Journal from the voyage of the HMS Comet from Sydney to Pitcairn Island, captained by Alexander Sand...
Journal from the voyage of the HMS Comet from Sydney to Pitcairn Island, captained by Alexander Sand...
Journal from the voyage of the HMS Comet from Sydney to Pitcairn Island, captained by Alexander Sandilands, Royal Navy, 1830-1831
About this item
Full title
Date
1830-1831
Call Numbers
MLMSS 8104/Box 1X
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Formats
Manuscripts and Drawings
Physical Description
Contents
1 box of textual material
Other Descriptions
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
Issue Copy
Digitised
Finding aids
Read the transcription here: http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D18145/a6952.htm
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
This private journal, contains a description of the ships’ stopover at the Bay of Islands and includes accounts of the Maoris and the missionary station there. On arrival at Pitcairn Island, the writer records that initially only half the inhabitants accepted the offer of relocation to Tahiti, with the other agreeing only after some negotiation. He...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Journal from the voyage of the HMS Comet from Sydney to Pitcairn Island, captained by Alexander Sandilands, Royal Navy, 1830-1831
Notes
General note
Digital order no:Album ID : 1012408
Signature / Inscriptions
The pen and wash 'Sketch of the island of Pitcairn taken onboard the H.M.S. Comet on the 28th February 1831' is signed J.B.B.
Attributions / Conjectures
Initially believed to be the private journal of Alexander Sandilands, captain of H.M.S. Comet, however comparison with microfilm copies of the ships log in Sandilands' hand together with differences in spelling of various names and places suggests that the journal is in a different hand.
In an attempt to identify the writer of the journal a...
Contextual Information
Source
Purchased from Peter Arnold antiquarian booksellers, 11 August 2011
Administrative / Biographical history
Under the command of Captain Alexander Sandlilands RN, the Comet departed Sydney on 27 December 1830, in the company of the Government barque Lucy Ann, to relocate some of the island’s inhabitants to Tahiti. The relocation was a response to concerns, initially raised by John Adams – the ‘leader’ of the Pitcairn Island community – that the island co...
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
MLMSS 8104/Box 1X
Record Identifier
9NaA2eKY
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9NaA2eKY
Other Identifiers
Reference code
945945
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