Item 1: Log of the Proceedings of His Majestys Ship Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, (to take t...
Item 1: Log of the Proceedings of His Majestys Ship Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, (to take t...
Item 1: Log of the Proceedings of His Majestys Ship Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, (to take the Breadfruit plant from the Society Islands to the West Indies) under the Command of Lieutenant William Bligh
About this item
Full title
Date
1 December 1787-22 October 1788
Call Numbers
Safe 1/46
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Formats
Physical Description
Contents
1 volume of textual material (387 pp.) - bound in vellum, marbled endpapers, manuscript
1 map - pencil, ink
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Item
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright
Please acknowledge: : State Library of New South Wales
Issue Copy
Digitised
Finding aids
Read the transcription here: http://archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D20256/a7884.pdf
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Scope and Contents
Contents
Personal log in Bligh's hand recording the voyage from England to Otaheite (Tahiti), beginning with the initial attempt to leave Spithead on 1 December 1787. Records the failure to round Cape Horn owing to gales (17 April 1788); descriptions of ports of call - Tenerife (6-11 January 1788), Capetown (22 May-1 July 1788) and Adventure Bay in Van Diem...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Item 1: Log of the Proceedings of His Majestys Ship Bounty in a Voyage to the South Seas, (to take the Breadfruit plant from the Society Islands to the West Indies) under the Command of Lieutenant William Bligh
Notes
General note
Microfilm copy available at CY 247.
Digital order no:Album ID : 1025664
Signature / Inscriptions
'Bounty's Log' in Bligh's hand on spine.
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by William Russell Bligh, 29 October 1902.
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
Safe 1/46
Record Identifier
9qoQM4J1
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9qoQM4J1
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Reference code
1025647
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