Ships' logs.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Daily records of the progress of a ship at sea, with notes on the weather and important incidents of the voyage.
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
Abstract of log of HMS Wellesley., 1837-1838.
Item
Identifier: Dep.353/10
Accounts and miscellaneous papers concerning the ‘Royal Charlotte’., 1797-1826.
File
Identifier: MS.9645
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows:
(i) Pay-bills, 1816, 1818-1820. Those for 1816 are for Thomas Robertson's salary only. (Folio 1.)
(ii) Boatswain's, carpenter's, and gunner's demands and accounts, 1816-1820. (Folio 21.)
(iii) Lists of defects to be made good, 1817-1819 (Folio 62.)
(iv) Certificates of pilotage, 1817-1820. (Folio 74.)
(v) Miscellaneous accounts and papers, 1804, 1815-1820, including a leaf from a log-book, a record of ships boarded, and abstracts of wages and beer-money. (Folio...
Dates:
1797-1826.
Album of photographs taken during 'A summer cruise in the Arctic Regions' by the ship ‘Erik’., 1876.
Item
Identifier: MS.9505
Scope and Contents
The album also contains a "Sketch of the Erik's Log . . . May 2 to Oct 30 1876" (folio 17).The album was presented to George L M Gibbs in 1877 by the (unidentified) gunner of the ship, who presumably compiled it. Excerpts from the 1871 log of the ‘Erik’ were published by R W Gray in an article entitled 'The Peterhead whalers' [no. XII] in the ‘Buchan observer’, 12 March 1929 (MS.9504, folio 77). The ‘Erik’, which was at that time a Dundee ship, was subsequently owned by Gray's...
Dates:
1876.
Contemporary log of the voyage of the ‘Experiment’ from India to North West America, 1785-1786, with further comments and additions made by Alexander Walker circa 1817., 1785-[circa 1817].
Item
Identifier: MS.13779
Scope and Contents
The volume may have been intended for publication as an appendix to, or the later chapters of, MS.13778: 'Account of a voyage to the North West coast of America...’.
Dates:
1785-[circa 1817].
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Brigadier-General Alexander Walker.
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Papers of and collected by Alexander Walker for proposed publications.
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Various versions of, and other material probably intended as a section of, ‘Voyage to America’ by Alexander Walker.
Deck logs and Day's Works., 1842-1847.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.2481-2484
Dates:
1842-1847.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior., 1850-1892.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.9004-9040
Dates:
1850-1892.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
Journal, 17 March-31 July 1757, of H.M.S. 'Orford', part of the fleet in which Lord Charles Hay sailed out to America., 1757.
Item
Identifier: MS.7091
Dates:
1757.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Correspondence and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale.
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Letters and papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale; and papers of Lord Charles Hay.
Log-book of an unnamed East India Company ship., 1778-1779.
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Identifier: MS.14530
Dates:
1778-1779.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Log-books, relating to the service of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale in the East India Company, of the East India ships ‘Bute’, ‘Grenville’, an unnamed ship, and ‘Alfred’,
Log-book of H.M.S. Spartan.
Item
Identifier: MS.21237
Scope and Contents
The log begins on 14 April with the voyage from Port Antonio, Jamaica, to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, thence to Bermuda and on to Halifax, the Saint Lawrence River and Quebec, returning via St John's, Newfoundland, to Spithead, which was reached on 24 August. The ship was commanded by Captain the Honourable (later Admiral of the Fleet Sir) Charles Gilbert John Brydone.
A little more than half of the volume is blank.
Dates:
1845.
Log-book of the East India Company ship ‘Alfred’., 1781-1784.
Item
Identifier: MS.14531
Dates:
1781-1784.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Log-books, relating to the service of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale in the East India Company, of the East India ships ‘Bute’, ‘Grenville’, an unnamed ship, and ‘Alfred’,
Log-book of the East India Company ship ‘Bute’., 1770-1772.
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Identifier: MS.14528
Dates:
1770-1772.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Log-books, relating to the service of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale in the East India Company, of the East India ships ‘Bute’, ‘Grenville’, an unnamed ship, and ‘Alfred’,
Log-book of the East India Company ship ‘Grenville’., 1775-1777.
Item
Identifier: MS.14529
Dates:
1775-1777.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Log-books, relating to the service of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale in the East India Company, of the East India ships ‘Bute’, ‘Grenville’, an unnamed ship, and ‘Alfred’,
Log Book of the ‘Lowgee Family’, of which George Seton was commander, on a voyage from Bombay to London., 1814.
Item
Identifier: MS.19219
Scope and Contents
During the voyage the ship encountered a severe storm off the Cape of Good Hope (folio 23).
Dates:
1814.
Log-books of the East India Company's ships ‘Charles Grant’, ‘Humayoon Shah’, and ‘Cornwall’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9660-9661
Scope and Contents
The log-books belonged to William Richardson, an officer in all three ships, and great-grandfather of the donors.
Dates:
1815-1821.
Log-books, relating to the service of the 7th Marquess of Tweeddale in the East India Company, of the East India ships ‘Bute’, ‘Grenville’, an unnamed ship, and ‘Alfred’, , 1770-1784.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.14528-14531
Log, July 1856, of the yacht 'Midas' kept by Francis G Richards on a voyage off the coast of Maine in which the yachtsman Charles J Paine was involved., 1856
Item
Identifier: MS.20373
Log of H.M.S. 'Guernsey' kept by Lieutenant Lord James Hay, Royal Navy., 1722.
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Identifier: MS.14505
Dates:
1722.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the Hays of Yester formerly preserved at Yester House.
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Papers of individual members of the family of Hay of Yester.
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Papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale.
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Political and miscellaneous papers of the 4th Marquess of Tweeddale, including material concerning Lord James Hay and Lord Charles Hay of Linplum.
Log of H.M.S. 'Surprize', Captain Sir Thomas John Cochrane., 1814-1815.
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Identifier: MS.2452
Dates:
1814-1815.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers, private and official, of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of his son Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Bath.
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Various logbooks, order-books, returns, and other material concerning the naval careers of Sir Alexander Forrester Inglis Cochrane, and of his son Sir Thomas John Cochrane.
Log of the barque 'Emily', including a record of expenses, for a voyage from Leith to San Francisco and South America.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14185
Dates:
1853-1855.
Log of the ‘Cornwall’, a ship of the East India Company., 1818-1821.
File
Identifier: MS.9661
Scope and Contents
In 1819 the ‘Cornwall’ was bought by the East India Company and refitted under the command of Captain William Richardson (a description of the refit is on folio i). She then made several voyages carrying cargo from Bombay to the Persian Gulf and to Mocha in the Yemen. She also took part in Sir William Grant Keir's expedition of 1819 to suppress pirates in the Persian Gulf, and the log describes the siege of Ras al-Khaima. In 1821 she carried troops for Sir Lionel Smith's campaign against the...
Dates:
1818-1821.
Log of the ship 'Wandsworth', Captain: George Dunlop, sailing between Port Glasgow and Quebec.
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Identifier: MS.342
Dates:
1867-1869.
Log of the ‘Solent Queen’, recording a pleasure cruise down the Ganges from Allahabad to Howial in 1895., 1895.
Item
Identifier: MS.21222
Dates:
1895.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot Murray Kynynmounds, Earls of Minto, of related families, and of Sir John Coxe Hippisley, whose career was associated with that of the 1st Earl of Minto.
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Papers and correspondence of Sir Charles Elliot, Admiral and Colonial Governor, and his family.
Logbook of Henry Robert Oswald, junior., February-May 1850.
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Identifier: MS.9004
Dates:
February-May 1850.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
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Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior.
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Logbooks describing the passage of Henry Robert Oswald, junior, from London to Bombay, with a day-by-day account of the weather and of the details of shipboard life; and of a journey by steamer from Bombay to Madras in October 1850, where he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the service of the East India Company.
Logbook of Henry Robert Oswald, junior., October 1850-December 1851.
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Identifier: MS.9005
Dates:
October 1850-December 1851.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers and diaries of Henry Robert Oswald (1790-1862), surgeon and physician in Edinburgh and Douglas, Isle of Man; and of his son Henry Robert Oswald, junior (1827-1892), an assistant surgeon in the service of the East India Company, who rose to the position of Surgeon-General of Burma, 1876-1879, and briefly of India, 1879, and who retired to Edinburgh with his family in 1881.
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Diaries of Henry Robert Oswald, junior.
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Logbooks describing the passage of Henry Robert Oswald, junior, from London to Bombay, with a day-by-day account of the weather and of the details of shipboard life; and of a journey by steamer from Bombay to Madras in October 1850, where he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the service of the East India Company.