EAST MEETS WEST
Original Records of Western Traders, Travellers, Missionaries and Diplomats to 1852

Part 5: East India Company: Ship's Logs, 1701-1851, from the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Contents of Reels

REEL 1

LOG/C/9

DUNIRA 1824-1825
Logbook kept by George Davey of a voyage to Bombay and China

JOD/159

DUKE OF YORK 1829-1830, 1832-1833
Journal of Thomas Gardiner kept on voyages to Bengal and China

LOG/C/15

UPTON GALLEY 1701-1703
Logbook kept by John Camell, Commander on a voyage to Bengal and back

REEL 2

LOG/C/16

CLEOPATRA 1846-1847

Logbook by William H Carpendale of a voyage to Bombay

AUCKLAND 1847
Logbook by William H Carpendale of a voyage to Bombay

CLIVE 1847
Logbook by William H Carpendale of a voyage from Bombay to Malacca

TAPTEE 1847-1848
Logbook by William H Carpendale of a voyage from Bombay to Belliapain

REEL 3

LOG/C/17

TAPTEE 1848-1849
Logbook by William H Carpendale

HASTINGS 1848
Logbook by William H Carpendale

FEROOZ 1849
Logbook by William H Carpendale

CONSTANCE 1849-1850
Logbook by William H Carpendale

ELPHINSTONE 1851
Logbook by William H Carpendale

AUCKLAND 1851
Logbook by William H Carpendale

LOG/C/18

DOVER CASTLE 1801-1803
Logbook kept by Thomas Hamilton of a voyage to Madras and Bengal and back

REEL 4

LOG/C/19

GENERAL HEWITT 1816-1817
Logbook kept by Colin Campbell, a passenger on his brother’s ship (Captain Walter Campbell) of a voyage from China to England

LOG/C/20

WORCESTER 1795-1797
Logbook kept by Searles Wood, Chief Officer on a voyage to Bengal and Bencoolen and back

REEL 5

LOG/C/21

HORSENDEN 1771-1772
Logbook of a voyage to Madras and China and back

LOG/C/24

INGLIS 1836-1837
Logbook kept by Commander George Wise of a voyage to Bombay and China and back

REEL 6

LOG/C/25

LORD ANSON 1753-1755
Logbook of a voyage to China and back

LOG/C/26

ROYAL ADMIRAL 1794-1795
Logbook of a voyage to Bengal

LOG/C/28

DAVID SCOTT 1802-1803
Logbook kept by Robert Scott of a voyage to Bombay

EARL CORNWALLIS c1803
Logbook kept by Robert Scott of a voyage from Bombay to Calcutta

HERCULES c1804

Logbook kept by Robert Scott of a voyage from Bengal to Bombay

REEL 7

LOG/C/29

LADY FLORA 1834-1835
Logbook kept by L H Tamplin, midshipman of a voyage to Madras and back

LOG/C/32

WALTHAMSTOW 1800-1801
Logbook of a voyage to Madras and China

LOG/C/35

TIGRIS 1836
Logbook kept by Commander William Igglesden of a voyage from Bombay to the Torres Straits and Murray Island and back

REEL 8

LOG/C/41

COLCHESTER 1751-1755
Logbook of a voyage to Bengal and back

REEL 9

LOG/C/48

CASTLE HUNTLY 1822-1823
Logbook kept by Henry Wise, midshipman on the fifth voyage to Bombay and China and back with a list of the ship’s company, troops and passengers (Captain Henry Andrew Drummond)

LOG/C/49

CASTLE HUNTLY 1826-1827
Logbook kept by Henry Wise, 3rd Officer on a voyage to Madras and China and back (Captain Henry Andrew Drummond)

LOG/C/52

TERNATE 1801
Logbook kept by Lt Robert Scott in the East Indies

STAR 1801
Logbook kept by Lt Robert Scott in the East Indies

DUKE OF CLARENCE 1795
Logbook of a passage through the Straits of Malacca bound for New Guinea

LOG/C/53

JEHANGER 1805
Logbook kept by Robert Scott as a passenger on a voyage from Bombay to Bushire

FORBES 1806
Logbook kept by Robert Scott as a passenger on a voyage from Bombay to Bengal

REEL 10

LOG/C/55

SWALLOW 1791-1792
Logbook kept by Captain William Selby on a voyage from Madras to Dover

SCORPION 1793-1794
Logbook kept by Captain William Selby on a voyage from Madras to England

LOG/C/57

PROTECTOR 1827-1828
Logbooks kept by William Tattersall, Acting 3rd Officer on voyages from London to Madras, Calcutta to Madras and Madras to London

LOG/C/58

EARL BALCARRAS 1835-1837
Logbook kept by Richard Binks, purser on a voyage to Batavia and China, together with copies of estimates for rigging, sails, painting and plumbing

REEL 11

LOG/C/64

CIRENCESTER 1801-1803
Logbook kept by Charles Thomas Bincombe, midshipman on the fourth voyage to Madras and China and back

LOG/C/66

CHARLES GRANT 1834-1835
Logbook kept by Francis Lambert, midshipman on a voyage to China and back

LOG/C/67

WOODFORD 1790-1792
Logbook kept by Peter Potter, midshipman on a voyage to China and back

REEL 12

LOG/C/70

REPULSE 1822-1832
Logbooks kept by Christopher Hill, midshipman and later 4th Officer of five voyages to China (Whampoa)

REEL 13

LOG/C/73

ROYAL ADMIRAL 1778-1780
Logbook of a voyage from St Helena to Bombay

ROYAL ADMIRAL 1782-1783
The first part of a logbook of another voyage

LOG/C/74

ROYAL ADMIRAL 1783-1786
Logbook of a voyage from England to St Helena to Bombay and Malabar to the China Seas and back to England

REEL 14

LOG/C/75

ROYAL ADMIRAL 1784-1786
Logbook

LOG/C/76

ROYAL ADMIRAL 1783-1786
Letterbook of Captain Joseph Huddart

LOG/C/77

WHAMPOA 1844-1845
Logbook of a voyage from Madeira to Demerara, back to London and back to Demerara

BORDERER 1845
Logbook of a voyage from Demerara to London

BORDERER 1845-1847
Logbook of a voyage to China and back

BORDERER 1847
Logbook of a voyage to Demerara and back

REEL 15

LOG/C/78

BESBOROUGH 1777-1778
Logbook kept by Arthur Stanhope of a voyage from Portsmouth to the East Indies

LOG/C/79

LORD HOLLAND 1776-1777
Logbook kept possibly by James Shirriff of a voyage from Spithead to St Helena, Sumatra and back to St Helena

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