Log on board His Majesty's sloop Discovery, 28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778, kept by Captain Charles Cle...
Log on board His Majesty's sloop Discovery, 28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778, kept by Captain Charles Cle...
Log on board His Majesty's sloop Discovery, 28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778, kept by Captain Charles Clerke
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Author / Creator
Date
28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778
Call Numbers
SAFE/A 559
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Physical Description
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0.05 metres of textual material (1 volume) - manuscript
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Fonds
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Microfilm : CY 479
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Scope and Contents
Contents
This log book and journal charts Cook's Third Pacific voyage in search for the Northwest Passage, and is numbered from pages 1-344, with some blank pages in between. The logbook begins on 28th March 1776 with remarks on the Resolution, Deptford, Gallions, Long Reach, Plymouth Sound, England to the Cape of Good Hope and Christmas Harbour. It continu...
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Full title
Log on board His Majesty's sloop Discovery, 28 March 1776 - 5 July 1778, kept by Captain Charles Clerke
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Attributions / Conjectures
This appears to be a copy of Clerke's original journal, probably by the ship's clerk, as the handwriting, on comparison with letters of Clerke in the possession of the Mitchell Library SAFE/Banks Papers/Series 11 (Safe 1/457), does not appear to be his. Mitchell Librarians Room -- Taken from label inside cover
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Title from item and label inside cover
Information transferred from Manuscripts Index Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2013-2014
Contextual Information
Source
Presented by A. Potter, January 1922
Administrative / Biographical history
Charles Clerke was enlisted as captain of HMS Discovery and Cook's second-in-command for the third Pacific voyage (1776-1780), on an expedition to search for the North West Passage. Cook departed in HMS Resolution on 13 July 1776. Clerke's departure in HMS Discovery was delayed for three weeks because of his detention for debt in the King's Bench P...
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Call Numbers
SAFE/A 559
Record Identifier
YoldKav9
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YoldKav9
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Reference code
1102927
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