mother, 10 October 1875 (File)

Re voyage round other islands with Mr Wodehouse; coffee tree blight; labour problems; native population; missionaries; leprosy. (8p., part crossed.)

Henderson (Peterel, Kaloa) to Flora re visit to Kauai. (4p.), 7 November 1875 (File)

Henderson (Peterel, at sea) to father, 10 February 1876 (File)

Re visit to Tahiti 'a pretty island'; natives and liquor problem, Queen Pomare. (8p.)

Henderson (Nelson, Kawan Island) to father, 16 July 1882 (File)

Re voyage from Auckland; Rotorua; White terrace 'largest and finest'. (10p.)

Henderson (Nelson) to mother re Bay of Islands; Norfolk Island. (10p.), 10 August 1882 (File)

Remarks on Norfolk Island. (8p.), 25 May 1883 (File)

Remarks on Fiji. (6p.), 23 June 1883 (File)

Henderson (Nelson, Erromango) to father with impressions of Fiji. (10p.), 26 July 1883 (File)

Remarks on New Guinea and its annexation. (34p.), 2 November 1884 (File)

Henderson (Liverpool at sea, Rio, Monte Video, Cape of Good Hope, Melbourne, Hobart, Auckland, Honolulu, Valparaiso) to his parents re round the world trip, 14 May 1869 - 22 November 1870 (File)

Subjects include: other members of crew; Madeira; arrival at Melbourne; movements of other ships; impressions of New Zealand 'towns not to be compared to Australia but the country is magnificent'.

(120p., many crossed pages).

Henderson (Peterel, Honolulu) to parents re visit to Sandwich Islands. (14p.), 18 August 1875 - 3 December 1875 (File)

Henderson (Nelson, Madeira, Cape Town, Fremantle, Albany, Sydney, Hobart, Wellington, Auckland, Melbourne, Glenelg, Suva, Adelaide, Moreton Bay, Russell Vale, New Guinea, Tamar, at sea) to his parents, 9 October 1881 - 17 July 1885 (File)

Subjects include: voyage to Australia; social events at Fremantle; colonial government starting own navy; girls of Hobart; naval exercises at Hobart; 'Hobart inhabitants are more homely in their ways than Melbourne and Sydney'; social events in Sydney; death of native on Cormorant; building of house for Commodore; social events in New Zealand; pheasant problem 'they eat out the sheep'; visit to Russell Vale; Melbourne compared to Sydney; trip up Mt Lofty; visit to Port Arthur with Governor 'the old convict settlement there has been given up 7 years ... the place is rapidly falling into decay'; attending debates of Legislative Assemble in Sydney; children's party on board; sugar industry in Fiji and labour problem; induction of Bishop; Commodore's coxswain admitted to lunatic asylum; voyage to Port Moresby; Rev.Chalmers; voyage home on Tamar.

(366p, some faint letters.)

Henderson (Peterel, Honolulu; Garnet, Rio; Nelson, Sydney, Moreton Bay, Hobart; Wellington, Portsmouth) to his father, mainly about his father's affairs, 23 January 1874 - 27 April 1893 (File)

Subjects include: Ned's [his brother] position in New Zealand; Sir G.Whitmore; visits to MacCabe Family of Russell Vale; death of his mother; problems for ships going to Brisbane due to shallowness of Moreton Bay; his marriage to 'Queen' [Sarah MacCabe of Russell Vale, NSW].

(70p., some crossed letters).

S. F. Pearce (Department of Defence, Australia) re Henderson's visit to Melbourne, 13 October 1911 (File Folder 1)

Mrs MacGeorge (Dunedin) re her resignation from Eugenics Education Society, 13 January 1913 (File Folder 1)

J. A. Boyd (Port Melbourne) re VTS John Murray, 23 September 1911 (File Folder 1)

J. J. S. Harvey (Canterbury) thanking Henderson for helping Jack, 27 January 1913 (File Folder 2)

Jack Harvey (Sydney) that has secured job with Canada Cycle and Motor Agency, 4 April 1913 (File Folder 2)

Correspondence from Sir George Clarke (Government House, Melbourne) (20p.), 23 February [1902], 22 June [1902], 18 September 1902, 7 June 1903 (File Folder 3)

Subjects include: settling in at Melbourne; Boer War; Tariff Bill; Education Bill; 'there is a great deal of work to do in the state and I am studying its domestic questions very carefully'; position of Governor.

Letters from Bombay were not filmed by the AJCP.

Correspondence from his brother E. (Ned) Henderson (Te Araroa, Gisborne) to Henderson (8p.), 12 January 1904, 10 July 1906, 10 April 1907 (File Folder 6)

Subjects include: introducing George Boyd; Seddon 'does pretty much as he likes'; buying a flax mill.

Devonport Free Library and Museum acknowledging gift of New Guinea spears, photograph album and books on Australia, New Zealand, 16 March 1906 (File Folder 6)

J. Valentine (Auckland) re enquiry into medical and nursing facilities in the country, 24 March 1912 (File Folder 9)

Midwives are required to help those unfortunate women who are really the back bone of Empire and who are keeping up the birthrate under the most appalling conditions'; eugenics; change of government. (4p.)

Midshipman W.R. Gordon. The Special Service Squadron World Cruise, (63p., printed), 1923 - 1924 (File A)

Lt W.H. Henderson. The cruise of the Flying Squadron round the world, (65p., printed), 1869 - 1870 (File B)

Proof copy with MS alterations of Parts of A and B. (66p.), n.d. (File C)

Hope (Thalia, Bombay, Sydney, Tahiti, Valparaiso, Mazatlan) to other officers, including A.S. Hamond, Captain of Salamander, Tahiti. (47p.), February 1844 - September 1845 (Item)

Subjects include: state of provisions; medical survey of crew; movements of other ships; conditions in Tahiti; position of 'unfortunate' Queen; relations with French; support to be offered to British Subjects in Tahiti; ship's equipment.

Includes: Remark Book for 1844 detailing proceedings of Thalia to Sandwich Islands via Sydney. 'I found the navigation of the long dreaded Bass Straits very simple indeed'; voyage to Tahiti via Honolulu; voyage from Tahiti to Valparaiso.

Copies of letters from Hope, 15 March 1844 - 9 December 1844 (Item ff. 67-170)

Copies of letters from Hope (Thalia, Sydney, Tahiti, Honolulu, Valparaiso, San Blas) to Admiralty and others (including M. Bruat) reporting proceedings of the ship.

Subjects include: reports on crew, equipment and provisions; conditions in New Zealand, relations between settlers and natives; reports of French in Tahiti; position of Queen Pomare; raising of French flag by settlers; French attacks on natives; imprisonment of British subjects 'they were fastened to a bar of iron and were only allowed to go out three times a day to perform the functions of nature'; regrets cannot remain to protect Queen Pomare; landing British Consul General Miller; refuses to salute French flag; 'the French are detested by the Tahitians'; missionary activities, success of French Catholic priests; hoisting of French flag on Wallis Island; not able to visit Pitcairn Island due to lack of fuel and adverse winds; situation of Pitcairn Islanders; Commodore Bruat objects to HM Consul raising flag at Tahiti; carrying distressed British subjects from Sandwich and Society Islands; seizure of Hannah of Sydney at Chatham Islands by William Ellis; French Mission to Navigator's Islands.[Formerlly LBK 43]

Includes index at front of volume.

John Blankett (n.pl.) to Lords of Admiralty re suitability of Madagascar for convict settlement, 6 August [1786], 16 August [1786], 27 October [1786], 6 November 1786 (Item)

References to French activities; commercial settlement in Malacca; proposed settlement of New Holland.

Sketch respecting the Island of Madagascar, 1786 (Item)

Reasons for an establishment at Madagascar, 1786 (Item)

'In disposing of the convicts two objectives seem to present themselves. The first to send them from this country at the least expense possible and the second to make their future labour and subsistence serviceable to the state.'

Description of places on the East side of the Gulf of Bengal proper for a settlement, from a paper delivered at Madras, 1786 (Item)

Visit to Pitcairn, Society and Sandwich Islands. (70p.), 16 August 1841 - 6 November 1841 (File)

Details of: course, winds, weather, remarks - Pitcairn Island; George Adams on board; anchorage in Matavai Bay, Tahiti; Queen Pomare sends cocoa nuts and bananas; Queen comes on board; Owhyhee; John Adams, Governor on board; Honolulu; American ships in harbour; King of Sandwich Islands on board; Monterrey.

Jones (Curacoa, Morea) to Rear Admiral C. Ross. (16p.), 1841-08-31 - 1841-09-06; 1841-11-06 (File)

Re Pacific voyage; incorrect charts; Pitcairn Island; supplied islanders with arms and ammunition; influenza epidemic; condition of islanders; bartering; Matavai Bay; French; shameful conduct of Mr Cook, introducing small pox from Don Quixote; petition to France to assume protectorate of Tahiti; meeting with Queen Pomare.

Also includes:Jones (Curacoa, Monterrey Bay) to Rear Admiral Ross. Re quarantine laws at Tahiti; volcano on Owhyhee; Honolulu; complaints of British subjects in Honolulu; English trade with Sandwich Islands. (8p)

Australian envelope, October 1938 (Item)

Press cuttings from Australian newspapers, re Sir Howard Kelly's visit to Australia. (c.13 cuttings).

Includes: 'An expert examines our naval defences' Adelaide Advertiser. 21 October 1938.

'World Affairs: Singapore base'. Paper by Kelly broadcast on BBC, 14 February 1938 (Item [A])

Draft and final copy. (24p.)

'It must be readily capable of defence against attack, both by land and by sea.'

Managing Director, Advertiser (Adelaide) to Kelly (Fremantle) re his article on Australian naval defences, 21 October 1938 (Item [B])

Defence expenditure of Great Britain and Dominions, (1p.), 1933 - 1937 (Item [A])

'The Navy and the Empire' paper by Kelly. (14p.), 19 July 1935 (Item [B])

References to Australian navy.

[Review of paper on 'Strategic Position of the British Empire', by the Australian Delegation], (8p.), n.d. (Item [C])

Log of three voyages of Medway to Port Philip with emigrants and returns to London, 13 April 1849 - 27 September 1852 (File [A])

Details of: course; weather; 'single women continue to flirt with two of the crew'; performed divine service; emigrants suffering from heat; sighting other ships; death of child; Cape Otway; couple of emigrants married by the surgeon; people come on board to hire servants and labourers; return voyage with passengers; second voyage to Port Phillip; lighthouse at Shortlands Bluff; voyage to Ceylon and back to London; third voyage to Port Phillip; return to England.

2nd and 3rd voyage give details of course, wind, weather only.

(107p.)

Log of Aries, Colombo to Port Phillip, 8 August 1853 - 26 September 1853 (File [B])

Details of: course, winds, weather, remarks - performed divine service; sails set; sighting Cape Pigeons; sighting other ships.

(48p.)

From back of volume: Notes on Port of Melbourne 'one of most expensive in world'. (4p.), n.d. (File [C])

From back of volume: Draft letter? re sailing in Australian waters, (5p.), n.d. (File [D])

Log of Racer, London to Melbourne. (22p.), 10 May 1862 - 9 August 1862 (File)

Incorrectly named Medway on first page.

Details of: course, wind, weather, remarks - in company with other ships; sighted whirlwind; 'many birds about'.

Copies of Kennedy's letters (Racer) to Joshua Bros. (Melbourne and London) reporting proceedings of the ship. (34p.), 3 May 1862 - 28 September 1863 (File)

Subjects include: leaving Gravesend; absentee crew; accounts; damage done by 'hurricane'; ship's performance; passage through Torres Straits and grounding on coral reef of Bramble Cay; methods used to refloat ship; damage to ship observed when in dry dock at Calcutta and repairs effected; loading rice in Calcutta; demand for passages to Australia from Calcutta, charging £180 for cabin and £130 for steerage passengers; loading cargo in Melbourne for Calcutta; loading rice and oats for Mauritius; leaving Port Louis for Scilly.

Accounts concerning Racer (50p.), 1862 - 1863 (File)

Includes: crew pay lists; disbursements in Melbourne; disbursements in Calcutta.

Log of H.M.S. Challenger, 14 December 1828 - 14 September 1829 (File BRK/6)

Places visited include: Tristan da Cunha, Cape of Good Hope, Rottnest Island, Cockburn Sound, Cocos Island.

Details of: Course, wind, weather, remarks - sails set, weather, duties on board, taking formal possession of West coast of New Holland (2nd May 1829) - 'sent a party to the main with tents to commence forming the settlement near Swan River consisting of Lieut. Henry, Lieut. Griffin ...', working parties on shore helping settlement building houses etc., arrival of St. Leonard with cattle and stores for colony.

(89p.)

Abstract log and poems and sketches (57p.), 26 December 1828 - 11 June 1833 (File BRK/8)

Places visited include: Cape of Good Hope, Rottnest Island, Cocos Island, India, Pulo Penang, Hobart, Sydney, Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Valparaiso, Rio de Janeiro.

Details of: Course, position, weather.

Logs of H.M.S. Fly, 27 November 1842 - 21 November 1843 (File BRK/10)

Places visited include: Port Stephens, Sandy Cape, Heron Island, Port Bowen, Cape Upstart, Great Barrier Reef, Wednesday Island, North West Cape of New Holland, Rottnest Island, Fremantle, Van Diemen's Land.

Details of: Course, wind, weather, remarks - duties onboard, sails set, holding Divine Service, soundings, punishments, speaking to other ships.

(88p.)

Logs of H.M.S. Fly, 22 November 1843 - 3 April 1845; 8 April 1846 - 4 July 1846 (File BRK/11)

Places visited include: Van Diemen's Land, Port Jackson, Great Barrier Reef, Mount Adolphus, Sir Charles Hardy Islands, Sourabaya Roads, Sandlewood Island, Booby Island, Cape York, Saddle Island, Torres Strait, Darnley Island, Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena.

Details of: Course, wind, weather, remarks - duties onboard, punishments, taking soundings, wreck of Archibald Campbell on Great Barrier Reef, working on Rainers Island, landed Crown prisoners at Port Essington who has been employed on Rainers Island.

(118p.)

Sir Joseph Banks (Soho Square) to M. Billardiere re restoring the collections made on his recent voyage (4p.), 9 June 1796 (Item)

H.M.S. Wanderer at Murdoo: a reminiscence of the island of Sumatra (40p.), c. 19 November 1839 - 28 June 1844 (File 9)

Details of: Leaving Sheerness, 19 November 1839; capturing slaves off Africa; January 1844 sent to Straits of Malacca to avenge plundering of merchant ship by pirates; attacked by pirates, 4 February 1844; attacked by battery at Murdoo; landing party captures guns; Union Jack hoisted; Mr Brookes wounded; sailed to Penang and landed Mr Brookes; voyage home - 28 June 1844.

Biographical notes (16p.), n.d. (File 1)

Notes on the Riou Family, Edward Riou's early life and naval service, his voyages with Captain Cook, and appointment to Guardian; the circumstances of hitting the iceberg and being towed by whalers into Table Bay; his later career and death.

Copy also: Transcription of inscription on monument to James Robert Mosse and Edward Riou.

Discovery log (342p.), 10 February 1776 - 30 October 1778 (File 2/1)

Details of: Winds; weather; course; duties onboard; taking on stores; with Resolution at Plymouth; voyage to Cape of Good Hope; taking on stores at Table Bay; voyage to South Seas; sighting islands and rocks; position of Resolution; observations at Adventure Bay, Van Diemen's Land; voyage to New Zealand; observations at Charlotte's Sound, New Zealand; voyage to Otaheite; descriptions and position of islands sighted; Palmerston Isles; Annamoke; Rotterdam Isles 'read an order from Captain Cook for prohibiting any person trading except those appointed by the Captains'; Middleburgh; Isle of Otona; sightings of birds, seaweeds, driftwood; 5 April 1778 'natives surrounded the ships in a hostile manner'; Providence Bay.

Computations, 1789 Guardian (76p.), 11 September 1789 - 20 February 1790 (File 3/8)

Observations; altitude of the sun; distances observed of the moon.

Sketchbook from Guardian (72p.), c. 1790 (File 3/9)

Includes: Sketches of people at Cape of Good Hope, Isle of St. Helena; Isle of Ascension. Berg River farm and estate showing death of hippopotamuses.

Observations etc. by R.F. [Purser Farquarson] (51p.), 22 December 1789 - 19 January 1790 (File 7/1)

Observations relative to the loss of H.M. Guardian and the proceedings of the officers and the men who embarked in the launch of the said ship and were the 10th day picked up by the Viscountess of Bantany, French merchant ship.

Account of collision with iceberg, damage sustained by Guardian; boats launched and provisioned; Riou stays onboard Guardian; names of crew on the launch; rations while adrift; rescued by Viscountess Bantanie (sic) on 3 Jan.; conditions onboard the French ship; landing at Cape of Good Hope.

Includes: Typed transcript. (48p., two pages 14)

Remarks at sea (31p.), 23 November 1789 - 26 December 1789 (File 7/2)

Details of: Taking on livestock at Cape; sailing from Cape of Good Hope; serving 'sour krout'; sighting iceberg on December 22; hitting iceberg; damage; pumping; cattle thrown overboard; decision to abandon ship and launch boats; remaining crew drunk; Edward Riou plans to reach Marion and Crozets Islands.

Includes: Typed transcript of part of Remarks. (19p.)

Log of Guardian (112p.), 24 December 1789 - 23 February 1790 (File 7/3)

Details of: Wind; course; weather; hitting iceberg; damage sustained; pumping; launching of boats; drunkenness amongst remaining crew and convicts; making steering machine; pumps breaking down; making raft; bailing; 'no man in the ship had ever doubled the Cape before except the Botswain and one seaman'; 22 February taken in tow by whaling boat.

Includes: Typed transcript. (99p., pagination erratic)

Guardian notebook (45p.), 1797 - 1801 (File 7/4)

Includes: Note on the Guardian, signed R. Berens, 6 September 1797.

Poem, signed W.R.

Extracts from a journal of the proceedings on board H.M. Guardian, Lieutenant Riou Commander as delivered to the Admiralty Board by Mr Clements, Master.

Boats - (account of voyage by Clement in the launch and rescue by Viscountess of Bartannie).

Letters addressed to Philip Stevens, Admiralty by Riou re Guardian, 25 December 1789, 22 February 1790.

[Account of Battle of Copenhagen.]

[Riou's later career.]

[Berens was Riou's nephew.]

Account of Wages for the Gresham, 1869 - 1870 (File AMS/22/2)

Gives details of crew wages and any deductions made.

Part 1: Describes his early life and education and his voyage on Cook's third voyage and friendship with Captain King, 1783 (Item ff.1-17)

Appendix Part 1, No. 1: Trevenen (Royal Academy) to brothers and mother re death of father and his appointment to Resolution, 16 January 1776; 19 December 1775 (Item ff.[5-8])

Appendix Part 1, No. 2: Trevenen (London) to his sister that Mr Knight is to speak to Captain Cook on his behalf, June 1776 (Item f.1)

Appendix Part 1, No. 3: Transcription of notes by Trevenen in the margin to his brother's copy of Cook's last voyage (Item ff.[2-16])

Includes: Notes on Christmas Island, Nootka Sound, Cook's character and the circumstances of his death.

Details of voyage to Adelaide, 7 August 1851 - 21 October 1851 (Item ff.1-34 v)

Duties of crew; bad weather; food; sighting fish; Algoa Bay; Cape Town; natives; arrival at Adelaide; description of the Port 'the houses ... very temporarily erected; the public houses being the most substantial erections'; slothfulness of inhabitants; drunkeness; floods; taking stock on board for voyage to Mauritius.

H. Kellett (Honolulu), letters to Rear Admiral Phipps Hornby, Commander-in-Chief and Admiralty, 16 May 1849 - 18 May 1849 (Item ff.122-126)

Subjects include: Purchase of stores; placed Pandora's provisions in Government Store; discharging men; Pandora ordered to Pitcairn Island; news of Plover.

H. Kellett (Honolulu) to Commander-in-Chief and others, 5 May 1850 - 20 May 1850 (Item ff.182-193)

Subjects include: American whalers due to go to Bering Sea; surveying; purchasing stores; bad provisions; that he cannot interfere in case of Thomas Nixey.

H. Kellett (Honolulu) to Commander-in-Chief and Admiralty, 17 October 1850 - 19 October 1850 (Item f.206)

Subjects include: Arrival in Port; the Plover.

G.R. Warner (Christiania) to Lord Curzon forwarding documents, 28 February 1921 (Item f.1)

Captain G.S. Nares. Record [of H.M.S. Challenger's activities] left at Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Island (includes transcription), 31 January 1874 (Item ff.2-26)

Note written by Captain Nares, found in cairn at Kerguelen Island, 18 October 1909. [Very faint and damaged], 31 January 1874 (Item ff.29-31)

Epitaph by Sir Ernest Shackleton for those members of his 1914-1917 Antarctic Expedition. [Photostat], [n.d.] (Item f.33)

Press statement on retrieval of Shackleton's note, 29 November 1947 (Item f.34)

Voyage of Nassau from Sydney and wreck on Tristan da Cunha from journal of Williams, Chief Mate, 1825 (Item ff.73-81)

Navy Board to Captain Hamond (Wellesley, Portsmouth) requesting he report on the quality of the wheel rope made from New Zealand flax. (2p.), 4 March 1825 (File ADL/D/16)

[Formerly ADL/1/B/18].

Sir James Clark Ross Commission to Captain of Erebus (1p.), 8 April 1839 (File ADL/Q/17/5)

[Formerly ADL/3/B].

William Harvey Commission to 3rd Lieutenant of Resolution confirming Commission given by Captain Clerke, 15 February 1779 (1p.), 26 October 1780 (File ADL/Q/51)

[Formerly FD/54].

Transportation order for George Bents, signed by Queen Victoria. (1p.), 4 April 1843 (File ADL/S/7)

Harry Upjohn discharge certificate from Cutty Sark. (2p.), 5 June 1883 (File AML/F/2)

[Formerly ADL/6/A/15].

Marine Board of Queensland certificate of exemption from pilotage dues to James Clarke. (1p.), 15 May 1866 (File AML/F/8/4)

Contract ticket for vovage on Lincolnshire to Melbourne Mrs Stallard, three children and servant £150. (1p.), 23 December 1868 (File AML/U/4)

[Formerly ADL/5/B].

Letter of marque for Lord Nelson against the Dutch Republic of Batavia. (1p.), 9 March 1804 (File AML/W/5)

Manifest of Cutty Sark from Brisbane to London showing amount of wool shipped. (2p.), 29 December 1894 (File AML/Z/5/3-4)

J.A. Campbell (Burns, Philp and Co., Brisbane) to Head Office re Cutty Sark. (1 p., copy), 21 September 1961 (File AML/Z/5/5)

F. Gibson [n.pl.] to Mitchell re Cutty Sark in Australia. (1p., copy), 22 September 1961 (File AML/Z/5/6)

Marine Board of New South Wales. Pilotage Certificate for Ralph Hudson. (2p.), 17 November 1890 (File AML/Z/7/4)

Crew list for Highflyer. (2p.), December 1867 (File AML/Z/15/4)

Wages book for Highflyer. (53p.), 1867 - 1868 (File AML/Z/15/5)

Accounts re seventh voyage of Highflyer to Melbourne. (5p.), 1867 - 1868 (File AML/Z/15/6)

Crew agreement for voyage of Highflyer to Melbourne. (2p.), 5 December 1867 (File AML/Z/15/7)

[Formerly BGY/3-6].

Agreement between Henry Green and Norwood Harrison for Command of Melbourne. (1p.), 13 June 1878 (File AML/Z/15/8)

[Formerly BGY/7]

Captain Henry Norman. Discharge certificates and testimonials (57p.), 1878 - 1912 (File AML/Z/16/1-40)

Includes: Service on Remmington, Lindfield and Brabloch on voyages to and from Australia.

[Formerly BGY/8].

Bond between James Middleton of Sydney and John Watson of Yass. (3p., damaged), 23 January 1849 (Item Item 3)

Commander L.B. Denham. Track chart of H.M.S. Opal from San Francisco to Pitcairn Island and on to Valparaiso. (1p.), 1872 (Item HSR/X/8)

Opal was delivering a harmonium, a gift of Queen Victoria to the Islanders; 'great difficulty was experienced in landing the harmonium in the surf in the only landing place viz a cleft between two precipitous rocks'.

[Formerly FD/35].

Track chart of H.M.S. Alert on round the world voyage, 1878 - 1882 (Item HSR/X/9)

10 × 24 inches.

Diary of a voyage to Melbourne on Superb, Captain Henry Berridge (20p., incomplete), 22 June 1880 - 17 August 1880 (Item A)

Details of: Boarding ship with her two sons; sea sickness; other passengers; gentlemen take salt water baths on poop deck; weather; ceremony of burying the Dead Horse; ceremonies of Crossing the Line; concert on main deck; gales.

Diary of a voyage London to Melbourne to Newcastle, New South Wales to San Francisco in Suberb, Captain Berridge (170p.), 12 February 1883 - 2 October 1883 (Item B)

Details of: Boarding ship; other passengers; weather; service held on poop; ceremony of flogging the Dead Horse; fancy-dress ball; ceremonies of Crossing the Line; catching sharks; entertainments - theatricals, concerts; arrival at St. Kilda; excursions at St. Kilda; concert at Town Hall; trotting races; ship chartered to take coal from Newcastle to San Francisco; description of Newcastle ... 'Christchurch Cathedral is a very primitive building, and now being pulled down for the new Cathedral to be built'; visit to Warratah Fruit Farm; ball; football match 'most of the Newcastle team are very big young men'; visit to Sydney in Maitland ... 'the town seemed specially attractive after Newcastle'; visits to Manly, Milson's Point, Coogee Bay, by steamer to Parramatta; sailing to Newcastle on Morpeth (Saloon ticket tipped in); taking on coal 'very dusty and unpleasant'; gift of dingo 'we hope to tame it'; voyage to San Francisco; weather; services in the saloon.

Four photographs of crew on Superb, 1882-1883, Highflyer, 1874 and Walmer Castle, 1878 (Item D)

Includes: Photographs of Public Library, Melbourne, Deaf and Dumb Institution and Exhibition Building Melbourne and programme of sports held on board Superb on crossing the Equator, 24 March 1883.

The Superb Gazette, 1882 (Item E)

No. 1, 24 March 1882 - No. 6, 2 June 1882. Melbourne (23p.)

Printed edition of newspaper published on board Superb during her outward voyage to Melbourne.

Includes: List of officers and passengers; 'our daily doings'; puzzles; letters; results of whist and chess competitions; poems; notes on fauna seen during voyage.

Watercolour sketch of islands, 1 September 1876 (Item E)

Inscribed 'For dear Capt. Berridge in remembrance of many kindnesses received from him during our passage home. Highflyer, 1 Sept 1876. Mary C.G. D'Arcy'.

Note on donation, n.d. (Item F)

Archival History

[Formerly BGY/1/2].

'Tom Truelove's Knell'. Written and composed by Mr Dibdin and sung by him in his new entertainment called Great News or A Trip to the Antipodes. (3p.), n.d. (Item 3)

Archival History

[Formerly AGC/39/3].

Remarks etc. on H.M. Ship Scipion off the Island of Rispondi (33p.), 13 July 1811 (File [a])

Re military action in Java.

Testimonials and orders received by Bunce during his career and memorials presented (60p.) (File [c])

Includes:

Estimate of the British Force landed at Java

Memorial drawn up by Bunce after reduction of Java and presented to Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty

Statement of servitude

Extract from Plymouth newspaper re Bunce's action in Java (08-01-1812)

Poems in the middle of the book were not filmed by the AJCP.

Journal of medical occurrences during a voyage from Sydney to Auckland in a detachment of men of 58th Regiment [in British Sovereign], 19 September 1845 - 22 January 1846 (File [a])

Details of illnesses and accidents, and remedies. Some metereological remarks.

(87p.)

Journal of a voyage in H.M. Ship Castor from Auckland to Sydney, 16 May 1846 - 10 June 1846 (File [b])

List of invalids taken on board. (3p.)

Service on Hyacinth in East Indies, 3 December 1837 - 17 [Feb.?] 1839 (File [a])

Sailing to Madras; to Penang with mail; to Singapore - Diana arrived with captured pirates; situation of Singapore; to Malacca - Captain 'got a black cheeta'; situation of Penang 'its fruit and fish celebrated'; sailing to Madras past Sumatra.

(17p.)

Taking up command on Cruizer at Singapore, 8 August 1839 - June 1840 (File [b])

'One of the happiest periods of my life… the people very hospitable… the Governor treated me like a brother'.

(1p.)

'The Mock Doctor'. Programme for play put on by crew of Cruizer at Penang. (1p.), 9 December 1839 (File [c])

John Bull'. Programme for play put on by crew of Cruizer at Singapore, 27 February 1840 (File [d])

(1p.)

Voyage to Rio de Janeiro, 5 June 1844 - 21 October 1847 (Item ff.1-118)

Voyage to Rio de Janeiro - social events while ship refitting; round Cape Horn; Gallapagos Islands; Charles Islands; coast of South America - 'porpoise, sharks and dolphins were our constant attendants'; burning volcanoes of Central America; coast of California; San Francisco; Puget's Sound and natives; 21 October 1845, Honolulu - impression of the island, uses of taro plant, natives, houses, harbour; voyage to St. Blas - local ague complaint; Mazatlan; met with American Squadron; Valparaiso; voyage to England round Horn to Plymouth.

Abstract log of Highflyer on a voyage London to Melbourne 1869-1870 and Melbourne to London, 1869 - 1870 (File [a])

Details of position, course, weather, remarks on weather.

(22p.)

Abstract log of Highflyer on a voyage London to Melbourne and back, 1870 (File [b])

Details of position, course, weather, remarks on weather.

(21p.)

Abstract log of Highflyer on a voyage London to Melbourne, Fremantle and Calcutta and Madras, 1871 (File [c])

Details of position, course, weather, remarks on weather.

(19p.)

P and O S.S. Khedive Malta to Australia via Suez Canal; Adelaide to Sydney and return; King George's Sound to Colombo, 1885 (File [d])

Details of position, course, weather, remarks on weather.

(8p.)

Note re R.M.S. Himalaya, Sydney for London via Hobart, Melbourne and Adelaide (1p.), 1896 (File [e])

Journal of whaling voyage to South Seas. Details of course, winds, remarks on: weather, sails, sighting of other ships, whale catch, 29 May 1838 - 6 May 1842 (File)

Places visited include: Sandlewood Islands, Copany Bay, Timor Straits, Banda Sea, Hummock Islands, Honolulu, Sydney, north of New Zealand, Bay of Islands.

(Some faint pages)

Letters on spiritual subjects and cash account were not filmed by the AJCP.

[Formerly LOG/M/19]

Journal of a whaling voyage to South Seas in Recovery, 4 March 1828 - 16 March 1831 (File (a))

Details of winds, remarks on weather, position, Deacon's Group, whales caught, number of barrels of oil etc.

Places visited include: Coast of Peru, Columbia, Guam, Marianas, Japan, Kingsmill Group, Oahu, Cape Horn.

Journal of whaling voyage on Ship Matilda on voyage from London to South Seas, 31 July 1832 - 9 May 1836 (File (b))

Details of winds, course, remarks on weather, sails, whales caught etc.

Places visited include: Sandwich Islands, Rotches Island, Mariana Islands, Port Jackson, Bay of Islands, Cape Horn.

[Formerly LOG/M/20]

(Some faint pages)

Position at noon of Ben Cruachan, London - Sydney, 11 March 1886 - 11 June 1886 (File (a))

Details of position, weather, runs, sighting of sharks, birds, birth of child to Mrs Pearson.

Copy of abstract of log of Ben Cruachan, 11 March 1886 - 9 June 1886 (File (b))

[Details of the ship]: length, draught, passenger accommodation, livestock carried, names of passengers, meals, amusements, weather (File (c))

Plan of dining room (File (d))

Copy of letter of appreciation signed by passengers to Captain A. Roberts, June 1886 (File (e))

Notes of voyage to England via Melbourne, Hobart and Cape Town, 20 February 1903 - 18 April 1903 (File (f))

Ticket from Thames and Mersey Line of Australian Packets for voyage on Ben Cruachan [at back], 22 February 1886 (File (g))

4p. of notes re South Africa, including stories of Australians in South Africa. (Pencil, faint) (File (h))

Journal of a voyage in Herzogin Cecile, Port Lincoln to Falmouth, 15 January 1935 - 18 May 1935 (File JOD/94/1)

Details of ship, Captain's quarters; other passengers; weather; food; killing sheep; gales round Horn; changing sails; becalmed in Doldrums; gales approaching Falmouth carry away a number of sails.

Includes: Chart of route; watercolour sketches by W.L.; photographs of ship, life on board, crew etc.

Copy also: List of crew and details of ship on end covers.

(83p.)

Journal of a voyage in Viking, Wallaroo to Falmouth, 13 February 1936 - 16 June 1936 (File JOD/94/3)

Details of ship, quarters; which sails set; sighting birds, ships; duties on board; killing pig; arrival at Falmouth; hear Herzogin run aground near Salcombe.

Includes: Photographs of ship, life and duties on board and crew etc.

Copy also: Crew list and details of ship on end covers.

(102p.)

Journal of voyage in Olivebank, Goteburg to Port Lincoln, 9 October 1936 - 6 February 1937 (File JOD/94/4)

Details of ship and quarters; three American sailors desert own ship and ask to be taken on without pay; food; weather; grey cat found in hold - previous Ship's cat stolen by Archibald Russell; gales - ballast shifts, sea anchor out; repairing sails; crossing the line; albatrosses; sighting Tristan da Cunha; celebrating Christmas Eve in Finnish custom; hunting rats; sighting Neptune Island; hear news of abdication; Port Victoria.

Includes: Crew list and photographs of ship, activities of crew, Port Victoria etc.

(103p.)

Journal of a voyage in Olivebank, Port Victoria to Falmouth, 15 March 1937 - 18 May 1940 (File JOD/94/5)

15 March - 15 July 1937. Details of sailing from Port Victoria; weather; storms; food; March 32nd crossing date line; killing pig - 'blood pancakes'; white crows on board; changing sails; catching fish; becalmed 'we believe Olivebank to have taken root now and expect every day to see leaves beginning to show on the mast'; Falmouth; Glasgow.

Includes: Crew list; photographs of ship, activities of crew etc. and press cuttings re Winifred Lloyd Australian Women's Weekly, 18 May 1940.

(76p.)

Journal of a voyage in Olivebank, Copenhagen to Durban to Port Lincoln, 7 October 1937 - 13 March 1938 (File JOD/94/6)

Details of settling in; new crew; poor cooking by Steward; Swedish lessons from Captain; ceremonies of crossing the line; celebrations on Christmas Eve; holding a seance; W.L. put onto painting figuehead; visitors on board at Durban; leaving Durban for Australia, 12 February; sewing sails; lying off Boston Island. (116p.)

Includes: Crew list and photographs of ship, crew, activities on board, Durban, etc.

(116p.)

Journal of a voyage in Olivebank, Port Lincoln to Falmouth and Glasgow, 14 March 1938 - 1 October 1938 (File JOD/94/7)

Details of loading cargo at Port Victoria; extra police on duty from Adelaide 'hanging around looking for trouble and we generally gave them a run for their money as, of course, it would be bad for them to get their pay for nothing'; voyage via Cape of Good Hope; weather; duties on board; rationing of fruit and chocolate; changing sails; short rations; sighted Ascension Island; Falmouth after 135 days; Glasgow.

Includes: Crew list; sail list; photographs of life on board, crew etc. and press cutting 'Woman sails as able bodied seaman' Daily Tribune (Durban), 10 January 1938.

(128p.)

Journal of a voyage from Hobart Town to Sidney and from hence towards Friendly Isles and Feegee in schooner Triton, 17 September 1840 - 21 March 1841 (File JOD/97/1)

Details of voyage in missionary schooner; weather; religious thoughts; Kawia, New Zealand; Waingaroa Harbour; Sunday service; Mount Egmont; voyage to Friendly Islands; Tonga - visited by native chiefs; Rev. Waterhouse and Rev. Tucker visited 'heathen fortress called the Bea'; voyage to Vavau; Friendly Islands - native service.

(44p.)

The missionary brigantine Triton disbursements, 1840-09 - 1844-02; 1846-02-10 - 1846-04-06 (File JOD/97/2)

Includes:Journal of voyage from England to Sydney and New Zealand in missionary Ship John Wesley, 10 February - 6 April 1846

Details of expenses - beer for crew, provisions, coals etc.

Account of nails supplied.

Log of John Wesley: details of course, wind etc.

Subseries JOD/137/1. Journal of 1st and 2nd voyages to Adelaide and return, 26 October 1896 - 17 July 1898

Details of crew; position; weather conditions; ceremonies of crossing the line; shooting albatrosses; killing livestock; duties on board; anchoring at Port Adelaide; account of stay in Adelaide; return voyage to England - same details; visit to St. Helena; details of 2nd voyage as before; death of passenger on return voyage to England. (280p.)

Subseries JOD/137/2. Journal of 3rd voyage to Adelaide and return, 25 October 1898 - 28 August 1899

Details as before; nearly dashed on rocks during fog; striking icebergs - damage; 'the ladies passengers kept cool all through'; return voyage to England - loss of seaman overboard. (158p.)

[Various inks and pencil used]

Journal of voyage in llione, London to Negapatam and Pulo-Penang, 5 August 1868 - 8 September 1869 (File [A])

Details of ship's company; loading coal and locomotive machinery at Newcastle; weather; sighting fish and birds; sails set; Negapatam Regatta; light phenomena; description of Penang; quarrelling between ship's company; voyage home. (43p.)

Copy also: Draft article? letter? re light phenomena in Straits of Malacca.

Journal of voyage in Darra, London to Adelaide and return, 9 July 1870 - 1 March 1871 (File [B])

Details of crew and passengers; weather; sails set; course; sighting other ships; arrival Port Adelaide, 24 September 1870; passengers on return voyage; Mrs Taylor commits suicide by dropping through stern porthole. (32p.)

Official account of a cyclone experienced by Captain Lodwick on the homeward passage of the previous voyage, 17 December 1869 (File [C])

Detailing the narrow escape of the Darra and account rewritten as draft article? (4p. and 9p.)

Subseries JOD/180/1. Diary (134p.), 9 November 1869 - 12 July 1870

Details of other passengers; weather; fight between passengers; Divine Service held on deck; 'dead horse' day; 'the jacks celebrated the crossing the line in a most scurvy and low spirited manner'; taking photographs; sighting other ships; entertainment - concert, drunkenness on Christmas Day, card games; presentation of testimonial to Captain; description of Melbourne - 'everything seems to be only half finished'; visit to pantomime 'at which there were some very severe cuts at the 'mother country''; hot winds; 'sick of Melbourne', decides to go to Tasmania; bad passage to Launceston; Tasmania 'a most delightful place'; Campbelltown; rabbit shooting; kangaroo hunting; Melbourne; took a passage home in Lady Jocelyn; 'Merchant of Venice' at Princess' Theatre 'never laughed so hard in all my life'; sports at Melbourne Cricket Ground; debate at House of Assembly; 29 March 1870, embarked on Lady Jocelyn - other passengers; fishing; entertainments and games; 'Lady Jocelyn Weekly Times'; gales; sighting iceberg; death of Capt. Heywood; rounding Horn; crossing the line dinner and dance.

Subseries JOD/180/2. Account of expenses in a trip round the world (40p.), 1 November 1869 - 30 March 1870

Details of costs of hotel bills, coach fares, theatre, train to Sandridge, etc.

Subseries JOD/180/3. Tracing of track round the world

Subseries JOD/187/1. Journal of voyage on Hotspur (presumed to be a pseudonym for Percy), 15 August 1828 - [n.d.]

Details of embarkation and taking leave of family; sea sickness; Madeira; food and drink; weather; sighting other ships, birds; ceremonies of crossing the line; Simons Town; Lord John Churchill sends potatoes from his farm; visit to winery at Constantia; entertainments in Cape Town; description of Cape Town; St. Pauls' Island - pack of wild hogs. (139p.)

Includes: Watercolour sketches of life on board.

(No dates given; some damaged pages; some missing pages - pagination erratic.)

Subseries JOD/187/2. 'The Emigrant or Ups and Downs' Vol. 2 (134p.)

Details of enquiry by Capt. Joshua Halbton, Commander of Hotspur against John Freeboy, Mate, for purloining spirits ; quarrels amongst passengers; King Island; Cape Otway - 15 October 1829; arrive Sydney Harbour, 1 November 1829; description of Sydney - 'the public buildings are numerous and well adapted for business', prices of mutton and beef; aboriginals 'excessively fond of drink, foolishly given them by the white inhabitants in exchange for opossums, young kangaroos, etc.'; residence at Cummings Hotel; trip to Parramatta - description of countryside, walk in Government Gardens, prices, Rose Inn kept by Dame Walker; bushrangers on road to Sydney; visit to Cockle Bay to bathe and eat oysters; taking up lodgings in Pitt Street.

Loose pages at end of volume: applying to Superintendent of Convicts for a female servant - details of Lucy Charrington, transported for 14 years; accident on way to Parramatta causing death of Lucy; inquest.

(Few dates given; damaged pages; loose pages at back of volume; missing pages.)

Subseries JOD/187/3. Xeroxes of Gardner family tree; press cutting re P.J. Mason; memorandum of services of Capt. James A. Gardner, 1782-1814; J.A. Gardner's death certificate, 3 Oct. 1898 (9p.)

Subseries LOG/C/35. Commander William Igglesden. Log of Tigris on voyage to Torres Straits, May 1836 - November 1836

Tigris was ordered to discover the fate of Charles Eaton, lost on a voyage from Sydney to Singapore.

Details of: Position; course; remarks - weather; voyage Bombay to Cochin; Celyon; voyage to Hobart - social engagements; Port Jackson - social engagements; excursion to Parramatta; visit to Sydney Museum; voyage to Torres Straits; friendly reception by Murray Islanders; memorandum from Captain of Isabella re fate of Charles Eaton; the natives of Murray Islands and their customs; Double Island; the fate of crew and passengers of Charles Eaton at hands of natives of Boydancy Island as told by survivor Ireland; Wednesday Island - natives' customs; natives of Raffles Bay; Timor - celebrations for King William's birthday; Batavia - exports, botany, prevalence of fever; voyage to Bombay.

Includes: Watercolour sketches; head of Madoo - a distinguished warrior of Murray's Island; appendices and notes re orders to search for Charles Eaton; picture of a savage by Major Mitchell.

(358p., pagination erratic)

Subseries LOG/C/52. Lieutenant Robert Scott. Logs of Ternate, Star and Duke of Clarence (26p.), 12 March 1795 - 10 April 1801

Includes:Log of Duke of Clarence in Straits of Malacca bound to New Guinea (2p.) Details of: Course; wind; weather; remarks - islands sighted.

Log of Ternate from Amboyna to Ternate, Banda to Amboyna. Details of: Course; wind; weather; remarks - duties of crew, weather, sails set; locations of islands; attack on Ternate Island (12 February).

Log of Star from Amboyna to Ternate. Details of: Course; wind; weather; remarks - loading stores and troops at Amboyna.

[Very faint in places]

Subseries LOG/C/79. [James Sheriff?]. Log on board Lord Holland to East Indies and back to St. Helena, October 1775 - May 1777

Details of: Course; winds; weather; remarks - weather, position of islands, shoals etc.; punishments of soldiers and crew; crews' duties; private trading in East Indies; other ships in harbour - including French, Swedish and Dutch.

Places visited include: St. Helena; Bencoolin; Pulo Timoan; Whampoa; Nanka Islands; Sumatra; Krakatoa; Table Bay.

(322p.)

Subseries LOG/F/2. Duslos Legris. Journal du voyage fait dans L'Inde sur le v. Le Marengo pendant les annes 11, 12, 13 et 14 de le Republique, 1803 - 1806

Journal of voyage to East Indies.

Includes: Remarks on Batavia, watercolour drawings including Bencoolen and track chart.

(150f.)

Subseries LOG/M/5. Midshipman Ralph Galilee Huggup. Log of Clarence, London to Melbourne and return, November 1870 - July 1871

Details of: Course; wind; weather; remarks - weather, sails set, duties on board, signalling other ships; other ships at Sandridge; two members of crew deserted at Melbourne; passengers taken on - carpenter fits extra mess tables in Second Class cabin.

(222p.)

Subseries LOG/M/6. Midshipman Ralph Galilee Huggup. Log of Clarence, London to Melbourne and return, September 1871 - May 1872

Details of: Passengers and ship's company; course; wind; weather; remarks -duties on board, weather, sails set, signalling other ships; suicide of Mrs Sutherland, Third Class passenger; met with Russian ship Imatra - all crew laid up with scurvy, Captain sends over provisions and two men to sail ship to Falmouth.

(233p.)

Subseries LOG/M/9. J.B. Hodgson. Log of City of Poonah, London to Port Phillip, Sydney to Calcutta, June 1852 - March 1853

Details of: Course; wind; remarks - weather, embarkation of passengers, duties on board, signalling other vessels, setting sails; met with French vessel Loire demasted in hurricane - sent over masts and sails and received turtles in exchange.

Includes: List of ship's crew, including those who left at Sydney.

(106p.)

Subseries LOG/M/25. Second Mate William Lock. Log of Kelso, 1849 - 1855

Details of: Mutiny west of Sandwich Islands while ship was en route San Francisco to Hong Kong, 17 August 1850; July 1849 leaving New Zealand for Hong Kong; voyage Singapore to Aracan, 1850-1851 - course, wind, weather; Aracan to Singapore, 1851; Singapore to Hong Kong, 1851; fire destroyed Kelso at Calcutta, 1852; voyage to Port Philip from Liverpool in Nelson, June 1852 - January 1853.

Includes personal papers of William Lock, including Mariners Register Ticket.

(102p.)

Subseries LOG/M/27. Oscar W. Lin. Log of Quilpue, Liverpool to Melbourne to Callao, May 1905 - December 1905

Details of: Course; wind; weather; remarks - weather, sails set, duties on board, signalling other vessels; dressing ship for Trafalgar Day; loading wheat in Melbourne; holiday for Melbourne Cup Day; voyage to Callao.

(98p.)

Subseries LOG/M/33. Midshipman C.R. Longden. Log of Carlisle Castle on four voyages London to Melbourne and return, April 1880 - May 1884

Details of: Position; course; wind; weather; remarks - weather, sails set, sighting of other ships, duties on board; death and burial of Mr Gibson, First Class passenger on second outward voyage; cargo carried on third homeward voyage (wool, wheat, bark, etc.).

Includes: Lists of crew and passengers; sketches of Carlisle Castle and other ships.

Includes:

At end of volume, list of voyages made, 1st, 1880 - 157th, 1919.

Details of: his rank, ship and destinations.

(226p.)

Subseries LOG/M/63. James Watters, Mate. Log of Alsager, from Gunape Islands to Melbourne to South Pacific Islands, May 1872 - March 1873

Details of: Course; wind; crew on look out; remarks - weather, crew's duties, sails set; seaman lost overboard after fall from cross-jack yard; anchorage in Hobson's Bay; visits from Peruvian consul; R.G. Rae takes command; list of crew; sailing to Island of Malden; eclipse of sun (30 November 1872); ship damaged on berthing at Malden Island, unloaded stores for the Island, took on guano from Malden Island Company; leaving Malden Island for Hamburg (5 February 1873); on 18 February find ship making water - eight inches per hour; pumping every hour but still making water; 26 February 'it is now coming to a close with us. We will not be able to keep her long at this rate as this is something terrible '; crew getting exhausted at pump; 28 February 'no log the 24 hours because we cannot attend to it. My arms is now swollen up very much and very sore with pumping'; crew want to cease pumping - Steward refuses to pump; Captain hopes to reach Tonga Tahue; 3 March 1873 Captain orders boats to be got ready, 2nd Mate left the ship without permission; other crew members in mutinous condition and holes made in ship's side; 3 March crew take to boats; J.W. makes land on island of Tonga Tabu on 5 March 1873.

(190p.)

Subseries LOG/M/66. Anonymous. Log of Parramatta, London to Sydney and return, September 1866 - May 1867

Abstract log giving details of position; distance run and note that G. Hancock drowned on 15 February.

Includes: Lists of passengers and crew.

(7p.)

Subseries LOG/N/1/2. Admiral R. A. Allenby. Log of H.M.S. Achilles, Nelson and Espiegle, May 1882 - August 1885

Details of: Course; position; wind and weather; barometer and thermometer; separate remark sequence including details of duties; movements of other ships; Divine Service; courts martial; exercises; visits by V.I.P.s; delivery mails, Norfolk Island; proclamation ceremonies at New Guinea; voyage back to England.

Places visited include: Sydney; Norfolk Island; Fiji; New Hebrides; Hobart; New Guinea; Singapore; Batavia.

Includes: Track chart.

Chart showing tracks of P and O S.S. Parramatta, H.M.S. Nelson, and Espiegle 1883-1885 [at back].

(148p.)

Subseries LOG/N/C/4. Midshipman F. H. Boyer. Log of H.M.S. Clio, November 1870 - November 1873

Details of: Wind; weather; remarks - sails set, ship board duties, visits by V.I.P.s to ship, movements of other ships in Squadron.