Henry Thompson journals of voyages between England and Australia on Barque Ceres and Barque Aden, 18...
Henry Thompson journals of voyages between England and Australia on Barque Ceres and Barque Aden, 1841-1844
About this item
Full title
Date
1841-1844
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9944
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
0.21 metres of textual material, including 7 drawings (1 box) - manuscript, pencil, ink
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Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Copyright status : In copyright
Research & study copies allowed : Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Two illustrated journals compiled by English merchant seaman Henry (Harry)Thompson, accounting various voyages to Australia in 1842-44 and back to England in 1844. Includes eyewitness accounts of the Battle of the Bogue, First Opium War, February 1841, his survival of the wreck of the Viscount Melbourne on the Luconia Shoals in the South China Sea...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Henry Thompson journals of voyages between England and Australia on Barque Ceres and Barque Aden, 1841-1844
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart Fine Books, Victoria, 17 November 2016.
Collection history
From Lodge & Thomas in the UK, 2016.
Administrative / Biographical history
Henry (Harry) Thompson was an apprentice navigator on the Viscount Melbourne, a merchant ship that was wrecked in the South China Sea in 1842. In 1843-44, he sailed to Australia on the merchant ship Aden returning to England in the same year.
Reference:
Library correspondence file
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 9944
Record Identifier
94RXo7Z1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/94RXo7Z1
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Reference code
1007930
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