Princess Charlotte : Journal [‎18r] (41/368)

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Journal of the voyage of the Princess Charlotte from England to Madras, Bengal, Bombay, and Mocha, and back (Captain Charles Elton Prescott), 6 January 1798-5 November 1800: left Portsmouth, 24 March 1798; 30 May 1798, Cape of Good Hope; 18 August 1798, Madras; 26 September 1798, Calcutta; 14 December 1798, Sauger [Saugor]; 31 January 1799, Goa; 19 February 1799, Bombay; 1 May 1799, Mocha; 7 May 1799, Babelmandel [Bab el Mandeb]; 2 June 1799, Mocha; 16 June 1799, Babelmandel; 31 July 1799, Mocha; 18 September 1799, Bombay; 25 November 1799, Diamond Harbour; 5 January 1800, Saugor; 25 April 1800, Cape of Good Hope; 7 June 1800, St Helena; 23 September 1800, Downs.

The ship was at Mocha (three times) and Bab el Mandeb (twice) from 1 May to 25 August 1799.

Inscribed: 'This is my original Journal, C Elton Prescott' (folio 1).

Marked 'Received 1 October 1800' (folio 1), relating to folios 1-177 (to 27 September 1800), and '2 Sheets Reced 10 Novr. 1800' (folio 178), relating to folios 178-181 (28 September-5 November 1800).

The Journal contains daily entries in six columns: H [Hour], Courses, K [Knots], F [Fathoms], Winds etc., and Remarks (with a column also for courses and bearings for parts of the voyage). When the ship is at anchor, the entries consist of remarks only ('harbour logs'). The Journal records navigational information; weather; contact with other East India Company ships as part of a fleet, and in harbour; contact with country ships; contact with His Majesty's ships, in convoy and elsewhere; sightings of other vessels, punishments inflicted on crewmembers and soldiers; the cleaning and maintenance of the ship; the provisioning of the ship, a birth at sea; deaths at sea; the delivery of the Company's cargo; private trade; and general remarks.

The Journal also includes the following supplementary papers: list of officers and seamen etc. on board the Princess Charlotte , giving number, date when entered, names, stations, and date dead, run or discharged (folios 2-3); Journal entry for 21 November 1799 (folio 4); list of officers, soldiers, women, etc. embarked by order of Rear Admiral Rainier from the ship Thetis on board the Honourable Company's armed ship Princess Charlotte at sea, 8 February 1799, and disembarked at Bombay, 20 February 1799, giving numbers, and names and rank etc. (folios 6-7); list of officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, of HM 84th Regiment of Foot, embarked aboard the Princess Charlotte at Bombay, 2 April 1799, and disembarked at Babelmandel [Bab el Mandeb] Island, 8 May 1799, giving number, and names and rank etc. (folio 7); list of the Honourable Company's Artillery embarked on board the Princess Charlotte at Bombay, 2 April 1799, and disembarked 9 May 1799 at Babelmandel Island, giving number, and names and rank etc. (folios 7-8); list of passengers from England for India, giving number, date embarked, names etc., and date disembarked (folio 10); list of the Honourable Company's Artillery passengers for Bengal (including women and children), giving number, date embarked, names, and date disembarked (folio 10); list of detachment of His Majesty's 12th Regiment of Foot, passengers for Madras, giving number, date embarked, names etc., and date disembarked (folios 10-11); list of detachment of HM troops, passengers for Madras, received on board at Simeon's Bay [Simon's Town], Cape of Good Hope, giving number, date embarked, names etc., and date disembarked (folio 11); and list of passengers from Bengal homeward bound, embarked 23 January 1800, went on shore at Dover, 23 September 1800 (folio 11).

The record is part of a volume containing four separate log books: Princess Charlotte : Journal, 1796-97 (IOR/L/MAR/B/245A); Princess Charlotte : Journal, 1798-1800 (IOR/L/MAR/B/245B); Princess Charlotte : Journal, 1801-03 (IOR/L/MAR/B/245C); Princess Charlotte : Deck Log, 1819-20 (IOR/L/MAR/B/245D).

Extent and format

1 file (181 folios)

Arrangement

The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1, and terminates at f 181; it is part of a larger physical volume of different shelfmarks in which every shelfmark has been given its own separate foliation sequence, i.e. non-consecutive; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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English in Latin script

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