THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY SERVICE

This is the Journal & Log of the Honourable East India Company Packet Ship, the Georgiana on her station at St Helena 1803-1807. Commanded by Captain Henry Leigh.

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THE JOURNAL AND SHIP'S LOG

OF THE HON. COMPANY'S SHIP

GEORGIANA

(BLACKWALL, LONDON, ENGLAND)

Written by The Commander, Captain Henry Leigh

Voyage to St Helena and stationed there

7 July 1803 - 25 April 1807

(British Library Ref: L / Mar / B / 156E-F.)

Extracted by
Bryant G. Bayliffe & Julian A. Rawes
2022


Contents


The HEICS


Company Flag 1600-1707

East India House, Leadenhall Street, London, 1796-1861
from Trade in the Eastern Seas 1793-1813.

Company Flag 1707-1808

Company Flag 1801-1858

The Honourable Company was granted a Royal Charter by Elizabeth I on 31st December 1600 and until its closure in 1858 had amassed a vast archive. The Library of the Honourable East India Company Service is housed in the British Library in Euston, London. The HEICS library contains many thousands of records including hundreds of ships’ journals, logs, ledgers & pay books. They are contained in large ledgers, the journals & logs in one tome with the ledgers and pay books in September 1804.arate books. A catalogue of these records was published in 1999 by the British Library, titled ‘Catalogue of East India Company Ships’ Journals and Logs 1600-1834’ and edited by Anthony Farrington. Most of these records have not been microfilmed. If a copy is required then a microfilm copy is made at the expense of the purchaser to whom a photostat or CD is given. A useful site for the explanation on the HEICS library is: www.barnettmaritime.co.uk/mainheic.htm.

HEICS ships would leave from and return to London using a number of stopping points both in the Thames estuary and the south coast. Passengers would more than likely embark and disembark at these stopping points. The first and major point was at Gravesend or more exactly Longreach. This was a priority for the larger vessels which would on occasion have their guns removed to lighten the ship before proceeding up the river to Deptford or Blackwall for the East India docks.


Map of the Thames estuary indicating some of the navigational points mentioned in the journals.


Until the opening of the East India Docks at Blackwall in 1806, Company ships moored on the tidal river alongside the Royal shipyards at Deptford. Deptford was the anchorage at the start of the Port of London. The ships moored alongside lines of moorings called tiers and all goods were offloaded on to lighters, hoys or barges and carried by them to wharves on shore or further up river.

Deptford from the South London Guide


1806 - the new East India docks at Blackwall
from Trade in the Eastern Seas 1793-1813.


Circa 1830 - East India docks at Blackwall
from WWW.British-History.ac.uk.

A major embarkation point for passengers and soldiers in particular was at Motherbank close to Culver Cliff and Spithead near Portsmouth. This was also where, in times of war, a Royal Navy escort would join the annual fleet. The Isle of Wight, with its healthy climate, assumed some importance to the Company, Newport, Cowes, Ryde, St Helens and Carisbrooke attracted Company officials and the Isle itself acted as a granary with production of malt, salt, flour, poultry and biscuit. A number of HEIC ships officers both came from and retired to the Isle. The naval docks at Portsmouth was close to hand for exchange of ships, crew information etc. For the Isle of Wight's connection with the Company see: http://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/2010s/Vol_68/Thomas.pdf

Most Company ships were used as troop carriers for soldiers needed in India and the Far East. These were mostly regiments created for and employed by the Company to serve in India. One of the Company's training depots was opened at Newport in the Isle of Wight in 1801. This was superceeded by the Brompton Barracks at Chatham in 1815. Recuitment lists are held in the British Library under Ref: IOR/L/MIL/9/1-106, L/MIL/9/1-28, 1817-1860, L/MIL/9/29-84 for military depots, 1801-1861. and L/MIL/9/85-106 for embarkation lists, 1753-1861. References from: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=742726.0.


Hoys & Lighters
Ships logs often mention these little craft, usually with names attached, such as Baring Hoy or Coromandel Hoy, names which often relate to ships of the same name, or perhaps firms trading with the Honourable Company.

A hoy was a shallow bottomed manoeuvrable sloop-rigged vessel ideally suited to an estuarine or coastal environment. Lighters were flat-bottomed and usually manpowered by single long oars called sweeps. Hoys, lighters and similar craft were essential for ferrying cargo and passengers between ship and port. The Thames still sees lightermen and their barges albeit powered. See under Wikipedia for more on these important vessels.


Packet ships
Log entries occasionally mention the term Packet. This refers to medium-sized ships that ploughed the seas between ports, usually on a regular basis and either owned or hired by the Company to carry post, passengers and cargo. They acted as the arteries of the Company and Empire helping to keep the flow of communication constant, An example was the Georgiana, a Company packet built by Wells of London circa 1795, a three-masted vessel, length 95ft and 285 tons. She sailed to Bengal four times and to South Africa twice and was stationed at St Helena for over three years, where she sailed between South America and South Africa, probably keeping a watchful eye on passing traffic. Others would have been based throughout the British world of influence. America also relied upon them at their ports and on the Mississippi.


Every attempt has been made to produce a faithful 'abridged' copy of the Journal and Log Book. A glossary along with explanatory notes has been added to help the reader to understand the transcript along with information of other ships and people noted in the Journal. It is realised that errors are possible owing to the difficulty of transcription. The Editor's notes can be found throughout set within square brackets.


Journals and Log Books,
as well as Ledgers, Payment Books, Absence Books, Imprest books, Receipts &c.

The following can be divided into two types of document, Journals sometimes called Deck or Dock Logs), Logs were created during the voyage by Officers on board ship to record every day events; Ledgers, Pay Books, Absence Books and Imprest Books were created by Company Officials based in London, and dealt with payments to the crew. In the Journal of the Wexford the 1st and 2nd Officers sign the daily entries on behalf of the Captain.

Journal & Log Book
A journal is a generic term for logs that covers any document that logs events. It is a fascinating record of day-to-day events on board ship such as location, weather, repairs, washing decks, including the gun deck where the crew slept, discipline, loading and unloading, embarking and disembarking and external events. The Journal records everyone on board, their positions and status whether or not they left ship or perished, including passengers. There is also a distinction between the 'Harbour Journal' and the 'Sea Log'. The ledger starts as large blank pages given to the Commander, Purser or other Officers at the commencement of each voyage. The journal and log was dutifully created by the Commander or assigned officers and the resulting document, signed by the Commander and handed in at the end of the voyage. It was the duty of the ship's Purser to deposit the ship's journals etc. at Company headquarters.

A fascinating survival is a printed form found in the front of the Journal for the Company ship Wexford 1803-4. It is a detailed description of the duties that the Captain and senior officers have to perform in regard to recording the ship's progress and every day events.


Printed form dating to 1803 from
the Journal of the Wexford 1803-4

Duplicate logs written on HEICS forms still survive in private hands as in the case of the Warren Hastings in 1825-6 and the Repulse in 1831-32. These have the appearance of being soiled and original as opposed to the rather clean copies handed in to India House. It is not known how many of these copies were kept on a particular voyage or are still extant but their survival must be rare. The keeping of copy journals by midshipmen and junior officers was probably encouraged for training purposes. On a rare occasion such as with the 1822/3 voyage of the ship 'London' to Madras and China, the Captains, the 3rd mate's, a midshipman's and another journal was lodged at Company Headquarters.

Under normal voyages Farrington's Catalogue of East India Company ships' Journals and Logs, usually lists a Journal (and Log Book), a Ledger and a Payment Book. There are occasions however, such as when the voyage of a ship is cut short, the Ledger and Payment Book are often replaced by that of an Absence Book and an Imprest Book. With that of the voyage of the Asia 1780-1783 however there is a surviving Journal, Ledger, Pay Book as well as an Imprest Book and Receipt Book. There does appear to be a direct correlation between the loss of a ship and the Absence, Imprest and Receipt books confirming that these were records based at Company Headquarters and never went to sea with the ship.

Absence Book
The Absence Book was an internal document used by Company Officials to keep a track on interim and final payments relating to individual members of the crew and was often accompanied by an Imprest Book. The Absence Book is as its name implies, an account of payments made to a representative of the crew member concerned such as a wife, mother, relative or friend. An example being Thomas Ainsley Cook, Boatswain on board the Ganges 1805-1807. In the Imprest Book he signed a receipt for £7 on 7th February 1805, presumably when or shortly after he entered service. In the Absence Book, while Thomas was at sea, Mary Cooke, presumably a relative, signed for and received £3.10 on 13th October 1805, "being one month absent". she again received interim payments of £3.10 on 15th April 1806, 15th October 1806 & 15th April 1807. He died at Bombay on 3rd February 1807. The Absence Book of the Ganges, which we have transcribed, is a volume containing payment forms, dealing with one crew member per page. Each page carries six printed receipt forms, usually only partially filled in.

Deck Log
Is a form of a Journal and Log Book.

Imprest Book
An Imprest Book, sometimes accompanied by an Absence or Receipt Book, is similar to a Pay Book but is a listing of payments made to the Crew member upon being hired. A more familiar term is the enforced 'pressing' or pressed used by the Royal Navy to hire seaman by force, hence the term 'Press Gang'. In our sense it is usually an advance payment to the hired seaman. Imprest records appear to survive when a voyage for whatever reason, whether shipwreck or otherwise, had been cut short. The money was often released by increment, sometimes after a considerable period, to either the crew member or his representative, which could be a member of his family. For more information see the Journal of the ship Ganges under the transcription of its Imprest Book.

Ledger
The following is based upon the transcribed Ledger of the ship Juliana. This is a book originally of blank forms prefaced by index pages. The index is arranged in alphabetical manner on pages divided in two so that columns for names beginning with A B appear on the first page. The forms are arranged two per page and are set out as per the following image.

The ledger is only partially filled, probably because the Juliana was only in service for two voyages. The first entry begins on 2nd May 1810 with image 16, with a voyage under Captain Toussaint to Bengal. The voyage under Captain Rawes begins with image 136. The last entry is on 24th September 1813, after the completion of a voyage under Captain Rawes from Batavia. There are blank pages both between the two voyages and after.

There are two forms per crew member, including the captain, and they are spread across two pages therefore when one opens the ledger there are two pages one and so on. Form one gives wages and deductions while the second form gives length of service and the amount received per month. There are usually two crew members on each two page. Each form can have two or more entries as they represent both salary and expenses covering the voyage.

Payment Book
Often accompanying a Ledger, the Payment Book is a book of printed receipts filled in and signed, either by the crew member or his assignee, depending on whether he was unable to sign or deceased etc. Each receipt is numbered which refers one back to the Ledger. There are four receipts per page. There is an image of the Ledger in the Journal & Log of the Juliana.

Receipt Book
A receipt Book is a Company document and is believed to be similar to a payment Book and often all there is left when a ship is lost with no surviving journal and log book. On another occasion a ship remained in India and there is only a Receipt Book and an Imprest Book, while on another occasion it accompanies a Ledger and Pay Book.


Georgiana


The Swallow From Wikipedia.
Seen from a distance the Georgiana would have look similar.

She was built by W. Richards, Hythe, Southampton, owner St Barbe & Co. and launched 15th August 1791. She was sold to the HEICS circa 1794, measured and surveyed by Wells. Her dimensions are recorded by Farrington as having three decks, length 94ft and 285 tons. She sailed six times to Madras, Bengal and had two long periods as a packet ship based at St Helena until 1810 and then sold circa 1812. The next owner was Samuel Enderby & Sons who used her as a whaler in the South Seas under Captain W. Pitt. On 29th April 1813 she was captured in the Pacific by the frigate USS Essex. She served them in the Pacific capturing other British whalers in a number of engagements. On 13th March 1813 the Georgiana was captured by HMS Barrosa which sent her to Bermuda. On 13th March 1814 she returned to England with 3,000 barrels of whale oil under Captain B. Boyes. On 24th February 1818 she was sailing from Antwerp to the River Plate and put into Funchal in Madeira in a leaky condition where she was surveyed, condemned and sold for scrap. See Wikipedia from which this information was derived.


Example of a page from this Journal.
Friday June 15th April 1804.

Farrington extract for this voyage:-
The extract from Catalogue of East India Company Ships’ Journals and Logs 1600-1834, edited by Anthony Farrington:-

GEORGIANA: Company's packet, [measured and surveyed by Wells, 3 decks, length 94ft 8in, keel 74ft 5in, breadth 26ft 10in, hold 11ft 11in, wing transom 16ft 8in, between decks 5ft 10½in, 285 tons.

4 1803/4 St Helena and Cape
L/MAR/B/156E-F Journal 7 Jul 1803-25 April 1807
L/MAR/B/156N-(1) Ledger
L/MAR/B/156N-(2) Pay Book
Capt Henry Leigh
Portsmouth 28 Aug 1803 - 23 November St Helena 5 February 1804 - 10 February St Helena - 14 November -
18 November St Helena 7 February 1805 - 27 February St Helena - 12 Jun Benguella - 29 Jun St Helena
4 October Benguella - 1 November St Helena - 8 April 1806 St Helena - 11 May False Bay - 26 May Cape -
2 Jun Simons Bay - 24 Aug St Helena - 17 October River Plate - 24 November Cape - 14 January 1807 St Helena -
15 April Blackwall.


What the Papers Said

Has not been researched.


The Convoy

Honourable East India Company Service ships, were generally well armed and capable of holding their own against single adversaries. The Journals often mention the cleaning of guns and drills taking place. However, especially in times of war, Company ships would set sail in convoy, accompanied by a Royal Navy ship with the captain described as a commodore. During the long voyage there would be a fair amount of 'watching out', both for each other and for 'strangers'. If a stranger was not identified quickly then the Royal Navy ship would peel off and give chase. Royal Navy ships would not necessarily be any larger than merchant ships, which had to provide space for cargo but they were specifically prepared and better armed with their crew trained for war. A convoy would not remain fixed as there would be ships, both HEICS, Royal Navy ships and others leaving or joining. This would be especially the case when the convoy reached its port of destination. Seasonal weather patterns such as prevailing winds would play a part in when ships or convoys would leave England. January to July seems to have been the favoured time to set sail for the Far East.

Orders of Sailing and Defence
Bound in the volume containing the Journal and Log of the Indiaman True Briton, are five pages containing illustrations giving the name, position and vignettes of the individual ships in the Convoy, both outward-bound and inward-bound. Also included is an attractive array of identifying pendants, which the ships had to fly for identification purposes. It appears that ship carried a collection of assorted flags which they stored in a 'colour-chest'.

Please refer to the section on 'Illustrations' within the page dealing with the True Briton for a fuller understanding of their function.


List of Ships noted in this journal.

Every journal contains sightings of other craft, whether in passing, in a convoy, or in or near to a port. There was a good reason for this in that, before the age of telecommunication, it helped to keep record of ships encountered. These sightings were entered in to the journal on a daily basis. There is also the occasional mention of Royal Navy ships in the crew lists where crew have been pressed. Sometimes there is just one note of a passing ship, other times, especially in a convoy, the particular vessel is mentioned on a number of occasions.

Encounters Page:
is a list of all ships encountered in the transcripts we have done so far. Additional details of these ships have been added by the Editors from a number of sources. The main sources for the HCS ships and for their commanders come from Farrington: Catalogue of East India Company's Ships' Journals. Another site used is: eicships.threedecks.org, a useful source for 'country' ships. Information on HM ships comes from the website: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~pbtyc/18-1900/C/01156.html, and there is also the Internet, mostly Wikipedia.

Only the first sighting in the Journal has been recorded, unless there is a particular event that is thought worthwhile recording. Therefore it is worthwhile searching this journal for other references to a particular ship. Please click:-

~ Encounters ~.


Contents of Ship's Log


Log Pages Description Date

3-7 Crew, passengers and Soldiers lists


8-11 Harbour Log 7th July - 19th August 1803

12 Sea Log 20th August - 21st August 1803

13 Harbour Log - Mother Bank 22nd August - 28th August 1803

15-58 Sea Log 29th August - 23rd November 1803

58-63 Harbour Log St Helena 24th November 1803 - 5th February 1804

64-65 Sea Log cruise off St Helena 6th February - 10th February 1804

66-86 Harbour Log St Helena 11th February - 14th November 1804

86-87 Sea Log St Helena 15th November - 17th November 1804

88-93 Harbour Log St Helena 18th November 1804 - 30 January 1805

93-104 Sea Log off ST Helena 31 January - 27 February 1905

104-111 Harbour Log St Helena 28th February - 21st May 1805

112-122 Sea Log towards Benguella 22nd May - 12th June 1805

123-123 Harbour Log at Benguella 13th June - 20th June 1805

124-127 Sea Log towards St Helena 21st June - 29th June 1805

128-133 Harbour Log at St Helena 30th June - 14th September 1805

134-143 Sea Log towards Benguella 15th September - 4th October 1805

143-144 Harbour Log at Benguella 5th October - 21st October 1805

145-150 Sea Log towards St Helena 22nd October - 31st October 1805

150-164 Harbour Log at St Helena 1st November 1805 - 11th April 1806

165-179 Sea Log towards Cape of Good Hope 12th April - 11th May 1806

180-189 Harbour Log at the Cape 12th May - 4th August 1806

189-198 Sea Log towards St Helena 5th August - 24th August 1806

199-201 Harbour Log at St Helena 25th August - 17th September 1806

201-216 Sea Log towards Buenos Ayres 18th September - 17th October 1806

216-235 Sea Log towards Cape of Good Hope 18th October - 24th November 1806

235-239 Sea Log at Cape Town 25th November 1806 - 1st January 1807

239-245 Sea Log towards St Helena 2nd January - 14th January 1807

246-148 Harbour Log at St Helena 15th January - 1st February 1807

249-285 Sea Log towards England 2nd February - 12th April 1807

286-288 Harbour Log off Isle of Wight 13th April - 25th April 1807


Journal & Log:

[Page 001:]


First page of journal and an example
of Captain Leigh's handwriting.

Part the first

Received 22 April 1807

This is my original Journal part the first
H Leigh [signed]
Witness: C Collingwood

[on piece of paper stuck on] Henry Leigh July 7th 1803

[Stamp] 1803 7 156 E

[Page 002:]

[blank page except stamp] India Office


[Page 003:]

List of the Ships Company of the H.E.I. Georgiana 1803, 4, 5, 6, & 7.


NO. NAMES STATIONS WHEN & WHERE SHIP'D DIED, RUN or Discharged [PLUS NOTES]
1 Henry Leigh Commander London 1803 Discharged 28 April 1807. [Henry Leigh was bap on 23 January 1774 in St Mary's Lambeth, Surrey, son of Samuel & Frances; seaman Warren Hastings (1) 1789/90; midshipman Hindostan (1) 1792/3; 4th mate Earl Howe 1794/5; home as passenger Airly Castle; Captain Georgiana (1) 1798/9, 1800/1, 1803/4, 1807/8 & 1809/10.]
2 Mr Thos Harton Chief Mate London 1803 Discharged 28 April 1807. [Thomas Harton, born 11 February 1777 Weybridge, Surrey; midshipman Swallow (3) 1794/5; midshipman Georgiana (1) 1798; 3rd mate Georgiana (1) 1800/1; 1st mate Georgiana (1) 1803/4, 1807/8 & 1809/10.]
3 Mr James Harrington Second Mate London 1803 Discharged 28 April 1807. [James Harrington, born 20 October & bap 26 October 1777 St James's Piccadilly, London, son of James & Elizabeth; midshipman Worcester (4) 1797/8; 6th mate Coutts 1799/1800; 4th mate Britannia (4) 1801/2; 2nd mate Georgiana (1) 1803/4 & 1807/8; died 21 March 1814 in France. He married On 8 August 1807 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, Frances Matilda Carolina Kerry, of Lambeth and had issue: Henry George, private baptism 26 June 1808.]
4 Mr R W Davis Third Mate London 1803 Made prisoner 20th October 1806. [Richard Woolcot Davis, born 18th September 1804. 1783 Bridgwater, Somerset; seaman in Hudson's Bay service 2y; midshipman Cirencester 1799/1800 & 1801/2; 3rd mate Georgiana (1) 1803/4, imprisoned at Buenos Aires 20 October 1806, home as master Two Sisters from Montevideo; 2nd mate Asia (4) 1807/8; 2nd mate Penang 1810.]
5 Mr Robert Crout Surgeon London 1803 Discharged 14th March 1806 [Robert Crout, surgeon Dover Castle 1797/8; Earl of Huntingdon 1799/1800; Georgiana (1) 1803/4; Bombay Assistant Surgeon 20 January 1806; Surgeon 28 February 1815; died 16 June 1817 St Helena.]
6 Daniel Crouder Boatswain London 1803 Discharged April 21st 1807.
7 Thos Harrison Gunner London 1803 Discharged 31st Decr 1805.
8 John Friend Carpenter London 1803 Entd on board H.M.S. Trident July 10th 1805.
9 Joh Griffith Ships Steward & Cooper St Helena Decr 1803 Entd on board H.M.S. Trident July 10th 1805.
10 Mr Thos Seacole Midshipman London 1803 Sent on board H.M.S. Calcutta August 2nd 1805. Made Acting 3rd Mate October 22nd 1806, sworn in at St Helena Jany 26th 1807. [Thomas Fowler Seacole, born 19 July 1787 & bap 21 August 1788 St Mary's Whitechapel, London, son of Thomas & Ann, of Prescot St; 3rd mate Georgiana (1) 1807/8 & 1809/10; 2nd mate Juliana 1811/2; 2nd mate Thomas Greville 1813/14; 2nd mate Alexander (3) 1815/6.]
11 Mr John Hughes Midshipman London 1803 Sent on board H.M.S. Calcutta August 2nd 1805. [On 1st August 1805 he was confined in irons for drunken and mutinous behaviour on the quarter deck.]
12 John Ford Quarter Master London 1803 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
13 George Daws Quarter Master London 1803 Entr on board H.M.S. Centurion January 8th 1805.
14 Thos Green Capt's Steward London 1803 Discharged 14th March 1806.
15 John Slater Cook London 1803 Discharged 31st January 1807.
16 John Seers Carpenters Mate London 1803 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
17 Michael Smith Seaman London 1803 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
18 Edward Thomas Seaman London 1803 Entd on board H.M.S. Trident July 9th 1805.
19 William Walters Seaman London 1803 Entd on board H.M.S. Centurion January 8th 1805.
20 Stephen Church Seaman London 1803 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
21 John Mackay Seaman London 1803 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
22 William Wicker Seaman London 1803 Discharged 23rd July 1804.
23 William Mathews Seaman London 1803 Entd on board H.M.S. Centurion January 8th 1805.
24 Martin Emery Seaman London 1803 Run September 8th 1805.
25 Thos Collins Seaman London 1803 Made Quarter Master 14 January 1806. Discharged London 16 April 1807.
26 John Thompson Seaman London 1803 Made Quater Master 14 January 1805. Made gunner 14 January 1806. Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
27 Hugh Simmonds Seaman London 1803 Discharged April 25: 1807.
28 Thos Sheppard Seaman London 1803 Entd on board H.M.S. Trident July 9th 1805.
29 Epherim Weedon Seaman London 1803 Discharged April 25: 1807.
30 Richard Chambers Seaman London 1803 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
31 Richard Hughes Seaman London 1803 Entd on board H.M.S. Adamant January 6th 1806.
32 Thomas Throsby Seaman London 1803 Pressed April 14th 1807.
33 James Greenslade Seaman London 1803 Pressed April 14th 1807.
34 John Atkinson Ordinary seaman London 1803 Discharged April 25th 1807.
35 Joh Wheatley Ordinary seaman London 1803 Discharged 14th June 1804.
36 Thomas Gibbs Ordinary seaman London 1803 Made seaman 14th June 1804. Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
37 James Clark Seaman Downs 17th August 1803 Made prisoner October 20th 1806.
38 Robert Stevenson Seaman Downs 17th August 1803 Made prisoner October 20th 1806.
39 John Stymets Seaman St Helena 4th April 1804 Entered on board H.M.S. Centurion January 6th 1805.
40 James Jennings Seaman St Helena 16 June 1804 Discharged 13th September 1805.
41 Thomas Smith Seaman St Helena 14 January 1805 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
42 John Nicholson Seaman St Helena 14 January 1805 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
43 Michael Kelly Ordinary seaman St Helena 14 May 1805 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
44 Robt Waite Ships Steward & Cooper St Helena July 10th 1805 from H.M.S. Trident Discharged April 25 1807.
45 Mr Thos Maguire Midshipman St Helena August 9th 1805 Discharged October 21st 1805. [Cannot trace this officer in Farrington.]

[Page 004:]

List of the Ships Company Continued.


46 Josh Johnson Seaman St Helena August 5th 1805 Discharged 28th December 1806.
47 Pierce Foley Seaman St Helena September 9th 1805 Run at the Cape 31st July 1806.
48 Wm Smith Seaman St Helena September 14th 1805 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
49 Thos Davies Seaman St Helena September 14th 1805 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
50 Joh Hillatt Seaman St Helena November 27th 1805 Pressed April 9th 1807. [by H.M.S. Sampson].
51 James Rennie Surgeon St Helena March 14th 1806 Discharged April 1807. [James Rennie, surgeon Travers 1803/4; transferred to Georgiana 14th March 1806.]
52 Robt Dixon Seaman St Helena March 14th 1806 Discharged April 1807. [Boarded at St Helena 14th March 1806.]
53 Richard Allen Seaman St Helena September 5th 1806 Discharged April 1807.
54 Nicholas Le Pelley Midshipman St Helena September 15: 1806 Discharged April 1807.
55 John Gibeaux Ordinary seaman Cape December 2: 1806 Pressed April 12th 1807.
-- John Long --- Discharged at St Helena 14th November 1805 [Not in the crew or passenger lists but stated on 14th November 1805 as 'Discharged John Long not being a seaman'.]
-- Richard Colley Wellesley [Passenger on board HMS Howe] [Landed at St Helena 14th November 1805.] [He was the Marquis of Wellesley and a passenger on board the Howe and was the brother of the Duke of Wellington.]
-- Frederick North [Passenger on board the Baring] [Landed at St Helena 3rd December 1805.] [He was the Governor of Ceylon and a passenger on board the Baring.]
-- Mr Fullerton [Passenger on board the Baring] [Killed at Helena 10th January 1806.] [He was an officer of the 11th Light Dragoons, a passenger on board the Baring who was attached by a shark.]
-- Captain Hall [Passenger on board the Delaignes] [Died at St Helena on 11th March 1806.]

Bombay Marine Boys Apprentices to the Honble Company
Delivered up as Deserters from the H. C. ships Elphinstone & Essex.
.


1 Charles Freestone Boy St Helena November 27th 1804 Made Prisoner October 20th 1806.
2 John Hanborough Boy St Helena November 27th 1804 Pressed April 12th 1807.
3 Charles Welch Boy St Helena December 2nd 1804 Pressed April 12th 1807.
4 Wm Carter Boy St Helena November 27th 1804 Run January 11th 1805.
5 Thomas Kimes Boy St Helena December 5th 1804 Made Prisoner October 20th 1806.

[Page 005:]

List of Passengers in the H.I.S. Georgiana ye years 1803,4,5,6 & 7.


NO. NAMES SITUATIONS WHEN RECEIVED WHERE DELIVERED plus notes
1 Master Solr Aresto
London August 12th 1803 St Helena November 28th 1803.
2 Wm Larboard Servant Deal August 18th 1803 St Helena November 28th 1803.
3 James Assistant in purchasing cattle St Helena May 22nd 1805 St Helena June 30th 1805.
4 -------- Two French Prisoners of war, two Men and one Woman belonging to H.M.S. Adamant Table Bay Cape of Good Hope May 29th 1806 Simons Bay, to H.M.S. ship Adamant June 3rd & 4th 1806.
5 -------- One Man H.M. B. Rolla Table Bay Cape of Good Hope May 29th 1806 H.M. Brig Rolla June 3rd [1806].
6 Lieut. Col. Borland 38th Regt Infantry Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope August 3rd 1806 St Helena August 24th 1806.
7 Mr T Roach Gent. Simons Bay, Cape of Good Hope August 3rd 1806
8 Mr Robt Thompson Gent. St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
9 Captain Le Pelley Captain late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
10 Mr John Champion Chief Officer late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 London 15th April 1807.
11 Mr Charles Hoeguard 2nd Officer late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
12 Mr John Simonds Carpenter late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
13 Peter Mountain Seaman late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
14 Nichl Torode Seaman late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
15 John Torode Seaman late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
16 James Gordon Seaman late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
17 John White Seaman late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
18 Charles Turner Seaman late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
19 John Miller Seaman late of the Brig Jolly Tar St Helena 15th September 1806 Cape of Good Hope 29th November 1806.
20 John Gibeaux Apprentice St Helena 15th September 1806 Entered as ordinary seaman on the ship December 2nd 1806.
21 John De Garis Apprentice St Helena 15th September 1806 London April 15th 1807.
22 Captain John Aldred 60 Regt Foot Cape of Good Hope January 1st 1807 St Helena 14th January 1807. [John Williams Aldred]
23 Mr Caleb Mortimer 2nd Mate late of H.M.S. Europe St Helena February 1st 1807 Downs 12th April 1807.
24 John Callender Servant of Mr Caleb Mortimer St Helena February 1st 1807 Downs 12th April 1807.

Discharged Soldiers from the Garrison of St Helena. .


1 John Johnson Sergeant St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
2 Wm Hughes Sergeant St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
3 Andries Manning Matross St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
4 Jeremiah Dobar Matross St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
5 John Bennett Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
6 Joh Gregory Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
7 John Windwood Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
8 Thos Lester Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
9 Robert Cliffe Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
10 John Cook Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
11 John Peters Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
12 Nicholas Dardes Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.
13 Saml Haydon Private St Helena January 31st 1807 London 16th April 1807.

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List of Marines on Board doing duty at Sundry times..


NO. NAMES STATIONS
1 John Nightingale Sergeant
2 Benjn Jefferson Corporal
3 Wm Bales Private
4 Wm Jackson Private
5 John Sheppard Private
6 Martin Constantine Private
7 Thos Carwood Private
8 James Stroud Private
9 Mathew Junningham Private
10 Jas Pastingo Private
11 John Sweeney Private
12 Fras Fagan Private
13 Thos Fenning Private
14 Fras Decharjus Drummer
Came on Board May 20th 1805
Sent on shore June 30th 1805
NO. NAMES STATIONS
1 Fras Barrett Sergeant
2 Owen Owens Corporal
3 Thos Hall Private
4 Wm Hoppinshaw Private
5 Thos Sommers Private
6 John McIntosh Private
7 John Harford Private
8 Merrick Jooney Private
9 Wm Usherwood Private
10 Wm Walsh Private
11 Wm Smith Private
12 George Woolen Private
13 Jas Stroud Private
14 Fras Decharjus Drummer
Came on Board September 13th 1805
Sent on shore November 3rd 1805


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Harbour Log

Honble Company's Packet Georgiana at Deptford

Thursday 7th July 1803.
Easterly winds & fair weather. AM. Mr Kinsham, Inspector & Mr Lea Surveyor Boarded the ship. Received 45 Tons of Kentedge, Riggers & Sumpers as Necessary, Draft of Water. For:10.6, Aft:12. Ye officers on board.

Friday 8th July 1803.
Ditto winds & weather, Received 10 chaldron of coals & 44 water butts. Employed as needful draft F:11.6, Aft:12.3. 1st officer [on board].

Saturday 9th July 1803.
First part westerly winds & hard rain, middle & latter fair. Received 35 fms of wood and 3 cables draft F:12.6, A:12. 1st & 2nd officers on board.

Sunday 10th July 1803.
Westerly winds and fair weather.

Monday 11th July 1803.
Light airs and fair weather. Received Sundry stores, employed B. as needful.

Tuesday 12th July 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed receiving the store cordage &c. F:13, A:12.2.

Wednesday 13th July 1803.
Winds & weather as days past. Received the Wet Provisions & the sundry small stores.

Thursday 14th July 1803.
First part fair, middle & latter cloudy. Employed setting up the rigging &c. Draft F:14.4, A:11.8.

Friday 15th July 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed taken in the guns, sails, cables & anchors. Bent sails do bower cables. Draft F:14.4, A:12.8.

Saturday 16th July 1803.
Winds northerly with fair weather. Employed taken on board billet wood. Received the long boat. Draft F:14.6, A:13.1.

Sunday 17th July 1803.
Ditto wind. At 10am Mr Slaney pilot came on board. At noon cast off & dropped down to Blackwall, at 3PM made fast along side Canton. Captain, 1st & 2nd officers on board.

Monday 18th July 1803.
Southerly winds & fair weather. At 10am Mr Slaney came on board & made the ship fast with small bower Forward to the Marquis of Ely Aft to the West India Dock Buoys. Draft F:14.6, A:13.3. PM I left the ship.

Tuesday 19th July 1803.
Ditto winds & weather Am scraped & cleaned the upper deck, otherwise employed under the boatswain.

Wednesday 20th July 1803.
First part SE winds with fair weather, latter variable with heavy rains accompanied with thunder & lightening. People employed under the boatswain. I visited the ship. Draft F:14.6, A:13.3.

Thursday 21st July 1803.
SE winds with unsettled weather. At 11 Mr Slaney pilot came on board & at ½past 1PM cast off. Wharped & worked down to Galleons, came to about 6PM with the best bower in. fms Myself and all the officers on board.

Friday 22nd July 1803.
Variable light airs throughout. At day light weighed & made signal likewise towed with our launch & the pilots launch. At ½past 8 am came to & moored in Northfleet Hope ½ a cable each way. Down top gallant yards & masts. At noon I left the ship.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana at Gravesend.

Saturday 23rd July 1803.
Fine pleasant weather. People usefully employed about the rigging & up top gallant masts and set the rigging up 1st & 3rd officers on board.

Sunday 24th July 1803.
Variable winds with rain at intervals. Cleaned ship.

Monday 25th July 1803.
Ditto winds with fair weather. Employed in the hold clearing away for Company's cargo otherwise upon the rigging. Received sundry stores. Draft F:14.10, A:12.10. All the officers on board.

Tuesday 26th July 1803.
Easterly winds and fair weather. Employed as yesterday.

Wednesday 27th July 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed as before. 1st & 3rd officers on board.

Thursday 28th July 1803.
Ditto winds with fog. Received sundry stores. Employed in ye hold and upon the rigging. Draft F:15., A:12.10. 1st & 3rd officer on board.

Friday 29th July 1803.
South westerly winds with rain. At noon came alongside the Woodford hoy with wet provisions on account of the Honble Co. Employed clearing her, & stowing it away. Draft F:15.10, A:13.

Saturday 30th July 1803.
Ditto winds with drizzling rain in the first part, latter fair. Employed as yesterday. Draft F:15.10, A:14:2. 2nd & 3rd officers on board.

Sunday 31st July 1803.
Easterly winds & fair weather. Cleaned ship & loosed sails to dry. I visited the ship. PM passed up H.C. packet Swallow. Passed down H.M. ship Colossus of 74 guns. 2nd & 3rd officers.

Monday 1st August 1803.
South westerly winds and fair weather. Employed clearing the George hoy of wet provisions. On receipt of the Honble Company and stowing the hold, swifted in the main rigging. Draft of water F:15.10, A:14.7. 2nd & 3rd officers on board.

Tuesday 2nd August 1803.
Southerly winds & fair weather. AM Discharged the George hoy. Roused up the main cable, cleaned the decks and payed it down again. Passed up the Ruby Country ship at Bengal. Draft of water F:15.10, A:15.2. 2nd & 3rd officers on board.

Wednesday 3rd August 1803.
First part winds & weather as yesterday, latter squally with rain. Employed getting ready for sea bent the main sail mizzen & top gallant sails. PM Mr Sanden from the India House came on board and surveyed the ship in consequence of our not be able to take in all the Company sent down. I visited the ship and sleep on board. Draft water F:15.9, A:15.4. 2nd officer on board.

Thursday 4th August 1803.
Southerly winds & fair weather. AM Employed clearing the Surat hoy of store for Captain Leigh otherwise on the rigging at 8AM I left the ship. Draft F:15.10, A:15.3. 2nd officer on board.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana at Gravesend.

Friday 5th August 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed in the hold & ratlin down the rigging with Petersburgh made ratlin the sun [sun rope] being condemned. Cleared a hoy with cordage ships stores. Plumbers fixing the metallic pump. Draft F:15.4, A:10.1. 2nd officer on board.

Saturday 6th August 1803.
Southerly winds & squally for the first part middle & latter fair. Employed paying down the cables into the hold otherwise under the boatswain. Draft F:15.8, A:15.6. 2nd officer on board.

Sunday 7th August 1803.
Southerly winds & fair weather. Employed cleaning the ship. I visited the ship. 1st officer on board.

Monday 8th August 1803.
Ditto winds & fair weather. AM Hoisted in the launch & booms otherwise under the boatswain. Draft F:16., A:15.6ft. 1st & 2nd officers on board.

Tuesday 9th August 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. People under the boatswain about the rigging. 4 shipwrights employed fixing the propeller. Draft F:16.4, A:15.4. 1st & 3rd officers on board.

Wednesday 10th August 1803.
Ditto wind & weather. People as yesterday. All officers on board.

Thursday 11th August 1803.
Ditto winds and cloudy weather. AM Roused up the cables clinched & served them & paid them down again otherwise as necessary. AM sailed hence the Admiral Aplin for India. All officers on board.

Friday 12th August 1803.
Winds & weather as days past. Employed upon the rigging and otherwise as necessary. PM I joined the ship for good. All officers on board.

Saturday 13th August 1803.
Northerly winds and fair weather. At 5AM Mr Blyth pilot came on board and took charge of the ship at ½ past 10 AM unmoored. At 4PM weighed and run down to the lower part of Gravesend Reach. At 5 Anchored with the best bower. Discharged two men. Draft water F:16.1, 15.7.

Sunday 14th August 1803.
Easterly winds & fair weather. AM Mr Coulson from the India House came on board and paid the ship's company. Discharged 4 men.

Monday 15th August 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. At day light weighed & worked down to the Lower Hope. At 6AM came too with the best bower. At 1PM weighed and worked down with the Ebb. At ¼ past 6PM grounded upon the middle ground off South End at dead low water; got off about 7PM as soon as the flood made without receiving any damage. Came too with the best bower in 4½ fms.

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H C Packet Georgiana towards Portsmouth

Tuesday 16th August 1803.
Easterly winds and fine weather. At 1AM weighed and worked down with the Ebb. At 7 anchored in 5½ fms the East buoy of the Ouse Ebb distance a large ½ mile. A little before 1PM weighed. At ¼ before 2 crossed the flats least water 6½ fms. At 3 run through the Queens Channel, a little after 4 rounded the North Foreland. At 5PM run aground upon the east edge of the Brake Sand. At 6AM Ramsgate Boat came and carried our best bower Anchor to the eastward and let it go in 8 fms water. Hove taught across it down top gallant yards & struck the masts stacked 5 butts of water. At 8PM the flood making she floated and swung to her anchor. At ½ past 10 weighed and run into the Downs accompanied by the H.C. yachts Swift & Deliverance. At midnight anchored in 8½ fms. Bearings when aground North Foreland NEbN. S° STP[?] SWbS Buoy of the Brake SW½S Ramsgate Pier NbE¾E Deal Mile WbS½S distance 8 or 9 miles.

Wednesday 17th August 1803.
Winds & weather as days past. People employed as necessary. Bearings South Foreland SSW Deal Mile WNW Walmer Castle SWbW distance off shore a large ½ mile.

Thursday 18th August 1803.
Easterly winds & fair weather. Completed our water that was started when aground. People otherwise employed [as] necessary.

Friday 19th August 1803.
First part heavy breezes Northerly middle & latter moderate. People under the boatswain. NB. This Log contains 12 hours to commence.

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[Start of Sea Log]

Saturday 20th August 1803.
C&D WbS 57. At 2PM received Convoy Instructions H.M. Cutter Swallow Capt: Rowe. At 4 weighed & made sail. At ½ past 4 rounded the South Foreland. At 5 passed Dover. At sun set South Foreland NEbN high land of Folkston NbE. Dungeness Lights W½S distance off shore 5 or 6 leagues NNW Commodore NW 1 mile. At 9 abreast of Dungeness Light. At midnight do ENE distance off shore 7 or 8 miles.

AM At daylight Beachey Head NW. 17 fms. High land of Fairsleigh NNE distance about 5 leagues. At 8 Beachey Head NEbE 6 or 7 leagues. extreme of the land at NEbE to NbW. At noon Beachey Head NNE extreme of ye land at NEbE to NWb-. Lat about 50: 42N.

Sunday 21st August 1803.
C&D ----. Strong breezes for the most part & fair weather. PM At 2 Beachey Head EbN At 4 SNS. At midnight the Owners Light NW distance 5 miles. AM At day light Dunnose NWbW distance about 5 miles. At light Culver Cliff W½ or sea mark. At noon anchored on the Mother Bank & moored ship. Bearings Upper Town of Ryde SSW Portsmouth Harbour NE. Extreme point of Cowes WbN½N South Sea Castle ENE distance off shore 1½ mile. At 2PM Captain Corner & Mr McGuire from the S.H came on board & sounds the pump &c in consequence of our having been aground upon the Brastle Sand. NB: This Log contains 36 hours.

[End of Sea Log]

[Start of Harbour Log]

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H. C. Packet Georgiana at the Mother Bank

Monday 22nd August 1803.
Light airs & Calms with fine weather. At 8AM Captain Corner and Mr McGuire came on board and swept the ship's bottom - did not find anything material the matter. Employed 2 men to dive under the ship who reported nothing whatever was the matter with her bottom. Pumped every 24 hours & found she made about ½inch per hour. I went on board H.M.S. Romney Captain Browne & received Convoy instructions from him, in consequence of his calling along side of me the day before for that purpose & his shewing me part of his Admiralty orders to that effect. At 6PM Captain Corner &c. left the ship.

Tuesday 23rd August 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Set the rigging up fore & aft otherwise as necessary.

Wednesday 24th August 1803.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Employed filling up our water & getting ready for sea. PM wrote to Captain Brown to say I could not proceed unless I received my orders from the India House during the night.

Thursday 25th August 1803.
Easterly winds & fair weather. Employed getting ready for sea. Received a few gunners & carpenters stores. AM received my dispatches from the India House. Wrote to Captain Brown to that effect. PM I joined the ship for good. H.M.S. Romney made the sign to go to St Helen. NB: the ship makes rather less water.

Friday 26th August 1803.
First part strong breezes at ye NE with thick weather. Middle & latter Moderate & fair. At day light unmoored and hove into 1/3 of a cable. At ½ past noon weighed & stood out to St Helens. At ½ past 3PM came too and anchored with the best bower in 10fms otherwise employed as necessary.

Saturday 27th August 1803.
Light airs variable with fine weather. People employed under the boatswain. Admiral Aplin joined the Convoy.

[The small convoy amounted to: Royal Navy: HMS Admiral Aplin, HMS Romney, Company: Georgiana whalers: Betsey Ferret, Harriot, Star.]

Sunday 28th August 1803.
Variable winds with fine weather. At day light sign to unmoor. At 9AM to weigh. Weighed & lay too as did all the Convoy. At noon made sail. NB This Log contains only 12 hours to commence.

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[Start of Sea Log]

At St Helena

Monday 29th August 1803.
C&D ----- 25 miles. First & middle parts light airs & calms, latter strong breezes. The pilot & Mr Lea, Company's Inspector left the ship. At 4PM Dunmore WbN Culver Cliff NWbW 5 or 6 miles. At 6 Dunmore WbN Culver Cliff NbW ½N. At 8 Dunmore W½N distance 5 leagues. AM At 6 St Catherines Point NE½E distance off shore 6 or 7 leagues. At 8 the Extreme of the land to ye North NWbN. St Catherines Point NEbN. At 10 the Extreme of the Wight at -bN to NNW. At noon the Needles Point NEbE. Lat:50.31N Long:------W.

Tuesday 30th August 1803.
C&D ----- 57 miles. Light airs variable throughout. At 4PM The Needles NEbE St Aldans [Aldhelms] Head NbE distance off shore 6 or 7 leagues. At 6 PM St Catherines Point SEbE, The Needles Point NEbE St Aldans Head N½E. At sunset the -ts of the land at NN to EbS St Aldans Head & distance off shore 6 or 7 leagues. At 8PM The Needles Lights EbN. Rain, taken aback NWbN 1 mile. Lat:Needles N Long:-----W.

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H.C.S. Georgiana

Wednesday 31st August 1803.
C&D S53W 156. Strong breeze throughout. At sunset Berry Head WNW distance 6 leagues. AM At ¼ past 3 AM saw the Lizard Lights bearing NNW distance off shore 6 or 7 leagues. People employed under the boatswain. I take my departure from the Lizard allow it to lay 49°:57N 5°:14W 156 miles. Lat:49.21N Long:6.36W.

Thursday 1st September 1803.
C&D S45W 132. First & latter parts strong breeze, latter moderate & fair throughout. AM People employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat:47.41N Long:8.44W.

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Towards St Helena

Friday 2nd September 1803.
C&D S53W 136. Fresh breezes and cloudy weather. AM At 2 a cutter passed through the Fleet commander hove too & spoke [to] her. People under the boatswain. Got the sheet anchor in unstacked it and put it upon the main hatchway. Gunner painting the guns. Lat:46.22N Long:11.14W.

Saturday 3rd September 1803.
C&D S54W 168. Strong breeze & cloudy weather. Carried away the larboard fore top mast steering small boom. AM cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat:44.53N Long:13.18W.

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H.C.S. Georgiana

Sunday 4th September 1803.
C&D S47W 172. Strong breezes and a following sea. AM The weather too squally & unsettled to perform divine service. Lat:42.46N Long:14.42W.

Monday 5th September 1803.
C&D S3W 165. Strong breezes throughout with a heavy swell. AM People employed working up junk. At 6 the Commodore spoke a ship passing the fleet. She shewed Danish colours. Lat:39.54N Long:16.26W.

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Towards St Helena

Tuesday 6th September 1803.
C&D S1W 97. Moderate breezes and fair weather. AM People working up junk. Lat:38.9N Long:16.25W.

Wednesday 7th September 1803.
C&D S11W 53. Light airs and fair weather throughout. AM Washed the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat:37.14N Long:16.20W.

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H.C.S. Georgiana

Thursday 8th September 1803.
C&D S15W 142. Pleasant breezes and fair weather. AM People under the boatswain, carpenter caulking the fore part of the 2nd deck butt ends of the brake of 2nd deck which was very rotten. Lat:34.42N Long:16.10W.

Friday 9th September 1803.
C&D S26W 106. Fresh breezes throughout with hazy weather. AM People under the boatswain. At 9 passed under the Commodore's stern within hail for sign he asked my longitude. Lat:32.47N Long:16.53W.

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Towards St Helena

Saturday 10th September 1803.
C&D S43W 102. First part strong breezes, middle & latter light airs variable. AM Cleaned the lower deck & exercise the guns. Carpenter making a top M.S.- boom. Lat:31.33N Long:18.19W.

Sunday 11th September 1803.
C&D S3&W 72. Fines pleasant weather throughout. AM Performed divine service. Lat:30.23N Long:21.37W.

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Georgiana Packet

Monday 12th September 1803.
C&D 39W 90. Light breezes and pleasant weather. AM Swayed the lower yards up higher, shifted main top sail with old one. Quarter master making a curtain for the awning. At 8 The Star whaler left the Fleet and steered to the southward. Lat:29.4N Long:20.11W.

Tuesday 13th September 1803.
C&D S50W 58. Light airs variable and fine pleasant weather. AM People under the boatswain. Lat:28.22N Long:2055W.

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Towards St Helena

Wednesday 14th September 1803.
C&D S36W 28. Light airs and calm throughout with fine weather. AM Cleaned the lower deck and exercised the guns. Lat:27.54N Long:21.23W.

Thursday 15th September 1803.
C&D N84W 66. Moderate breezes and fair weather. AM at ½ past 9 Commander made the signal to come within hail. At 10 heave too, a little past 10 Captain Brown came on board and informed me he was going to part company. At 11 I made the signal for the Convoy to come within hail & gave my signal to the Admiral Aplin & three south whalers. At noon made signal informing with the above ships 5 in number. At noon H.M.S. Romney NEbE distance about 7 miles in chase of a ship to seized. Lat:27.58N Long:24.10W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Friday 16th September 1803.
C&D N67W 44. Fresh breezes throughout with fair weather. AM People under the boatswain, gunner fitting new breechings to the guns. Lat:28.7N Long:23.6W.

Saturday 17th September 1803.
C&D S22E 68. Light airs throughout and fine weather. AM Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat:26.55N Long:22.25W.

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Towards St Helena

Sunday 18th September 1803.
C&D S5W 46. Light airs variable and fine weather. AM Performed divine service. Lat:28.8N Long:22.16W.

Monday 19th September 1803.
C&D S17W 52. An increasing breeze with fine weather. AM People under the boatswain, tradesmen as necessary. Lat:25.16N Long:22.17W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Tuesday 20th September 1803.
C&D S16W 158. An increasing trade & fair weather. AM Made the signal to form the order of sailing. The Admiral Aplin made the sign for leave to set up rigging & answered by the affirmative. People under the boatswain, tradesmen as necessary. Rove a new tiller rope. Lat:22.48N Long:22.59W.

Wednesday 21st September 1803.
C&D S16W 167. Fresh breezes and hazy weather. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise under the boatswain & as necessary. Lat:20.30N Long:23.59W.

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Towards St Helena

Thursday 22nd September 1803.
C&D 40W 13. A pleasant breeze throughout with hazy weather. At 1PM made the signal for the Admiral Aplin longitude, answered 26° 46W our 26° 27W. AM People under the boatswain, set up the mizzen top main rigging. Lat:18.16N Long:24.19W.

Friday 23rd September 1803.
C&D S9W 109. First variable, latter parts steady breezes, middle hard squally & rain. At 4PM Longitude for Admiral Aplin Chronometer 27° 17W; Georgiana from sun 27° 31W. AM At day light the Ferret missing, made the Betsey's signal to come within hail enquiring if she has seen the Ferret since the squall. She informed us she had & no accident appeared to have happened to her. The Betsey then asked permission to part which I of course could not object to as the thought she could get on faster by herself.

[The following crossed out] Note: Do not think the ship Chronometer N.44. a good one, having one of Mr Marger[r]itts N.157, which shews 2° to the westward of it. Lat:16.22N Long:24.28W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Saturday 24th September 1803.
C&D S24E 153. Fresh breezes throughout with pleasant weather. At 6PM The water being very discoloured sounded no ground 80fms. AM Cleaned & scraped the lower deck. Made Admiral Aplin make more sail. Lat:13.59N Long:26.36W.

Sunday 25th September 1803.
C&D S56E 63. First & middle parts hard squalls & rain, latter light airs variable. AM At day light Admiral Aplin hull down to leeward, edged away towards her. do, the Betsey had parted company 2 days back. Got clear for action. At 11 a strange sail in sight in ye NE quarter. At noon the Admiral Aplin -- signal from me, made the strange to be a friend - do - the Betsey that parted company 2 days back. Got clear for action. Bent 2nd best fore top gallant, out reefs & made sail towards the Aplin. Variously employing sails &c. so that could not perform divine service. Lat:13.18N Long:25.42W.

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Towards St Helena

Monday 26th September 1803.
C&D S7W 33. Light airs with hazy weather and a very heavy swell at ye SE. AM Restored the booms woolded the driver boom were sprung. Only the Admiral Aplin in company, the Harriot & Betsey whalers hull down ahead. Lat:12.49N Long:23.11W.

Tuesday 27th September 1803.
C&D S34E 134. First & middle parts fair with steady breezes, latter, squally with rain. AM Employed under the boatswain. Quarter Masters repairing the fore top gallant sail. Lat:11.03 Long:24.29W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Wednesday 28th September 1803.
C&D South 77. Variable winds, squalls with heavy rain for the most part. AM Admiral Aplin in company. Lat:10.10N Long:24.29W.

Thursday 29th September 1803.
C&D S56E 43. Light airs throughout fine part cloudy, middle & latter fair. AM Cleaned as necessary. Lat:9.46N Long:19.8W.

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Towards St Helena

Friday 30th September 1803.
C&D S22E 49. Light airs with squalls & heavy rain at times. Admiral Aplin a long way astern, under our top sails for her. AM Swayed up the lower yards higher. At day light Admiral Aplin about 3' astern with all sail set. Lat:9.00N Long:18.27W.

Saturday 1st October 1803.
C&D S22E 38. Light airs variable with slight squalls & hard rain. AM Cleaned the lower deck. Lat:8.13N Long:17.58W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Sunday 2nd October 1803.
C&D S27E 58. First & middle parts light airs & calm, latter fresh breezes, hard rain most of the night, fair towards noon. PM Tried the currant found it to set WbS 1 mile per hour. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Lat:7.19N Long:17.3W.

Monday 3rd October 1803.
C&D S25E 101. Fresh breezes throughout with squalls & rain and a head sea. PM At 11 the main top gallant broke in the slings, got it down and unbent the sail. AM Watch under the boatswain, carpenter making a main top gallant yard. Gunner cleaning small arms. Lat:5.52N Long:22.05W.

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Towards St Helena

Tuesday 4th October 1803.
C&D S48E 70. Variable winds throughout with squalls & hard rain. At 4PM crossed top gallant yard. At 8PM main top sail tye broke. AM Employed airing steering sail &c. Lat:5.2N Long:21.12W.

Wednesday 5th October 1803.
C&D S62E 42. Light winds with cloudy weather and a swell from ye SE. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed as necessary. Admiral Aplin in close company. Lat:4.43N Long:20.56W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Thursday 6th October 1803.
C&D S55E 38. Fine weather throughout with light airs & calms. PM Made ye signal for longitude Admiral Aplin 18°: 3W DR Georgiana 20°:3W. AM People under the boatswain making matts &c. At ½ past 10 AM saw a strange sail at ye mast head SSE, standing to the eastward. Cleared for action. Tradesmen usefully employed. Lat:4.19N Long:19.50W.

Friday 7th October 1803.
C&D S5E 67. Light variable winds with hazy weather and rain in ye night. PM Made ye signal the stranger was on the starboard K - do for longitude Admiral Aplin 18°W Georgiana per sun & moon 19.50W. Signal for to carefully conceal all lights. AM At day light saw nothing of the stranger. People under the boatswain, carpenter making a spare top gallant yard. At 9 long per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon 19.11.30 west of Greenwich. Lat:3.55N Long:19.20W.

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Towards St Helena

Saturday 8th October 1803.
C&D S24E 47. Light variable winds throughout with heavy rain at times. AM At day light the Admiral Aplin bearing east distance about 3 or 4 miles. Under easy sail for the Admiral Aplin, taken aback. At noon Admiral Aplin south. Lat:3.30N Long:20.19.9W.

Sunday 9th October 1803.
C&D S65W 72. First part light airs and calms latter strong breezes with a great deal of rain at times. AM The weather much to unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat:3.00N Long:20.15W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Monday 10th October 1803.
C&D S59W 93. Fresh breezes throughout with hazy weather. PM At 1 made the signal for ye Admiral Aplin to come within hail, spoke her longitude as 18:° 10W. AM Employed under the boatswain, ship pitches a good deal. Lat:2.54N Long:21.33W.

Tuesday 11th October 1803.
C&D S47W 97. Fresh trade throughout with squalls at times. AM People employed under the boatswain making matts &c. Carpenter making a mizzen top gallant yard. Lat:1.47N Long:21.2W.

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Towards St Helena

Wednesday 12th October 1803.
C&D S48W 60. Fine pleasant weather with a light trade. AM Set up the bobstays and rigging fore & aft. Cleaned the lower deck. Lat:1.4N Long:21.42W.

Thursday 13th October 1803.
C&D S34W 78. Light pleasant trade & fine weather. AM Employed under the boatswain making matts &c. Bent the new large jib. Lat:0.25N Long:22.44W.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Friday 14th October 1803.
C&D S51W 133. Fine brisk trade throughout with squalls at times. Spoke the Admiral Aplin her longitude 22°.24W. PM Performed the usual ceremony on crossing the line. AM Hauled all the new sails up to air otherwise employed trimming ship & under the boatswain. Lat:1.34S Long: 24.42W.

[Crossed the Equator]

Saturday 15th October 1803.
C&D S40W 133. Strong trade throughout with fine weather. AM Employed under the boatswain. Cleaned the lower deck. Lat:3.14S Long:26.30W.

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Towards St Helena

Sunday 16th October 1803.
C&D S30W 134. Fresh trade throughout with fine weather & a heavy swell. AM Performed divine service. Admiral Aplin about 3 [miles] astern. Lat:5.8S Long:27.38W.

Monday 17th October 1803.
C&D S12W 133. Fresh trade throughout with squalls at times. Made the signal to steer south of the wind come fair in the night. AM set up the mizen & mizen top main rigging & stayed the masts. At noon stranger SbE from the main top, standing to ye southward. Made the signal 20' after do with a gun, made sail. Lat:7.17S Long: ----.

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H. C. Packet Georgiana

Tuesday 18th October 1803.
C&D S14N 140. Fine pleasant weather throughout with a heavy head sea. At 5PM the stranger sail SSE. AM People employed working up junk, quarter master altering the old large jib. Carpenter caulking the quarter deck. Gunner filling powder. Lat:9.30S Long:28.43W.

Wednesday 19th October 1803.
C&D S67W 114. Fresh trade with squalls in ye night. Strange sail just in sight at sun set. AM People working up junk, carpenter caulking the quarter deck. Gunner grinding of paint. Quarter master on the jib. Think the ship [h]as been underloged this day. Lat:11.23S Long:29.8W.

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Towards St Helena

Thursday 20th October 1803.
C&D S23W 124. Strong trade throughout with heavy confused swell from the SW. AM People & tradesmen as yesterday. Quarter master fitting the new mizen top sail. Filled 8 butts of salt water to trim ship. Admiral Aplin in close company. Lat:13.39S Long: 29.52W

Friday 21st October 1803.
C&D S17W 114. Fresh breezes and pleasant weather. Unbent the mizen top sail to repair & add 3 foot to the head. Bent the new one. At ¼ past 1PM long per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon 30.26.15,30.20.15, 30.36.45 = mean 30.27.45W. AM People & tradesmen usefully employed. Lat:15.21S Long:30.20W

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Towards St Helena

Saturday 22nd October 1803.
C&D S3E 90. Moderate breezes with squalls & rain at times. At ½ past 1PM Long per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon 31.6W. AM People & tradesmen as days past, cleaned the lower deck. Lat:16.44S Long:30.16W.

Sunday 23rd October 1803.
C&D S5E 74. Light trade throughout with fine pleasant weather. AM Performed divine service. Lat:17.59S Long:30.18W.

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Towards St Helena

Monday 24th October 1803.
C&D S22W 79. Fresh breezes and squally with rain for the most part. AM People knotting yarns &c. Under easy sail for the Admiral Aplin. Lat:19.26S Long:31.9W.

Tuesday 25th October 1803.
C&D S10W 77. Strong breezes with hard squalls and heavy rain. AM Watch picking oakum. Admiral Aplin in close company. Lat:20.44S Long:31.34W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Wednesday 26th October 1803.
C&D S22E 95. Strong breezes throughout with frequent hard squalls and heavy showers of rain. PM Spoke the Admiral Aplin she sent her boat on board us and we parted company. AM At day light the Admiral Aplin not in sight from the mast head. Lat:22.29S Long:31.19.

Thursday 27th October 1803.
C&D S43E 100. Pleasant breezes & fine weather with a heavy swell in ye first part. AM Cleaned the lower deck & otherwise necessarily employed under the boatswain. Lat:23.42S Long:30.17W.

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Towards St Helena

Friday 28th October 1803.
C&D S33E 140. Pleasant breezes throughout & fine weather. AM People employment under the boatswain working up junk, carpenter caulking the waist. Bearings of St Helena N65.47E distance 1534 miles. Lat:25.39S Long:29.8W.

Saturday 29th October 1803.
C&D S56E 116. Moderate breezes with fair weather throughout, latter part a confused swell at ye eastward. AM People under the boatswain working up junk, gunner grinding paint, carpenter caulking the waist. Cleaned the lower deck. Lat:26.47S Long:27.26W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Sunday 30th October 1803.
C&D S40E 96W. Pleasant breezes & fine weather throughout. AM Performed divine service. Lat:28.6S Long:26.3W.

Monday 31st October 1803.
C&D S64E 50. Light breezes and fine weather throughout. AM Set the top mast rigging up & otherwise employed under the boatswain, carpenter caulking the main deck. Gunner grinding paint. Lat:28.30S Long:25.6W.

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Towards St Helena

Tuesday 1st November 1803.
C&D S82E 61. Light breezes and fair weather throughout. AM Employed variously under the boatswain, blacking the rigging, knotting yarns &c. Carpenter & gunner as days past. Shifted mizen top sail with old one. Lat:28.38S Long:23.52W.

Wednesday 2nd November 1803.
C&D N88E 127. First & middle parts light breezes, latter an increasing breeze with cloudy weather. AM Cleaned the lower deck employed tarring down the rigging, gunner painting the bowsprit, carpenter repairing the cutter. Lat:28.34S Long:21.18W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Thursday 3rd November 1803.
C&D N85E 185. Fresh breezes throughout with frequent squalls & rain. Lat:28.20 Long:17.31W.

Friday 4th November 1803.
C&D N83E 181. Strong breezes throughout, rain in the first past, middle & latter fair with squalls at times. AM People working up junk. Tradesmen usefully employed. Bearings of St Helena N35.09E distance 941 miles. Lat:27.57S Long:14.48W.

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Towards St Helena

Saturday 5th November 1803.
C&D N63E 159. First & middle parts strong breezes, latter moderate. AM Cleaned the lower deck, exercised the guns & otherwise as necessary. Bearings of St Helena N29.47S 781 miles. Lat:26.34S Long:12.18W.

Sunday 6th November 1803.
C&D N45E 10. Light airs & calm throughout with rain in the first part. AM Performed divine service. At 9 per mean of 3 sights of the sun, long made 13.49.15W. Lat:26.25S Long:12.11W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Monday 7th November 1803.
C&D N37E 29. Light airs variable throughout with hazy weather. AM People usefully employed under the boatswain. Gunner painting the masts, got the jolly boat in board to repair. Bearing of St Helena N35.17E 738 miles. Lat:25.57S Long:11.47W.

Tuesday 8th November 1803.
C&D N57E 61. Light airs throughout with fine weather. AM People under the boatswain, gunner painting the masts & boats, carpenter as necessary. At 9 long per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon 12.24.10W. Bearings of St Helena N32.5E 719 miles. Lat:25.24S Long:10.43W.

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Towards St Helena

Wednesday 9th November 1803.
C&D N49E 133. A pleasant trade with fine weather throughout. AM People under the boatswain, gunner painting the quarter deck. Got the jolly boat over the stern. Carpenter making a grating for the stern sheets of the cutter. At 10 long per mean of 4 sights of the sun & moon. 10.31.56 west of Greenwich. Bearings N24.29E distance 557 miles. Lat:23.58S Long:9.3W.

Thursday 10th November 1803.
C&D N30E 74. Light breezes variable throughout with rain at times. AM People variously employed, gunner grinding paint. Carpenter as necessary. Lat:22.48S Long.8.29W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Friday 11th November 1803.
C&D N3E 90. An increasing breeze with fine weather for the most part. AM People working up junk, gunner painting the inside of the ship. Bearings of the Island N33.5E distance 411 miles. Lat:21.21S Long:8.24W.

Saturday 12th November 1803.
C&D N11E 90. Fresh breezes and squally weather throughout with rain at times. AM Cleaned the lower deck, otherwise as necessary. Bearings N38.48E distance 324 miles. Lat:20.2S Long:8.6W.

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Towards St Helena

Sunday 13th November 1803.
C&D S57E 31. Fresh breezes throughout with squalls & rain at times & a heavy swell at ye east. AM Blowing too fresh to perform diving service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Bearings N37.1E distance 332 miles. Lat:20.23S Long:7.49W.

Monday 14th November 1803.
C&D N18E 54. Light airs & calms throughout. AM People under the boatswain, roused up the stream cable. Bearings N40.19E distance 278 miles. Lat:19.25S Long:7.33W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Tuesday 15th November 1803.
C&D N18E 51. Light airs with fine pleasant weather. PM Payed the stream cable down into the after cabin. AM People & tradesmen usefully employed. Bearings N47.38E distance 230 miles. Lat:18.38S Long:7.19W.

Wednesday 16th November 1803.
C&D N39E 82. Moderate breezes throughout with fair weather. AM People variously employed as necessary. Mustered the people at their quarters & sealed the guns. Worked the patent rotary metallic pump, found it work extremely heavy. Obliged to spell the people every 3 minutes, pumped out only 7 inches in 25 minutes, 16 hands employed. Cleaned the lower deck. Bearings N54.29E distance 148 miles. Lat:17.28S Long:6.29W.

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Towards St Helena

Thursday 17th November 1803.
Pleasant breezes with cloudy weather. AM Roundup the small bower cable to serve, otherwise as necessary. Bearings N73.13E distance 79 miles. Lat: 16.19S Long:5.45W.

Friday 18th November 1803.
C&D N50E 70. Fresh breezes throughout with dark hazy weather. AM People under the boatswain. Bearings S61E 29 miles. Lat:15.41S Long:4.54W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Saturday 19th November 1803.
C&D S38E 21. Moderate breezes with strong puffs at times and very hazy weather throughout. AM People employed under the boatswain & as necessary. Cleaned the lower deck. Lat:15.57S Long:4.57W.

Sunday 20th November 1803.
C&D S31E 30. First part light airs, middle & latter squally with small rain at times. At½ past 4PM longitude per mean of 5 sights of the sun & moon 6.41.30W. AM The weather to squally & unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat:16.79S Long:4.36W.

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Towards St Helena

Monday 21st November 1803.
C&D 52E 33. Moderate breezes with thick hazy weather throughout. PM At ¼ past 1 longitude per mean of 3 sights 5.11.55 West of Greenwich. AM People under the boatswain. At noon the body of the Island EBS distance about 10 leagues. Longitude per bearings of Island 6.19W Lat:15.54S Long:4.11W.

Tuesday 22nd November 1803.
C&D N78E 35. First part light breezes, middle & latter parts with very thick weather. PM At 4 The Island ESE½E. At sun set extreme at E¼N to EbS distance about 9 or 10 leagues. AM People employed under the boatswain & as necessary. At 5 the Island bearing SEbE½E distance about 5 or 6 leagues. At 8 SEbE 5 leagues. At noon the extreme of the Island at SE¼E to ESE distance 4 or 5 leagues very hazy weather. Longitude bearing of the Island 6.6.W. Lat:15.45S Long.5.12W.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Wednesday 23rd November 1803.
C&D -----. Light variable winds with hazy weather for the most part. AM At day light saw the Island bearing at SSE to S½W distance 4 or 5 leagues. At 10 the Island at S½E to SSW½W distance 3 or 4 leagues. At noon at SbE½E to SSW½W distance 2 or 3 leagues. 2 PM Hove too & hoisted out the cutter, sent her on shore with the 2 officers to report the ship. At ½ past 6PM anchored 13 fms. At 7 ! went on shore & waited upon the Governor with my dispatches. This Log contains 36 hours & ends at midnight. Lat:15.41S Long: ------.

[End of Sea Log]

[Start of Harbour Log]

Thursday 24th November 1803.
At day light moored ship. At sun rise saluted the Fort with 9 guns which was returned with the same number. Bearings when moored. Horse Pasture Point WSW. Buttermill Point EbN½N. Found riding here an English whaler with her two prizes and an American brig from the Cape. Draft of water forward 15F 3I aft 15Ft 8I.

Friday 25th November 1803.
Fine pleasant weather. Employed sending on shore empty water casks & as necessary about the rigging. All the officers on board

Saturday 26th November 1803.
Light airs at 9 SE with fine weather. Employed in the hold & on the rigging.

Sunday 27th November 1803.
Strong breezes at ye SE. Cleaned ship inside & out. Arrived the Hon'ble Company's ships Castle Eden & Walpole from Madras, Lord Clive passenger in the C.S.[Company Service] Likewise arrived the Aurora a French prize to the General Stuart extra Indiaman. Sent part of the ship's company to church.

Monday 28th November 1803.
Light airs & calms, Roused the cables up and sent two bower cables 1 hawser with the sundry cordage & complete suit of sails on shore. Officers all on board.

Tuesday 29th November 1803.
SSE winds with fair weather. Employed in the hold & as necessary.

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At St Helena

Wednesday 30th November 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Landed one boat of provisions. Ordered not to land any today. Surf very high otherwise employed as necessary.

Thursday 1st December 1803.
Winds & weather as days past. Sent two boats of provisions on shore. Tradesmen usefully employed.

Friday 2nd December 1803.
Southerly winds & cloudy weather. Sent two bots of provisions on shore, ordered not to send any more till Tuesday.

Saturday 3rd December 1803.
Ditto winds with thick weather. Employed in the hold & on the rigging, tradesmen as necessary.

Sunday 4th December 1803.
Strong breezes from the SE. AM cleaned ship, sent part of the people to the church.

Monday 5th December 1803.
Ditto winds with fine weather. Received 2 boat loads of water otherwise as necessary.

Tuesday 6th December 1803.

Wednesday 7th December 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent 1 boat of provisions on shore, surf very high. All the officers on board.

Thursday 18th December 1803.
Ditto winds with misty weather. Sent 1 boat of provisions on shore otherwise about the rigging.

Friday 9th December 1803.
Strong breezes at ye southward with cloudy weather. Last of the Hon'ble Co. provisions on shore, ordered to shifted our berth more to the westward & moored in a line with the Indiamen.

Saturday 10th December 1803.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Shifted our birth inner anchor in 9 fms. Orders from the Governor in council for Mr Harrington the 2nd officer to go & superintend the Overhauling of the Ceres cargo a prize whaler.

Sunday 11th December 1803.
Light airs & fine pleasant weather throughout. Cleaned ship. Sent part of the ship company to church.

Monday 12th December 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Set the rigging up fore & aft.

Tuesday 13th December 1803.
Winds & weather as days past. Employed getting ballast otherwise as necessary. Gunner painting the outside of the ship.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Wednesday 14th December 1803.
Strong breezes from the southward with cloudy weather. People employed collecting ballast, gunner as yesterday.

Thursday 15th December 1803.
Moderate breeze & fine weather. AM boat of ballast and 2 boat loads of water. Gunner as days past.

Friday 16th December 1803.
Variable winds & weather. Employed as necessary, the surf runs too high to get off ballast. Gunner painting the cabin.

Saturday 17th December 1803.
Ditto winds & weather, surf very high. Cleaned ship. Tradesmen as necessary.

Sunday 18th December 1803.
Light breezes at the SSE & fine weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. Arrived the Inspector whaler.

Monday 19th December 1803.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People usefully employed. Surf too high to get ballast. Gunner painting the ship.

Tuesday 20th December 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Received one boat of ballast otherwise as necessary.

Wednesday 21st December 1803.
Fine pleasant weather. Employed getting ballast on board.

Thursday 22nd December 1803.
Light airs & calms with fine weather. Employed as yesterday. Arrived the Diana whaler.

Friday 23rd December 1803.
Wind & weather as days past. People employed as usefully. Surf too high to get ballast off.

Saturday 24th December 1803.
Ditto winds & weather. Received some ballast. Payed the cable down into the hold. Cleaned ship. Draft for. 13F.6I Aft 13F 6I.

Sunday 25th December 1803.
Fine pleasant weather throughout with a very high surf. AM Performed divine service.

Monday 26th December 1803.
Light breezes & fine weather. Employed as necessary. Surf as days past.

Tuesday 27th December 1803.
Light winds & fine weather, surf as yesterday. Employed as necessary. Confined in irons Richard Hughes & Thos Sheppard seamen for leaving the boat on Sunday last.

Wednesday 28th December 1803.
Squally weather with small rain at times. Loosed sails to air. Surf as days past.

Thursday 29th December 1803.
Fresh breezes & cloudy weather. Released R. Hughes & T. Sheppard on their promising never to leave the boat again. Surf very high.

Friday 30th December 1803.
SE winds & fine weather. Surf too high to get ballast off. Employed as necessary.

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At St Helena

Saturday 31st December 1803.
Fresh breezes with fine pleasant weather. Surf as yesterday. Cleaned ship inside & out.

Sunday 1st January 1804.
Pleasant weather with strong breezes from the SE. Sent a part of the ship's company to church.

Monday 2nd January 1804.
Ditto winds & weather, surf as days past. Loosed sails to air.

Tuesday 3rd January 1804.
Winds & weather as days past. Not able to get any ballast off owing to the very high surf.

Wednesday 4th January 1804.
First part light airs, middle & latter moderate breeze with fair weather, surf as yesterday.

Thursday 5th January 1804.
Strong breeze with rain at times. People collecting ballast. Confined Martin Emery seaman for leaving the boat. Sailed the Hon'ble Co. ships Castle Eden & Walpole with Lord Clive. Ordered from the Governor to board all ships coming into the roads & birth them.

Friday 6th January 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent the boat for ballast but was obliged to return without any the surf running so very high.

Saturday 7th January 1804.
Fresh breezes and cloudy weather, surf as yesterday. Sailed three whalers for England.

Sunday 8th January 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday with small rail at times. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 9th January 1804.
Strong breezes with rain in the first part. Sentenced M. Emery 6 lashes at the gangway. Called the hands out but it being the first offence forgave him. Received a boat of ballast. Draft 14F.2I 14A.8I.

Tuesday 10th January 1804.
Fine moderate weather. Received a boat of ballast. Arrived the Calledonie (sic) whaler & an American from China, she sailed same night. All our China ships safe at China. Draft F14.6 A14.11.

Wednesday 11th January 1804.
Light airs & moderate weather. Received a boat of ballast & completed our water. Draft F18.6 A15.0. Arrived an American from Calcutta.

Thursday 12th January 1804.
Pleasant weather throughout. Arrived the H.C.E. ship Union from Madras. Employed as necessary.

Friday 13th January 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Loosed sails to air otherwise necessary. Employed tradesmen as necessary.

Saturday 14th January 1804.
Light airs & fine weather. People employed knotting yarns &c. Cleaned ship.

Sunday 15th January 1804.
Wind SSE with fine weather. Sent part of the people to church.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Monday 16th January 1804.
Light breeze and fine weather. People knotting yarn & making a thread rattling for splinter making.

Tuesday 17th January 1804.
Variable winds & pleasant weather with a long swell from the NE. Arrived H.C.E. ship Herculean from Bencoolen. Also arrived the Ann of Baltimore. The surf running very high.

Wednesday 18th January 1804.
SE winds & fair weather with a long swell from the NE. Arrived the Britannia country ship from Bengal with stores for the Island.

Thursday 19th January 1804.
Winds as yesterday with hazy weather. Unmoored ship and moved further out, steadied with the kedge.

Friday 20th January 1804.
Light breeze from the SW and fair weather. People employed mooring the Herculean further in shore.

Saturday 21st January 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People employed on board the Herculean. Cleaned ship inside & out.

Sunday 22nd January 1804.
Variable winds & fine weather. Arrived the Ancora whaler. Sent part of the ship company to church.

Monday 23rd January 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed working up junk & making a splinter.

Tuesday 24th January 1804.
SE winds and pleasant weather throughout. People employed as yesterday.

Wednesday 25th January 1804.
Fresh breeze at the SE and fair weather. People employed as useful.

Thursday 26th January 1804.
Winds as yesterday with hazy weather. Arrived two whalers. People usefully employed under the boatswain.

Friday 27th January 1804.
Strong SE winds and thick hazy weather with a heavy swell from the northward and an exceeding high surf.

Saturday 28th January 1804.
Strong breezes at ye southward with a heavy swell and a high surf. At 7 AM I came on board. At 6 PM dropped the small bower under foot.

Sunday 29th January 1804.
Light airs at ye SE with thick hazy weather. Weighed the small bower and steadied with the kedge. At 11 AM I went on shore.

Monday 30th January 1804.
Light airs variable with pleasant weather. Arrived the Apollo brig at Porto Scanto [Santo?]. People usefully employed.

Tuesday 31st January 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People as necessary. Received sundry stores for the use of the ship. Arrived the Augusta brig of Salem, (Mass. USA).

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Leaving St Helena

Wednesday 1st February 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship and exercised the guns.

Thursday 2nd February 1804.
Winds & weather as days past. People employed under the boatswain as necessary.

Friday 3rd February 1804.
First part cloudy, middle & latter fair with pleasant weather throughout. People employed making rope & nettings for the tops.

Saturday 4th February 1804.
Light airs variable with hazy weather. Scrubbed hammocks & cleaned ship otherwise as necessary. A ship passed within 3 leagues of the Batteries.

Sunday 5th February 1804.
Light airs variable with fine weather. At 10 AM crossed top gallant yards & got all ready for sea, weighed the kedge, otherwise as necessary. NB This day contains only 12 hours & ends at noon.

[End of Harbour Log]

[Start of Sea Log]

Monday 6th February 1804.
C&D ---- 52 miles. Light airs and calms with fine weather. At 6 PM I came on board with my orders. At 1 AM weighed and made sail to leeward to look out for a strange sail which we supposed to be an enemy's cruiser. AM at noon the body of the Island SbE distance about 16 or 17 leagues. Saw a strange sail from the mast head bearing NNE½E, appeared to be standing on the larboard tack. Distance 52 miles.

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H C Packet Georgiana

Tuesday 7th February 1804.
C&D ---- Light airs and fine weather throughout. At 2PM saw 2 sail in the NE quarter standing to the eastward. At 4PM only one sail in sight at ye mast head, the Island south 18 or 20 leagues. At 6PM neither of the strangers in sight. At 7PM the SW extreme of the island SbE½E distance at 15 or 16 leagues. AM At daylight the extreme of the Island a SSE½E to S½E 10 or 12 leagues At noon a SEbS to EbS about 8 or 10 leagues. Distance 87 miles.

Wednesday 8th February 1804.
C&D ---- Moderate breezes & cloudy throughout. At 4PM the body of the Island bore SE½ at distance 4 or 5 leagues. At sun set extreme at SbE to SE distance 5 or 6 leagues. AM At sun rise extreme at SEbE to EbS the body ESE distance 3 or 4 leagues. At noon the body of the Island SEbS distance about 4 leagues. Distance 82 miles.

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On a cruise off St Helena

Thursday 9th February 1804.
C&D ------ Light airs mostly throughout towards the latter part very baffling with a heavy swell at ye southward throughout. At sun set the body of the Island SEbE extreme at ESE to SE distance off there about 5 leagues. AM At sun rise the body of the Island SEbE 3 or 4 leagues. At 8 SSE 3 leagues. At noon extreme at SbE to ESE 3 leagues. Distance 75 miles.

Friday 10th February 1804.
First part moderate with fine pleasant weather, middle & latter hard squalls & rain. At 4 PM the Island bore SEbS distance 2 leagues. AM At 5 St James Valley SSE distance about 7 miles. At 8 came too with the best bower in 24fms water. At ½ past 8 I left the ship & went to the Governor steadied the ship the kedge otherwise employed as necessary. Sailed from hence for England the Union ship & 5 whalers. NB This Log contains 36 hours & ends at midnight.

[End of Sea Log]

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[Start of Harbour Log]

H C Packet Georgiana

Saturday 11th February 1804.
Light airs from the southward and fine weather. Employed cleaning the ship & as useful.

Sunday 12th February 1804.
Fine weather throughout with light breezes at ye SE. Sent part of the ship company to church.

Monday 13th February 1804.
Strong breezes at ye southward with thick hazy weather. At 5 AM I came on board & got all ready to slip. At 8 arrived the Rebecca whaler. At 10 I went on shore. At noon arrived the Aurora whaler. Employed filling our water up.

Tuesday 14th February 1804.
Light airs and fine weather. People employed as necessary. Arrived the Lord Duncan Captain Murray from Bengal.

Wednesday 15th February 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Arrived the Devaynes & Harriot from Bengal. Employed cleaning the ship.

Thursday 16th February 1804.
Strong puffs with hazy weather. At ½ past 2 PM Governor Patton came on board, saluted him with 19 guns. At ½ past 5 saluted him again with 19 guns. Dressed the ship with colours]

Friday 17th February 1804.
Light breezes with pleasant weather. People drawing yarns to make a boarding netting, otherwise as useful.

Saturday 18th February 1804.
Light airs & calms with fine weather throughout. Cleaned ship.

Sunday 19th February 1804.
Fine pleasant weather throughout with light breezes from the SE. Loosed sails to air. Read prayers on board.

Monday 20th February 1804.
Fine breezes at ye SE and pleasant weather. People employed working up tenth & making 12th rattling for boarding netting.

Tuesday 21st February 1804.
Variable winds & fair weather throughout. People employed as yesterday. Arrived the Peace and Plenty American from Bengal.

Wednesday 22nd February 1804.
SE winds and fair weather. Employed as days past. Arrived the Mary South Seaman at ye Cape of Good Hope, having been cut out by part of her old crew who was prisoners on board as English cartel there they lowered the cartels boat down & boarded the whaler in the night. Passed the Island a ship to the westward.

[High Court of Admiralty, p.201:- It appeared that The Mary was a British whale ship, which had gone into the Cape of Good Hope for a supply of provisions ignorant of hostilities. The ship was seized and the crew imprisoned, except the first and second mates, who were allowed to go at large on their parole, and a prize-master and five men were put on board the vessel. In the meantime The Matilda, an English cartel ship, came in, going with French prisoners from Pondicherry to France. The crew of The Mary, with the two mates, were put on board The Matilda, with an intimation, according to their evidence taken at St Helena "that they were to consider themselves as prisoners of war, to be carried to France, and be there exchanged." In the night of the 4th of February, these men let themselves down in the boat of the Matilda, and got on board their own vessel and took her to St Helena, where she was detained by the governor and sent home, with an account of the transaction, to the officers of government. Proceedings were instituted on the part of the crown, alleging the capture to have been made illegally, and praying that the court would direct the vessel to be given up, at the disposal of his Majesty. An appearance was also given for the original owners for restitution of their ship, and for the crew for salvage, as in a case of rescue.
The article then continues in some length in which the term cartel is used followed by a judgement:-
This ship, being an English south whaler, went into the Cape of Good Hope, ignorant of hostilities, and was there seized. The men were taken out, and put into a Dutch prison; after they had been there some time, an English cartel vessel, with French prisoners from Pondicherry, came in and a negotiation was set on foot between the English commissary of that cartel and the Dutch governor, for the release of these men, for the purpose of carrying them to England, to be there exchanged for Dutch prisoners.
The article continues but it is hoped that a basic understanding of the event has been understood. The use of the term cartel for the Matilda is not altogether clear - the Internet defines it as: 'a written agreement between belligerent nations', in this case Dutch, English and French. The Matilda turned up later in the log of the Georgiana as arriving at St Helena on 23rd May 1804 subsequently sailed for France with her French prisoners on 26th May.]

Thursday 23rd February 1804.
Wind & weather as yesterday. People employed working up junk. Cleaned the ship.

Friday 24th February 1804.
Variable winds & fair weather. People employed in getting ready for sea.

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Saturday 25th February 1804.
SE winds and fine weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns, some hands employed on the Mary as yesterday. Confined in irons Martin Emery seaman for mutinous behaviour.

Sunday 26th February 1804.
Light airs and cloudy weather, sailed for England H.C. ships Devaynes Lord Duncan, Harriot & Herculean, also Aurora, Ganges, Ceres and Mary prizes & Rebecca & Aurora South Seamen.

Monday 27th February 1804.
Variable winds and fair weather. People employed as necessary.

Tuesday 28th February 1804.
Fine pleasant weather, sailed the Peace & Plenty for America. People employed making rope & knotting yarns.

Wednesday 29th February 1804.
Strong SE winds with fair weather. People employed as necessary. Exercised the guns.

Thursday 1st March 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People employed making rope &c. Arrived a Dutch Flag of Truce from the Cape of Good Hope also the Maitland South Seaman.

Friday 2nd March 1804.
Ditto winds & weather employed as requisite. Sailed the Lively whaler to the southward to fill up her cargo. Also the American brig Augusta with an English Flag of Truce to the Cape of Good Hope.

Saturday 3rd March 1804.
Winds & weather as days past. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Arrived the Huddard [Huddart] from Bombay.

Sunday 4th March 1804.
SE winds & moderate weather. Arrived the H.C. ship Britannia from England. Also a brig from the south seas. Sent part of the ship company to church.

Monday 5th March 1804.
Light airs & fair weather. Employed setting up the rigging fore & aft, the third main shroud upon the larboard side broke quite short about ½ way from the mast head. The rest of the main rigging & fore & main top rigging has been appearance of going upon the slightest strain. Arrived the Seringapatam South Seaman.

Tuesday 6th March 1804.
Variable winds & fair weather. Employed as necessary. Arrived the Belle brig from Bengal with dispatches for England, An officer & 14 men employed watering her. At 8 AM punished Martin Emery with two dozen lashes for his mutinous behaviour on the 25th.

Wednesday 7th March 1804.
SE winds & fair weather. People employed as necessary watering the Belle &c. Washed the lower deck & exercised the guns. PM sailed the Belle for England.

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Thursday 8th March 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People employed working up junk. Arrived the Sir Stephen Lushington Captain Gooch from Bengal. Also the Charlton & Earl Howe & the Matilda American.

Friday 9th March 1804.
SE winds and fair weather. People employed as necessary. Arrived the Aurora brig a South Seaman.

Saturday 10th March.
Variable winds & hazy weather throughout. Cleaned ship & otherwise as necessary. Hove to and turned out of the hawse with the propellor, 20 men at the bars.

Sunday 11th March 1804.
SE winds & fair weather. Sailed the Matilda for America. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 12th March 1804.
First part calm, middle light breeze from the SE with rain. Arrived the Ad Gardner Captain Bradford from Bengal. AM Slipped our cables & worked the propellor had 21 hands at the bars hove for ¾ of an hour in which time think we hove ship about ¾ of a mile & gave the ship tolerable steerage way but the people were so fatigued that had not a breeze spring up I must have declined using it any longer on that account made sail & worked in just as the end of ye cable was entering the hawse the warp broke & we drove foul of the Huddard carried away our 2nd galley & stove the jolly boat. Made sail & worked in again.

Tuesday 13th March 1804.
Variable winds & hazy weather. People employed as useful. A sail passed the Island to the westward. Unbent the sails & blacked the yards. Condensed the old fore top sail.

Wednesday 14th March 1804.
SE winds and small rain. Employed making a boarding netting & as necessary. Washed the lower deck.

Thursday 15th March 1804.
Easterly winds and hazy weather. People variously employed. Gunner painting the ship outside. Sailed the Huddard for England. The surf running very high.

Friday 16th March 1804.
Light airs variable with rain. People employed as useful the surf exceeding high lost 5 gang casks washed off the crane.

Saturday 17th March 1804.
Variable winds & hazy weather. People working up junk, cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Arrived the Sea Horse South Seaman.

Sunday 18th March 1804.
SE winds & fair weather. Performed divine service. A brig passed by the east end of the Island in sight of the ships in the roads.

Monday 19th March 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed getting ready to ship. Arrived two African whalers. Bent the sails.

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Tuesday 20th March 1804.
Light airs & calm throughout. Employed working up junk & otherwise as useful.

Wednesday 21st March 1804.
Variable winds & hazy rainy weather. People as yesterday. Arrived the Betsey American of Salem.

Thursday 22nd March 1804.
SE winds & hazy weather. People employed making rope & exercised the guns.

Friday 23rd March 1804.
Variable winds with rain at times. People employed as necessary. Arrived an American. Three ships passed the Island.

Saturday 24th March 1804.
SE winds & fair weather. People employed cleaning ship &c. Exercised the guns. Sailed the American that arrived yesterday.

Sunday 25th March 1804.
Variable winds & rain at times. Performed divine service.

Monday 26th March 1804.
SE winds & fair weather. At daylight unmoored and shifted our birth in the line with the Indiamen. Moored head & stern. Arrived the Hunter American from the Cape of Good Hope.

Tuesday 27th March 1804.
Easterly winds & fair weather. People employed as necessary. A sail passed the Island.

Wednesday 28th March 1804.
Ditto winds & weather washed the lower deck, exercised the guns & otherwise as necessary.

Thursday 29th March 1804.
Variable winds with hazy weather. Employed getting ballast.

Friday 30th March 1804.
South easterly winds and mostly fair weather. Employed getting ballast as necessary.

Saturday 31st March 1804.
Variable winds at south & east mostly fair. People as necessary.

Sunday 1st April 1804.
Strong breezes South Easterly with squalls at times. AM unmoored ship & got ready to weigh. At 4 PM weighed and made a bore to the eastward to let the Indiamen get under way at 7 PM. Anchored again in 17fms water. Sailed for England the Honourable Company ships Charlton, Sir S Lushington, Admiral Gardner and Earl Howe likewise the Sea Horse, African, Seringapatam South Seaman and the Maitland and the Hanover American.

Monday 2nd April 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People working up junk and getting ballast for the ship. Arrived the Thetis South Seaman.

Tuesday 3rd April 1804.
Winds & weather as days past. People employed working up junk and otherwise as necessary.

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Wednesday 4th April 1804.
SE winds and fine weather. People employed in the hold and working up junk.

Thursday 5th April 1804.
Winds and weather as before. People under the boatswain working up junk. Arrived the Dart brig South Seaman from Botany Bay.

Friday 6th April 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed for days past. Arrived the British Tar South Sea whaler.

Saturday 7th April 1804.
South easterly winds and fair weather. People employed in the hold and working up junk. Arrived from England H.M. frigate L'Egyptienne. Also from the eastward an American schooner. Cleaned ship and exercised guns.

Sunday 8th April 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 9th April 1804.
Strong south easterly winds with hard squalls at times. Employed working up junk & otherwise as necessary. At 5 PM dragged our anchor let go the small bower and brought up in 27fms water. A sail past the Island in the night.

Tuesday 10th April 1804.
Fresh SE winds and fair weather. At noon weighed & stood to the eastward ¼ before 5 k'd[?] & stood in again. At ½ past 1 came too with best bower in 19fms.

Wednesday 11th April 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People usefully employed. Arrived the Mary American from Canton.

Thursday 12th April 1804.
SE winds & fair weather. People employed setting up the rigging.

Friday 13th April 1804.
Ditto winds. People variously employed under the boatswain.

Saturday 14th April 1804.
Variable winds and hazy weather. Employed cleaning ship &c. Sailed an American ship.

Sunday 15th April 1804.
SE winds and hazy weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Arrived the Hon'ble Company ship Walmer Castle from England.

Monday 16th April 1804.
Variable winds and fair weather. People employed working up junk and as necessary.

Tuesday 17th April 1804.
SE winds and hazy weather. People employed working up junk and making the boarding netting. Arrived an American brig.

Wednesday 18th April 1804.
Strong SE winds and fair weather. People employed as yesterday.

Thursday 19th April 1804.
Variable winds and fair weather. People employed fitting the boarding netting.

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Friday 20th April 1804.
SE winds and fair weather. People employed as useful.

Saturday 21st April 1804.
Winds and weather as yesterday. People usefully employed, washed the lower deck & exercised the guns. Arrived the Rambler brig South Seaman.

Sunday 22nd April 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. Arrived an American ship.

Monday 23rd April 1804.
Variable winds and fair weather. People usefully employed. Sailed an American and brig.

Tuesday 24th April 1804.
Strong SE winds and fair weather. People as necessary.

Wednesday 25th April 1804.
Strong SE winds and hazy weather. At 6 AM weighed and stood out to the westward in company with H.M. Frigate L'Egypteinne. At 1 PM very squally carried away our standing top mast backstays on the larboard side fore & aft. Move ship and stood in for the Island, thick hazy weather. At ½ past 9 PM came too with the best bower in 19fms water. At ½ past 10 came to an anchor H.M. frigate L'Egypteinne.

Thursday 26th April 1804.
SE winds and fair weather. Warped further in shore came too in 13fms otherwise employed stripping the ship.

Friday 27th April 1804.
Ditto winds and weather. Employed stripping ship got the lower and top sail yards down, struck top mast and lifted the fore lower rigging. Arrived the Princess Amelia American.

Saturday 28th April 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday AM A survey was held on board by Captain Birch H.C.S. Britannia. Mr Bird Chief Officer Do., Mr Ballfour Master H.H.F. L'Egypteinne and the boatswains of both those ships who were unanimously of opinion that the main rigging main and fore top mast rigging and backstays with the fore top mast stays were unfit for service, PM Two sails in sight to windward.

Sunday 29th April 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Performed divine service. Arrived three South Seaman and an American.

Monday 30th April 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed fitting new rigging &c.

Tuesday 1st May 1804.
Variable winds and fair weather. Got the fore rigging over the mast head & rigged the lower yards. Arrived the Thetis and Spritley whalers.

Wednesday 2nd May 1804.
Variable winds and fair weather. People employed fitting the rigging. Some hands on shore fitting new main rigging.

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Thursday 3rd May 1804.
Variable winds & fair weather. Got the new main rigging over the mast head. Employed turning in the dead eyes. Some hands on shore fitting new top mast rigging in stretching our new top mast shroud hawser it broke in three places with single purchase, (sun rope). Sailed six South Seaman for England.

Friday 4th May 1804.
SE winds and fair weather. Got the top masts rigging over head, swayed up the top masts. Employed turning in dead eyes &c. Fitted a new fore top mast spring stay out of sun rope, part of the top mast shroud hawser.

Saturday 5th May 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Employed rigging the ship, swifted in the main rigging, swayed up the lower yards. A ship past the Island during the night.

Sunday 6th May 1804.
South easterly winds and fair weather. AM Cleaned ship. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Sailed the L'Egypteinne frigate and the Hon'ble Company ship Walmer Castle to the southward.

Monday 7th May 1804.
SE winds with squalls at times. Employed as days past. Crossed the top sail yards. Converted the old fore top mast stays into mizen rigging.

Tuesday 8th May 1804.
Light airs and calm with rain at times. Set the lower & top mast rigging up, pointed the top gallant mast through & got the jib boom & sprit sail yard out. Arrived the Brook Watson whaler. Commenced to row guard with the Britannia.

Wednesday 9th May 1804.
Variable winds with hazy rain. Employed rattling down the rigging and as necessary.

Thursday 10th May 1804.
Light airs and calms with fine weather throughout. Employed blacking yards and tarring down the rigging. Arrived the Brothers whaler.

Friday 11th May 1804.
Wind & weather as yesterday. Employed receiving the running rigging junking oakum & sundry other jobs. Gunner grinding of paint.

Saturday 12th May 1804.
Fine weather with light airs and calms. Employed about the rigging as useful, caulkers caulking the outside. Bent top sails.

Sunday 13th May 1804.
Fine pleasant weather throughout. Cleaned ship. Sent part of the ships company to church. Two sail in sight of the roads.

Monday 14th May 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Unmoored ship and shifted our birth a little to the eastward. Steadied the ship with the kedge, bent a new sun cable for a best bower which we received from our stores on shore. Caulkers caulking the outside of the ship. Some hands picking oakum. Four sails in sight of the Island.

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Tuesday 15th May 1804.
Light airs variable with fine weather. People employed variously. Came into the roads at ye southward H.M.F. L'Egypteinne and stood out again to the eastward. Arrived the Financer American from Batavia. At sun set 4 sail in sight of the Island. Arrived in the night the Auguster [probably Augusta] American brig from the Cape of Good Hope. Caulkers as yesterday.

Wednesday 16th May 1804.
First part moderate, latter fresh breezes at ye SE. PM Anchored here H.M.F. L'Egypteinne from a cruise. Caulkers as days past.

Thursday 17th May 1804.
Strong breezes with hard squalls and rain. People under the boatswain, caulkers as days past. Quarter Masters repairing the main fore sail which was eaten by rats. Washed the lower deck. Arrived a whaler.

Friday 18th May 1804.
SE winds with squalls & rain at times. Set the top mast rigging up &c. Caulkers caulking the 2nd deck. Sailed for England the Kingston & Brothers whalers, also the America for America.

Saturday 19th May 1804.
Squally throughout with rain. People employed cleaning ship & picking oakum. Arrived H.M.S. Plantagenet & H.C.E.S. Thames from England last from Gorle. [the statement 'last from Gorle' is not understood.]

Sunday 20th May 1804.
Strong breezes with small rain at times. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 21st May 1804.
Squally weather and rain throughout. Caulkers on the lower deck. People variously employed.

Tuesday 22nd May 1804.
Strong breezes & cloudy weather. Loosed sails to air, employed picking oakum and cleaning the lower deck.

Wednesday 23rd May 1804.
First part strong breezes middle & latter moderate & fair. Employed variously. Arrived the Matilda cartel from the Cape of Good Hope.

Thursday 24th May 1804.
Light airs throughout. Gunner painting the ship, Employed as useful.

Friday 25th May 1804.
Ditto winds & fine weather. Gunner as yesterday. Loosed sails to air otherwise employed as necessary.

Saturday 26th May 1804.
Squally weather with rain throughout. Employed cleaning ship. Sailed for France the Matilda cartel.

Sunday 27th May 1804.
Moderate & fair. Sent the people to church.

Monday 28th May 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Loosed sails to dry. Set up the top main rigging &c.

Tuesday 29th May 1804.
Variable winds with rain in the night. People as necessary, exercised the guns.

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Wednesday 30th May 1804.
Light airs & fine weather throughout in the first part, later small rain. Washed the lower deck and as necessary.

Thursday 31st May 1804.
Moderate breezes and fine weather. Loosed sails to air, exercised the guns &c. as useful.

Friday 1st June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship, people otherwise were as necessary. Passed by an American ship from Bengal.

Saturday 2nd June 1804.
Fine pleasant weather throughout. People variously employed under the boatswain.

Sunday 3rd June 1804.
Ditto winds and weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 4th June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed. Exercised the guns. At 1 PM fired a Royal Salute in honour of His Majesty's birth day.

Tuesday 5th June 1804.
Light airs and calms. People under the boatswain. PM Broke adrift the whale boat and lost.

Wednesday 6th June 1804.
Winds and weather as per days past. People employed making points gaskets &c. Cleaned the lower deck, loosed sails to air.

Thursday 7th June 1804.
Winds & weather as per days past. People employed as yesterday.

Friday 8th June 1804.
Light airs from the SE and fine weather. People under the boatswain. Exercised the guns.

Saturday 9th June 1804.
Strong breezes with rain mostly throughout. Arrived H.M. ships Albion &Scepter [Sceptre] of 74 guns with the H.C. China fleet consisting of 16 large ships who had beat off the French squadron in the China Seas before H.M.S. joined them. Employed boarding them it being our guard day.

Sunday 10th June 1804.
Strong puffs of wind at times with flying showers. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 11th June 1804.
Squally weather with rain. People employed under the boatswain.

Tuesday 12th June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed as most useful.

Wednesday 13th June 1804.
Winds & weather as before. Employed people as necessary. Cleaned the lower deck.

Thursday 14th June 1804.
South easterly winds with mostly fair weather. Loosed sails to air otherwise as necessary. Arrived an American ship. Payed the ships company one months wages. Joh Wheatley ordinary seaman discharged.

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Friday 15th June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship inside & out otherwise as necessary.

Saturday 16th June 1804.
Winds & weather as before. People under the boatswain.

Sunday 17th June 1804.
Ditto winds and weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 18th June 1804.
Pleasant SE breezes and fine weather. Sailed for England H.M. ship Plantagenet H.C.E.S. 16 China ships, H.C.E.S. Carmarthen and five South Seamen. People as necessary.

Tuesday 19th June 1804.
Moderate winds with mostly fair weather. Loosed sails to air otherwise employed as useful.

Wednesday 20th June 1804.
Winds and weather as yesterday. Cleaned the lower deck. Exercised the guns.

Thursday 21st June 1804.
Strong breeze with rain at times. People usefully employed.

Friday 22nd June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People as days past.

Saturday 23rd June 1804.
Fine breezes with mostly fair weather. Employed cleaning ship &c.

Sunday 24th June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Sailed H.M. Frigate L'Egypteinne for England.

Monday 25th June 1804.
Winds & weather as before. People variously employed under the boatswain. Arrived from Bengal the Sir William Pulteney, country ship. Also a Portuguese.

Tuesday 26th June 1804.
Strong breezes with hazy weather. People under the boatswain. Arrived a Danish ship form the Isle of France.

Wednesday 27th June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People as yesterday.

Thursday 28th June 1804.
Moderate breezes with rainy weather. People variously employed boarding ship etc. Arrived H.C. ships Windham, Calcutta & the City of London,. Also the Eliza Ann & Union country ships.

The following extract gives much detail concerning the voyages of the two country ships Eliza Ann and Union is from Wikipedia:-

On Union's first voyage for the EIC Captain William Stokoe sailed from Calcutta on 17 January 1804, bound for England. Union was at Saugor on 8 March. She sailed in company with Sir William Pulteney and reached St Helena on 28 June 1805. Union sailed from St Helena on 9 July in company with Sir William Pulteney and a third EIC "extra" ship, Eliza Ann. The Governor of St Helena, Colonel Robert Patton, permitted them to sail without escort. Had he held them until a convoy had formed, the EIC would have been liable for hefty demurrage charges. Captain Mungo Gilmore, of Eliza Ann, was the senior captain and Patton appointed him to command the group. At daylight on 22 August, the Indiamen sighted a French privateer brig that sailed towards them and engaged Union, which was the leading ship. The engagement lasted about 20 minutes and the French vessel surrendered . . . after Eliza Ann and Sir William Pulteney came up. The privateer was Venus, and she was armed with sixteen 4, 8, & 12-pounder guns. She had a crew of 73 men, of whom five were away on prizes, under the command of Lieutenant Pierre Henri Nicholas Benamy of the French Navy. In the engagement Venus had lost one man killed and had two men seriously wounded. Union had two men wounded. She also had on board five men from a prize crew that HMS Wasp had put on a Spanish vessel that Venus had recaptured. The Indiamen divided up the French prisoners among them. The next evening, west of Scilly, Venus parted from the Indiamen and headed for a British port. Sir William Pulteney, Eliza Ann, and Union arrived at The Downs on 2 September 1804.tember. Venus arrived at Deal on 24 September 1804.tember. William Marshall apparently sold both Sir William Pulteney and Union in England. The EIC then engaged Union as an extra ship for four voyages. At the time they had her repaired by Brent and measured. It also engaged Sir William Pulteney for six voyages.

Friday 29th June 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People as necessary. Arrived H.C.E.S. General Stewart.

Saturday 30th June 1804.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns.

Sunday 1st July 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church.

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Monday 2nd July 1804.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. People variously employed under the boatswain. Confined in irons Thos Sheppard seaman for insolence to Mr Harrington 2nd officer.

Tuesday 3rd July 1804.
Moderate breezes and hazy weather. People variously employed under the boatswain.

Wednesday 4th July 1804.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. Cleaned ship. People employed as necessary. Sailed for India H.M.S. Albion & Scepter [Sceptre] & the H.C.S. Thames for China. Punished Thos Sheppard with one dozen lashes at the gang way for the crime above mentioned on the 2nd.

Thursday 5th July 1804.
Winds and weather as days past. People employed under the boatswain.

Friday 6th July 1804.
Winds and weather as days past. People as yesterday. Arrived a South Seaman.

Saturday 7th July 1804.
Moderate breezes with hazy weather. Loosed sails to air. Cleaned lower deck & exercised the guns.

Sunday 8th July 1804.
Fresh breezes south easterly fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. Sailed for England the Sir William Pulteney, Eliza Ann & Union country ships.

Monday 9th July 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People under the boatswain working up junk into mats, Gaskets &c.

Tuesday 10th July 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Unmoored ship otherwise as necessary.

Wednesday 11th July 1804.
Light winds and fair weather. AM The H.C.S. Ceylon in shifting her birth ran foul of in and carried away our gaff. At 11 weighed and stood to the eastward. PM Returned and anchored in 57fms, Ruperts Bay moored ship half a cable each way. Arrived from China the Rolla, Botany Bay Man & the John Jay American brig.

Thursday 12th July 1804.
Winds and weather as yesterday. People employed under the boatswain.

Friday 13th July 1804.
French breezes and fine weather. People employed as necessary.

Saturday 14th July 1804.
Breezes and hazy weather. Cleaned ship inside & out. Payed the ships company one months wages.

Sunday 15th July 1804.
Ditto winds and weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 16th July 1804.
Heavy squalls with flying showers of rain. People variously employed.

Tuesday 17th July 1804.
Strong gusts of wind with heavy showers of rain. People necessarily employed. Carpenters making a new gaff.

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Wednesday 18th July 1804. Very heavy gusts of wind with flying showers of rain. Struck top gallant masts otherwise as necessary.

Thursday 19th July 1804.
Strong gales of wind with rain at times. People variously employed under the boatswain.

Friday 20th July Wind more moderate with rain at times. People under the boatswain. Got a new gaff up.

Saturday 21st July 1804.
Moderate breezes with mostly fine weather. Cleaned ship. PM Fidded top gallant mast. A brig in sight to leeward.

Sunday 22nd July 1804.
Light breezes & & fine weather. AM sailed on a cruise H.C.S. Britannia. AM received 20 seamen & 15 soldiers. At noon slipped the small bower, weighed the best bower & hove too. Made the Britannia's signal with a gun to come within hail. At 5 PM spoke her & stood to leeward after the strange brig. At 4 PM spoke her & found her to be the Richmond from Virginia bound to the Isle of France but meaning to touch here, hauled our wind to the eastward in company with the Britannia & brig.

Monday 23rd July 1804.
Moderate breezes and fine weather. At 7 AM came too an anchor picked over small bower up & moored ship. Also anchored the Britannia & brig. Sent the seamen to their respective ships and the soldiers on shore. At 10 AM anchored here from England H.C. Frigate Marquis Cornwallis. William Wicker seaman discharged.

Tuesday 24th July 1804.
Moderate winds mostly fair weather. Worked the metallic pump, got it over the side, found it worked easier there.

Wednesday 25th July 1804.
Winds and weather as before. Cleaned ship inside & out otherwise employed as necessary.

Thursday 26th July 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen usefully employed.

Friday 27th July 1804.
Moderate breezes with flying showers of rain. People & tradesmen as necessary.

Saturday 28th July 1804.
Light winds with thick misty weather. Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Some hands employed in the hold.

Sunday 29th July 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the company to church.

Monday 30th July 1804.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Employed in the hold and as necessary. Sent 5 pipes of port wine on board the Britannia

Tuesday 31st July 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed getting stone ballast &c.

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Wednesday 1st August 1804.
Fine breezes mostly fair weather. Finished ballast AM Punished John Stymets seaman with one dozen lashes for Breaking his liberty & striking a midshipman. PM sailed for India H.C. ship Britannia & H.C. Frigate Marquis Cornwallis.

Thursday 2nd August 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary.

Friday 3rd August 1804.
Winds and weather as before. People employed as useful.

Saturday 4th August 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship inside & out & exercised the guns.

Sunday 5th August 1804.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 6th August 1804.
Fresh breezes with thick misty weather. Sent an officer with most of our people on board the American brig Richmond to get her ready for sea. She being detained by Government. Arrived H.M.S Courageaux [Courageux] & two store ships.

Tuesday 7th August 1804.
Fresh breezes with cloudy weather & rain. People as yesterday on board the brig Richmond to get her ready for sea. She being detained by Government.

Wednesday 8th August 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People as before. Received sundry casks of American provision from H.C. Stores.

Thursday 9th August 1804.
Moderate breezes with rain. Employed getting the Richmond brig ready for sea.

Friday 10th August 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People do.

Saturday 11th August 1804.
Moderate breezes mostly fair weather AM Parked our steam cable, sought for it got the end on board spliced it & hove taught upon it again. Some hands on board the Richmond.

Sunday 12th August 1804.
Winds and weather as yesterday. AM Performed divine service.

Monday 13th August 1804.
Fine breezes and fair weather. Sailed for England H.M. ship Courageaux [Courageux], H.C. ships Windham, Calcutta, Ceylon, City of London, General Stewart, extra ship, Rolla Botany Bay Man, Vulture and Lively whalers & the Richmond American brig. Employed under the boatswain as necessary.

Tuesday 14th August 1804.
Winds and weather as before. AM Unmoored ship at 8 weighed & stood to the eastward. At noon tacked & stood in again at 5 PM. Anchored in James's Valley. Paid the ships company one months pay. Arrived from Bengal H.C. ships Lady Castlereigh, Preston & Europe.

Wednesday 15th August 1804.
Fresh breezes and cloudy weather. Washed the lower deck otherwise as necessary.

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Thursday 16th 1804.
Light breezes and fair weather. AM Unmoored, weighed & shifted our birth to the westward to give room for the India Mary to moor in line. At 9 AM moored ship Abnam of Break Nuts Valley otherwise as necessary.

Friday 17th August 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Employed under the boatswain.

Saturday 18th August 1804.
Moderate breezes and cloudy weather. Washed the lower deck & exercised the guns.

Sunday 19th August 1804.
Moderate breezes fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 20th August 1804.
Ditto winds and weather. People variously employed.

Tuesday 21st August 1804.
Moderate breezes and fair weather. People & tradesmen as useful.

Wednesday 22nd August 1804.
Winds & weather as before. Cleaned ship inside and out &c.

Thursday 23rd August 1804.
Moderate breezes with cloudy weather and rain. People as necessary.

Friday 24th August 1804.
Fresh breezes with cloudy weather and rain. People under the boatswain.

Saturday 25th August 1804.
Moderate winds with fine pleasant weather, Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Confined Thos Sheppard & R. Hughes for leaving the ship.

Sunday 26th August 1804. 1804
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of ships company to church. Received order to sweep for the City of London's Anchor.

[The City of London had sailed for England on 13th August.]

Monday 27th August 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Punished Thos Sheppard & R. Hughes seamen with 6 lashes each for the crime mentioned on the 25th. People employed under the boatswain.

Tuesday 28th August 1804.
Fresh breezes and fine weather. People & tradesmen usefully employed.

Wednesday 29th August 1804.
Winds & weather as before. Cleaned ship otherwise under the boatswain. Some hands on board the Dover castle, to assist in getting her ready to sea.

Thursday 30th August 1804.
Moderate breezes south easterly mostly fine weather. People under the boatswain. Some hands on board the Dover Castle.

Friday 31st August 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen at their respective callings, some hands on board the Dover Castle.

Saturday 1st September 1804.
Moderate breezes with strong puffs at times & mostly fair weather. Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Gunner grinding paint. Arrived the Cornwall whaler.

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Sunday 2nd September 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church. Received orders to sweep for the City of London's anchor.

Monday 3rd September 1804.
Mostly strong breezes with fine weather. Some hands assisting the Dover Castle otherwise necessarily employed under the boatswain & gunner.

Tuesday 4th September 1804.
Fresh breezes southerly with fair weather. Sailed the Lady Burgess & Dover Castle H.C. ships for Bengal.

Wednesday 5th September 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed blacking the yards, tarring the rigging &c. Gunner painting.

Thursday 6th September 1804.
Moderate breezes variable with mostly fair weather. Some hands blacking the rigging, gunner painting the quartermaster deck otherwise employed as necessary.

Friday 7th September 1804.
Moderate breezes with squalls at times. Gunner painting the quartermaster deck. People on sundry jobs under the boatswain.

Saturday 8th September 1804.
Ditto winds and weather. Cleaned the lower deck, scrubbed hammocks &c. otherwise as most necessary.

Sunday 9th September 1804.
Moderate breezes mostly fair weather. AM Performed divine service.

Monday 10th September 1804.
Sight westerly winds with fair weather. People usefully employed under the boatswain &c. Bent sails, gunner painting the cabins.

Tuesday 11th September 1804.
Fresh breezes from the westward. AM cleaned hawse at 9 weighed &c. shifted our birth abreast of James Valley moored as before in 17fms water. At daylight sailed the H.C.S. Lady Castlereagh, Preston and Europe also the Cornwall, & Ocean whalers. PM Arrived an American ship.

Wednesday 12th September 1804.
Moderate breezes with drizzley rain. Cleaned ship inside & out otherwise as necessary.

Thursday 13th September 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed under the boatswain. Gunner cleaning small arms.

Friday 14th September 1804.
Light breezes mostly fair weather. Payed the ships company one months pay. Arrived an American brig.

Saturday 15th September 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship inside and out, exercised the guns.

Sunday 16th September 1804.
Moderate breezes with fine weather. Sent part of ships company to church.

Monday 17th September 1804.
Light breezes mostly fair weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Sailed the American ship.

Tuesday 18th September 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed tradesmen at their respective callings.

Wednesday 19th September 1804.
Moderate breezes with fine weather. Cleaned hawser, cleaned ship inside & out.

Thursday 20th September 1804.
Light breezes mostly fair weather. People under the boatswain &c. as necessary.

Friday 21st September 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed tradesmen as necessary.

Saturday 22nd September 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Changed 9 casks of American pork for 6 of Irish out of the H.C. stores.

Sunday 23rd September 1804.
Light breeze & fine weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 24th September 1804.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. Hoisted the provisions up out of the fore hold. Stacked our water, Got the butts up and cleared the limbers forward. Arrived the Active brig whaler at England AM American do [whaler] from Rhode Island.

Tuesday 25th September 1804.
Fine breezes & fair weather. Stacked all our water & cleared the limbers. Received one boat load of water. Found several butts eat through both heads by the rats & quite empty.

Wednesday 26th September 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Received two boat loads of water otherwise variously employed.

Thursday 27th September 1804.
Moderate breezes & fine weather. Stowed the provisions in the fore hold filled the casks up with pickle. Two sail past the Island under American colours, one a whaler sent her boat in for refreshments.

Friday 28th September 1804.
Fresh breezes & fair weather. Hauled up the cables cleaned the limbers & paid them down again. Completed our water. PM Arrived an American ship.

Saturday 29th September 1804.
Ditto winds and weather. Cleaned ship, cleared hawse otherwise as necessary. Arrived the Anna country ship from Bengal.

Sunday 30th September 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM The H.C.E.S. Tigris from Madras sent her boat in, she hove too off Butter Milk Point for some time when she made sail. It blew so hard she could not fetch into the roads all night.

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Monday 1st October 1804.
Fresh breezes with hard squalls & fine weather. People variously employed. PM Anchored very wide the Tigris but drifted off again. Sent officer with most of our crew to her assistance.

Tuesday 2nd October 1804.
Strong SE winds with hazy weather. At day light the Tigris courses down to leeward working in for the roads. Sailed the American ship. NB This log contains only 12 hours.

Wednesday 3rd October 1804.
Heavy squalls. Weighed the small best bower & slipped for the best bower. Made sail. Fore top sail sheet broke twice from rope. At noon received orders to take on board refreshments for the Tigris and go down to leeward to her at ¼ before 4pm. Received my instructions, lost sight of the Tigris just before we slipped, it being very hazy. Strong breezes. At sunset James Valley 16w½W 9fms. At 8 extreme of the Island at SWbS to S½E. AM At 2 saw a sail on our larboard beam showed two lights at the mizen peak which she answered with the same thought, she tacked after us. At day light saw nothing of her. Rope new top sail sheets. Distance 75 miles.

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Thursday 4th October 1804.
Moderate breezes with squally and rain at times. PM At 4 the body of the Island SWbS 4 or 5 leagues. At sunset the extreme of the land at S½E to WSW about 4 leagues. AM At sunrise the eastern most extreme of the Island SbE. At 8 extreme at SbE½E to SWbS 4 or 5 leagues. At noon extreme at SSE½E to SSW 3 leagues. From noon till sunset working into the roads. At sunset anchored with the small bower run out a hawser to ye end of the best bower & moored ship as before. Found riding here the Tigris, Bengal Anna, Mornington & two American brigs. Note this log contains 36 hours.

Friday 5th October 1804.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Cleaned ship, some hands employed on board the Tigris. At midnight sailed the Tigris for England.

Saturday 6th October 1804.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen as necessary.

Sunday 7th October 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 8th October 1804.
Moderate breezes and fair weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Received two leaguers to arrack & sundry other stores for the use of the ship.

Tuesday 9th October 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed as most useful under the boatswain, tradesmen at their respective callings.

Wednesday 10th October 1804.
Light breeze south easterly & fair weather. Cleaned ship & otherwise as necessary. Carpenter making capstan bars, other tradesmen as useful. Condemned the old main top sail.

Thursday 11th October 1804.
Moderate breezes south easterly & fair weather. People under the boatswain. Working up junk, tradesmen as necessary.

Friday 12th October 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People making points & gaskets &c.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 13th October 1804.
Fresh breezes south easterly & fair weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns.

Sunday 14th October 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. Payed the ships company one months pay. PM Sailed for England the Anna & Mornington country ships.

Monday 15th October 1804.
Moderate winds & fair weather. People variously employed under the boatswain &c.

Tuesday 16th October 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed as yesterday.

Wednesday 17th October 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Washed the lower deck. AM Arrived an Hambro [meaning not understood] ship from Po Penang. Sailed two American brigs. fired three shot to bring one of them too, The breeching bolts drew out of the timbers on the quarter deck & the stern chaser upset the carriages were damaged.

Thursday 18th October 1804.
Fresh breezes mostly fine weather. AM Arrived H.C.E.S. Princess Mary. People variously employed, carpenter mending the bulwarks.

Friday 19th October 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People working up junk, carpenter as yesterday & repairing the gun carriages.

Saturday 20th October 1804.
Fresh breezes & fair weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns, carpenter as yesterday.

Sunday 21st October 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Sailed the Hambro ship. PM Arrived the Maria country ship last from Po Penang.

Monday 22nd October 1804.
Fresh breezes mostly fair weather. People employed under the boatswain working up junk. Carpenter repairing the gun carriages. AM Arrived an American whaler from Delagoa Bay [Mozambique].

Tuesday 23rd October 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People under the boatswain as necessary. Carpenter as before.

Wednesday 24th October 1804.
Moderate breezes mostly fair. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary.

Thursday 25th October 1804.
Light breezes and fine weather. People employed making points, gaskets &c. &c. At 5 PM Fired a Royal Salute.

Friday 26th October 1804.
Moderate breezes & fine weather. People as yesterday.

Saturday 27th October 1804.
Light windy variable at times with fair weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. AM Sailed the American whaler.

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Sunday 28th October 1804.
Light breezes & fine weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 29th October 1804.
Light westerly winds with fair weather. People under the boatswain working up junk. Found a cask of American flour eat out by the rats about 20lbs.

Tuesday 30th October 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People making points gaskets &c. &c.

Wednesday 31st October 1804.
Moderate breezes mostly fine weather. Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns.

Thursday 1st November 1804.
SE winds with strong puffs at times & mostly fair weather. People working up junk.

Friday 2nd November 1804.
Strong breezes throughout with drizzling rain at times. Held a court of enquiry on the conduct of Captain Grieves of the H.C.E.S. Princess Mary to his Surgeon. Examined the witnesses &c. & remitted the proceedings to the Government.

[There was clearly a problem here between Captain Grieve and his surgeon. Captain Andrew Grieve, born 1761. commanded the Princess Mary 1800/1 & 1802/3; without looking at the journals of the Princess Mary for this particular voyage it is not possible to ascertain the name of the Surgeon concerned.]

Saturday 3rd November 1804.
Moderate breezes south easterly with drizzling rain. Cleaned ship, exercised the guns.

Sunday 4th November 1804.
Moderate breezes easterly. Three ships in sight approaching the Island. Cleaned for action & got springs on the cables &c. PM Anchored here the H.C. ships Elphinstone & Essex, and the H.C.E.S. Ann from Bombay. Cast off the springs.

Monday 5th November 1804.
Moderate breezes south easterly & fine weather. People variously making points &c. Carpenter & mate [carpenter's mate] employed on board H.C. ship Elphinstone.

Tuesday 6th November 1804.
Moderate breezes & fine weather. Got the flour up out of the hold & stowed it in the lazare h [lazaretto hold] found too more casks entirely eat out by the rats. People mostly under the boatswain.

Wednesday 7th November 1804.
Winds & weather as days past. AM loosed sails to air, cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns.

Thursday 8th November 1804.
Fine breezes and fair weather. Sailed for England H.C.E. Elphinstone, Princess Mary & Maria country ship. Employed under the boatswain.

Friday 9th November 1804.
Moderate breezes and fine weather. People employed making points & gaskets &c. PM Arrived an American ship from Batavia.

Saturday 10th November 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns.

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Sunday 11th November 1804.
Winds & weather as per days past. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Confined in irons Thos Sheppard seaman for insolence to Mr Harrington 2nd officer.

Monday 12th November 1804.
Mostly light breezes throughout with fair weather. People employed making rope bands &c.

Tuesday 13th November 1804.
Light airs & calms throughout with fair weather. AM Held a survey on the flour casks found the rats had destroyed 558lbs. People working up junk. Punished Thos Sheppard seaman with two dozen lashes at the gangway for insolence to the 2nd officer on the 11th inst. PM sailed an American.

Wednesday 14th November 1804.
Strong winds & fine weather. AM Received orders to sail on a cruise; weighed the small bower & after having weighed the best bower out of the ground, it brought us up again & we sidled so near the Essex as to get foul but did no particular damaged finding we could not weigh it with assistance from both ship veered away & slipped supposing that the Elphinstone had overlaid us with her stern cable. NB This log contains only 12 hours.

[End of Harbour Log]

[Start of Sea Log]

Thursday 15th November 1804.
C&D ----. At ½ past 1 PM Slipped with moderate breezes at SE. At 3 the body of the Island SEBS about 7 miles, At 6pm the extreme from ESE to SbE distance about 6 leagues. AM At day light saw a strange sail bearing NWbW standing to the NW distance about 5 or 6 miles, At 7 she was out of sight. At 8 the body of the Island SE distance 9 or 10 leagues. At noon the Island SSE. Distance 100 miles.

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Friday 16th November 1804.
C&D ----- Mostly fresh breezes throughout with hazy weather. At midnight saw the land bearing SE. AM At daylight the body of the Island SW about 7 leagues. At 8 SbE½ distance about 5 leagues. At 11 carried away the fore top gallant backstay & the after mizen shroud starboard side (sun rope). At noon the extreme from SbE to SE distance off shore 3 or 4 leagues.

Saturday 17th November 1804.
Moderate breezes mostly hazy weather with a swell from the SE. At 4 PM saw 2 boats drifting to leeward. Lowered down the jolly boat & picked them up, found them to be our own, that has broke from their moorings the night before in the roads. At sunset the body of the Island SSE½E 3 or 4 leagues. AM At day light the extreme of the land at SSE to SSW 2 or 3 leagues. At 1 PM came to an anchor in 18fms water. Steadied the ship with a kedge from riding here. H.C.S. Elphinstone, Essex, Woodford, Hugh Inglis & Ann extra. PM Arrived H.C.E.S. Glory from Madras with her colours half mast in consequence of the death of her commander the previous day. NB This log contains 36 hours.

[End of Sea Log]

[Start of Harbour Log]

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Sunday 18th November 1804.
Mostly moderate breezes & fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. At noon a boat with an officer attended the funeral of Captain Perry late of the H.C.E ship Glory on shore.

[Captain John Perry (born 1772) as stated above and in in Farrington, died 17th November 1804. He was the 1st mate and had only recently assumed the position because of the death of the Glory's commander Captain Thomas Rumbold Taylor (born 1776) who had died on 4th March 1804. Captain Perry was buried on land 19th November 1804.]

Monday 19th November 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Hauled taught the gammoning of the bowsprit, set the bobstays up, stayed the masts & p'set the rigging up fore & aft. Carpenter repainting the boats gunner, cleaning small arms. Payed one months pay.

Tuesday 20th November 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. AM condemned the mizen & mizen top mast rigging, fitted new of Europe. Tradesmen as necessary. Carpenter on board the Elphinstone.

Wednesday 21st November 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Got the mizen rigging over the mast head. Fidded mizen top mast. Condemned the old stream cable.

Thursday 22nd November 1804.
Fresh breezes with mostly fair weather. People under the boatswain. Arrived H.C.E.S. Northampton from India.

Friday 23rd November 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Struck top gallant masts and fitted new rigging of Europe. At 1 PM fired a salute of 17 guns in consequence of Col Cox being sworn in Lieut Governor of the Island.

Saturday 24th November 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns.

Sunday 25th November 1804.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 26th November 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People variously employed under the boatswain. Making mats, Gaskets etc.

Tuesday 27th November 1804.
Moderate winds and fine weather. Employed as yesterday under the boatswain. Received on board from H.C.S. Elphinstone Charles Freestone & John Stanborough deserters from the H.C.S. Bombay Marine.

Wednesday 28th November 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Got the American biscuit out of the bread room, found two casks entirely eat out by the rats, put the remainder into the lazaretto. Found our bowsprit slightly sprung about 3 or 4 feet within the gammoning.

Thursday 29th November 1804.
Fresh easterly winds mostly fine weather. People working the junk. Carpenter fishing the bowsprit, gunner cleaning small arms.

Friday 30th November 1804.
Winds & weather as before. Employed as most useful. Tradesmen as yesterday.

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Saturday 1st December !804.
Moderate breezes and fine weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Loosed sails to air, worked the metallic pump found it work much the same as usual.

Sunday 2nd December 1804.
Moderate breezes and fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. Received from H.C.S. Essex Charles Welch & Wm Carter boys belonging to the Bombay Marine.

Monday 3rd December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. The Elphinstone having swept an anchor which we supposed was ours, we immediately begun to rouse in our cable into a long boat across it hung the anchor to our boat and carried it an board. Catted the anchor cut the clinch & fresh puddened the ring, bent the cable again.

Tuesday 4th December 1804.
Fresh breezes mostly fine weather. People variously employed under the boatswain as most useful.

Wednesday 5th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship. Received from shore Thos Kimes boy belonging to the Bombay Marine who had last run from the Elphinstone.

Thursday 6th December 1804.
Moderate breezes with fine weather. People variously employed. A ship passed the Island [in] the night.

Friday 7th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. AM Arrived from Mozambique an American ship with 260 slaves on board. PM sailed H.C.S. Elphinstone, Essex, Woodford, Hugh Inglis and Ann extra ship.

Saturday 8th December 1804.
Winds & weather as for days past. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns, otherwise employed under the boatswain.

Sunday 9th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Arrived an American from Sumatra.

Monday 10th December 1804.
Light winds with fine weather. AM Warped about two cables further in shore, moored ship & clapt the service on afresh upon the best bower. Shifted the two Americans by the Governors order, one upon each bow. Broke one of our hawsers several times (sun rope) condemned it.

Tuesday 11th December 1804.
Light breezes and fine weather. P:eople working up junk. Arrived an American brig [Mount Etna] from Mocha. Sailed two American ships.

Wednesday 12th December 1804.
Moderate breezes & fine weather. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed as necessary.

Thursday 13th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed the boatswains.

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Friday 14th December 1804.
Moderate winds and fair weather. People working up junk. Payed the ships company one months wages. Arrived the Albion whaler from New South Wales.

Saturday 15th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Loosed sails to air. Sailed the Mount Etna American brig.

Sunday 16th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 17th December 1804.
Winds & weather as days past. People employed under the boatswain. Carpenter repairing the boats.

Tuesday 18th December 1804.
Moderate winds & hazy weather. People & tradesmen usefully employed.

Wednesday 19th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed under the boatswain.

Thursday 20th December 1804.
Fresh breezes with drizzling rain at times. People employed under the boatswain. Filled our water up. Found the butt eaten through by the rats in several places, condemned it.

Friday 21st December 1804.
Fresh breezes and hazy weather. Employed under the boatswain making points &c.

Saturday 22nd December 1804.
Moderate breezes & fine weather with a heavy swell setting into the roads. Cleaned ship loosed sails to air & exercised the guns.

Sunday 23rd December 1804.
Light airs mostly from the west and with fine weather. AM performed divine service. PM Arrived two whalers from the coast of Peru & H.C.S. ships Travers & Union from England with stores from England.

Monday 24th December 1804.
Light breezes variable with fine weather & a heavy swell. People variously employed under the boatswain. PM Sailed for England the Albion whaler. In getting under weigh she fell athwart our hawser & carried away our bowsprit cap.

Tuesday 25th December 1804.
Moderate breezes with fine weather & a very heavy swell. AM Lost our jolly boats in attempting to land the surf setting so high forced her on the rocks & shattered her to pieces.

Wednesday 26th December 1804.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship, loosed sails to air, got the jib boom in and the bowsprit cap off.

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Thursday 27th December 1804.
Winds & weather as days past. People under the boatswain. Tradesmen as necessary.

Friday 28th December 1804.
Mostly fresh breezes & fine weather. People as necessary. Carpenter making a new cap for the bowsprit. PM Arrived an American ship with provisions from New Port, also an English whaler.

Saturday 29th December 1804.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Loosed sails to air.

Sunday 30th December 1804.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 31st December 1804.
Fresh breezes mostly fair weather. People variously employed. At daylight six sail in sight cleared for action; as soon as H. M. pendant was known salute with 13 guns which was returned with 11. At noon the strangers anchored & proved to be H.M.S. Centurion, H.C. ships David Scott Earl Spencer, Lord Melville, Britannia & Euphrates extra ships. Carpenter making a new bowsprit cap.

Tuesday 1st January 1805. 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People employed working up junk. Carpenter employed on board H.M.S. Centurion.

Wednesday 2nd January 1805.
Moderate breezes & fine weather. People and tradesmen as necessary.

Thursday 3rd January 1805.
Ditto winds with hazy weather. People making points & gaskets. Carpenter as before.

Friday 4th January 1805.
Winds & weather as days past. People & carpenter as yesterday. James [or John] Stymets seaman left the boat when on shore and entered on board H.M.S. Centurion.

Saturday 5th January 1805.
Moderate winds mostly fine weather. Cleaned ship and exercised the guns. PM Arrived an English schooner from Peru. Carpenter on board the Centurion

Sunday 6th January 1805.
Ditto winds with hazy weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM George Daws quartermaster, Wm Walters & Wm Mathews seamen entered on board H.M.S. Centurion.

Monday 7th January 1805.
Fresh breezes hazy weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Carpenter on board the Centurion.

Tuesday 8th January 1805.
Moderate breezes mostly fine weather. Cleaned the lower deck. Carpenter on board the Centurion.

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Wednesday 9th January 1805.
Moderate breezes and fine weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary. Carpenter making a new bowsprit cap.

Thursday 10th January 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed, carpenter finished the bowsprit cap. Got out the jib booms &c. AM sailed two whalers for England.

Friday 11th January 1805.
Moderate breezes mostly fair weather. People employed under the boatswain. PM Run from the ship Wm Carter, Bombay Marine boy. Carpenter caulking the bends.

Saturday 12th January 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship. Received from H.C.S. Britannia new packs of butt staves & an American ensign. Bought a kedge anchor likewise from that ship. AM sent an officer round the fleet to search for Wm Carter, but was unsuccessful. Carpenter as yesterday.

Sunday 13th January 1805.
Moderate breezes and fair weather. At noon sailed for England H.M.S. Centurion with H.C.S. David Scott, Earl Spencer, Britannia, Lord Melville & Euthrates likewise two South Seamen.

Monday 14th January 1805.
Fresh breezes and hazy weather. People variously employed, tradesmen at their respective callings. Payed the ships company one months pay.

Tuesday 15th January 1805.
Moderate winds with small rain at times. People & tradesmen as necessary.

Wednesday 16th January 1805.
Moderate breezes with hazy weather. People employed scraping the outside of the ship, carpenter caulking the larboard quarter. Quarter master repairing the fore topsail, gunner grinding paint, cooper setting up butts.

Thursday 17th January 1805.
Variable winds with hot sultry weather. Employed as yesterday. Carpenter on the starboard quarter, other tradesmen as yesterday.

Friday 18th January 1805.
Light breezes with sultry weather. People variously employed &c. Carpenter caulking, tradesmen at their callings.

Saturday 19th January 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People scraping the ships sides. Carpenter finished caulking outside. Cleaned the lower deck.

Sunday 20th January 1805.
Moderate breezes and fine weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 21st January 1805.
Moderate breezes with squalls & rain at times. Carpenter caulking the quarter deck, gunner painting the outside otherwise employed as necessary.

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At St Helena

Tuesday 22nd January 1805.
Moderate winds with heavy squally & rain during the night. Carpenter & gunner as yesterday. People usefully employed.

Wednesday 23rd January 1805.
Moderate breezes & fine weather. Carpenter as before, other tradesmen as useful. Filled our water up. Cleaned the lower deck.

Thursday 24th January 1805.
Moderate breezes mostly from the eastward with fine weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Carpenter finished caulking the 2nd deck, gunner cleaning small arms. Loosed sails to air.

Friday 25th January 1805.
SE wind mostly fair weather. People under the boatswain. Carpenter caulking the counter which we found to be very bad, gunner as yesterday &c.

Saturday 26th January 1805.
Moderate breezes mostly westerly with hot sultry weather. Cleaned ship, carpenter putting new plank in several parts of the quarter deck. Received sundry ships stores from the shore.

Sunday 27th January 1805.
Moderate breezes at ye SE with fine weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 28th January 1805.
Light winds south easterly with hot sultry weather. Rain in the first part, People under the boatswain, carpenter putting new plank in ye waste.

Tuesday 29th January 1805.
Moderate breezes rain at times. People variously employed. Received a leaguer of rum. Two sail passed in sight to the westward of the Island.

Wednesday 30th January 1805.
Moderate winds with fine weather. Cleaned the lower deck and exercised the guns. Carpenter caulking the main deck. A ship passed a the eastward in sight from our mast head.

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[Start of Sea Log]

Thursday 31st January 1805.
Ditto Winds & weather. People under the boatswain. White washed the lower deck. Carpenter as yesterday. A ship passed to the eastward in sight from the deck, she shewed American colours supposed her to be a whaler.

Friday 1st February 1805. Fine breezes with hot sultry weather. People variously employed, carpenter caulking main deck.

Saturday 2nd February 1805.
Fresh breezes with heavy showers of rain at times. Cleaned ship, carpenter finished caulking. Exercised the guns & small arms.

Sunday 3rd February 1805.
Moderate breezes with heavy showers of rain. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 4th February 1805.
Fresh breezes & fair weather. AM Up top gallant yards & got the ship ready for sea. Carpenter repairing gun carriages, gunner cleaned small arms.

Tuesday 5th February 1805.
Light airs with hot sultry weather. Exercised the guns otherwise under the boatswain.

Wednesday 6th February 1805.
Light breezes with fair weather. At 8am fixed a gun & loosed the fore top sail. NB This log contains only 12 hours.

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H C ship Georgiana

Thursday 7th February 1805.
C&D S51W 41 miles. At noon I came on board for good, unmoored & hove into the service. At ½ past 6 PM weighed in company with the H.C. ships Travers & Union. First part fair, middle & latter cloudy at times. PM At 8 the south western extreme of the Island SSE off shore about 3 miles. At 10 SW point south off shore about 5 or 6 miles. At 12 SW point SbE distance 6 or 7 miles. AM At 2 the Island ESE 3 or 4 leagues. At 4 do do @ ½ or 4 or 5 leagues. At 6 Sugar Loaf EbN Horse Pasture Point E½N @ Speer Rocks ESE offshore 4 or 5 leagues. At 8 the body of Island EbS at 6 or 7 leagues. At the noon the Travers north distance & 3 leagues and Union SE distance & 4 leagues. Roused up the cables & took off the services. Lat 16.21S Lon 6.23W.

Friday 8th February 1805.
C&D S31W 101 miles. Fresh breezes and cloudy weather. PM Payed the cables down. AM People working up junk. Carpenter repairing the cutter. At noon the ships astern at 6 miles. Lat 17.49S Lon 7.28W.

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On a cruise

Saturday 9th February 1805.
C&D S12W 82 miles. Fine pleasant weather with a steady trade. PM At 8 the ships astern about 1 mile. AM At daylight the ships about ½ astern. People employed under the boatswain. Washed the lower deck. At 11 spoke the Union all well. Lat 19.5S Lon 7.46W.

Sunday 10th February 1805.
C&D S8W 97 miles. Fine steady trade with fair weather. AM At daylight the Travers WNW & Union NW distance at 3 miles. Performed divine service. Lat 20.43S Lon 7.59W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Monday 11th February 1805.
C&D S42W 73 miles. Light airs & fine pleasant weather throughout. AM People variously employed. At 9 hove too. Received the letters of both ships. Hoisted out colours, made sail & parted company. Received from H.C.S. Union a deserter belonging to the Island. Lat 21.56S Lon 8.15W.

Tuesday 12th February 1805.
C&D N45E 37 miles. First part light breezes, latter light airs & calms. At ½ past 5pm asked the ships long per thro' viz Travers 8.10W, Union 8.19W, G.P. 8.16W. At ½ 6 PM Travers & Union SWbN distance at 3 or 4 leagues. AM People variously employed, washed the lower deck. Carpenter repairing cutter. Lat 21.37S Lon 7.47W.

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On a cruise

Wednesday 13th February 1805.
C&D N52E 56 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls & rain, middle light airs. AM People employed under the boatswain working up junk. Gunner painting, carpenter as yesterday. Lat 21.12S Lon 7.0W.

Thursday 14th February 1805.
C&D N37E 61 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls & rain at times. AM People working up junk, washed the lower deck. Carpenter as yesterday. Lat 20.29S Lon 6.20W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Friday 15th February 1805.
C&D N37E 100 miles. Fresh breezes & cloudy throughout with squally at times at head sea. AM People working up junk, carpenter & gunner as day past. Lat 19.23S Lon 5.16W.

Saturday 16th February 1805.
C&D N45E 123 miles. Fresh trade throughout with squalls & rain at times & a heavy swell @ ye southward. AM Scraped & cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Gunner & carpenter as yesterday. Lat 17.51S Lon 3.44W.

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On a cruise

Sunday 17th February 1805.
C&D N44E 106 miles. First part fresh breezes, middle & latter more moderate with squalls at times. AM Performed divine service. Lat 16.28S Lon 2.27W.

Monday 18th February 1805.
C&D S75E 14 miles. First & latter parts pleasant breezes and fair weather, middle squally & rain. AM People under the boatswain working up junk. Carpenter paying the bottom of cutter. Lat 16.29S Lon 2.12W.

[Page 100:] H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 19th February 1805.
C&D 81E 35 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with squalls & rain at times. At midnight carried away the fore top mast, spring stay; sun rope spliced it again. AM Scraped & cleaned the lower deck otherwise under the boatswain. Gunner painting the cutter. At ½ past 9 long per mean of 3 light of the sun & moon 3.50 W. of green. Lat 16.26S Lon 1.36W.

Wednesday 20th February 1805.
C&D S79E 14 miles. Thick dirty weather with squalls & rain. AM People working up junk. Gunner painting cutter. At ½ past 9 long per mean of 3 lights of the sun & moon 3.31W. Lat 16.31S Lon 1.22W.ms. At 8 extreme of the Island at SWbS to S½E. AM At 2 saw a sail on our larboard beam showed two lights at the mizen peak which she answered with the same thought, she tacked after us. At day light saw nothing of her. Rope new top sail sheets. Distance 75 miles.

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On a cruise

Thursday 21st February 1805.
C&D N63E 23 miles. Strong breezes throughout with cloudy weather & a heavy sea. AM Scraped & cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary. Lat 16.21S Lon 1.0W.

Friday 22nd February 1805.
C&D S77E 14 miles. Moderate breezes throughout with cloudy weather in the latter part & a heavy swell from the SE throughout. AM Roused the best bower cable up cut off ten fms found the other end so much worn, shifted it end for end, clapt 7fms of ground service & 10 for ½ cable. Lat 16.35S Lon 0.56W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 23rd February 1805.
C&D N80E 33 miles. Moderate breezes and fair weather. PM Payed down the cable. AM Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. At ½ past 10 long per mean of 5 sights of the sun & moon 2.49 24W. Lat 16.26S Lon 0.22W.

Sunday 24th February 1805.
C&D S82E 26 miles. Light breezes and fair weather. AM Performed divine service. At noon bore up for ye Island. Lat 16.30S Lon 0.5E.

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On a cruise

Monday 25th February 1805.
C&D N78W 97 miles. Light breezes throughout with hot sultry weather and smooth water. AM Bent cables and rove the harbour gear. Lat 16.7S Lon 1.34W.

Tuesday 26th February 1805.
C&D West 62. Light airs and fine pleasant weather. AM At ½ past 5 saw the Island bearing WbN½N distance about 20 leagues. At 8 Barn Point WNW 15 or 16 leagues. At noon the Island at WbN½ N to NWbW distance 13 or 14 leagues. Lat 16.8S Lon 2.39W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Wednesday 27th February 1805.
C&D ----. Light airs and fine weather throughout. At sunset Barn Point NWbW½W the extreme to the road WbN distance 9 or 10 leagues. AM At 4 Barn Hill NWbN½W about 5 or 6 miles. At 8 sent our boat in at 9 anchored in ¼ less 16fms and moored ship half a cable each way. No ship in the roads. Sent the deserter on shore. PM down top gallant yards. NB This log contains 36 hours & ends at midnight.

[End of Sea Log]

[Start of Harbour Log]

Thursday 28th February 1805.
Light breezes with flying showers of rain. Got off a boat of water otherwise employed as necessary. Found 6 water butts entirely out in the ground tier, eaten by the rats.

Friday 1st March 1805.
Light winds with fair weather. Employed unreeving the running rigging, struck top gallant yards & masts, do lower & top sail yards & stowed them on the beams ready for going on shore.

Saturday 2nd March 1805.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Struck the top masts & stripped the main top mast. Started most of the water in the fore hold. Washed the lower deck. Anchored from Bengal the Portuguese ship Toringfae.

Sunday 3rd March 1805.
Light winds with flying showers of rain. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Anchored the Fame Portuguese from Bengal.

Monday 4th March 1805.
Light airs with heavy rain at times & hot sultry weather. AM Unmoored and warped into Ruperts Bay. At 1 PM came too with the best bower, carried out the small bower to the westward the kedge to the eastward & the sheet to the northward least water 4 fms when moored Ruperts Fort flag staff SSW¼W Mundens flag staff WbN½N, Banks & Butter Mills Shut in extreme of Ruperts Bay EbN. PM Arrived a Swedish brig from the coast of Africa bound to Buenos Ayres.

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At St Helena

Tuesday 5th March 1805.
Light breezes with rain at times. Employed sending on shore cables & sundry stores. Part of the ships company on shore building tents for the stores &c.

Wednesday 6th March 1805.
Moderate winds with flying showers of rain. Sent on shore the remainder of the sails &c. &c. Arrived the Favorite whaler & the American brig Carrisan.

Thursday 7th March 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed sending on store the stores &c. PM Arrived the American ship Essex.


Friday 8th March 1805.
Fresh breezes and rainy weather with a heavy swell setting into the bay. Loaded a boat of ballast & attempted to land it but found the swell too high. Some hands on shore building tents for the ships company.

Saturday 9th March 1805.
Ditto winds & weather with a heavy surf. Landed part of the boat of ballast the remainder hove over board. In shore some hands building tents.

Sunday 10th March 1805.
Moderate winds with fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. Anchored here the Star South Seaman and a Swedish Company ship from China. Sailed the American brig Carrisan.

Monday 11th March 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Discharged two boats of ballast otherwise employed clearing ship. Sailed the American ship Essex.

Tuesday 12th March 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Discharged two boats of ballast, sent the gun carriages on shore with sundry other stores. Sailed the Swedish ship & brig.

Wednesday 13th March 1805.
Moderate breezes with fair weather. Discharged of ballast, swept the after hold. Draft of water 12F aft 11 fore.

Thursday 14th March 1805.
Moderate winds with mostly fair weather. Employed discharging ballast. Paid the ships company two months pay. Arrived a Swedish ship from China. The dog killed several rats at sundry times.

Friday 15th March 1805.
Winds & weather as per days past. Employed clearing the ship.

Saturday 16th March 1805.
Light winds mostly fair weather. Cleared the ship entirely put the shot & iron work in the hold. The chief officer & six men on board, the remainder of the ships company on shore in tents. PM Anchored here the William & Elizabeth whaler. The dog killed 10 rats during the night.

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H C ship Georgiana

Sunday 17th March 1805.
Light breezes with fine weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Arrived the Inspector whaler. The dog killed seven rats during the night.

Monday 18th March 1805.
Moderate breezes with fair weather and a very heavy surf setting into the bay. At 8am one of the H.C. long boats riding at anchor in the bay broke adrift upset and came on shore. Hauled her up on the beach out of the surf. Lost one engine & hose out of the boat. Took all the ships company round to St James Valley, borrowed the Swedish ships long boat & crew with a kedge anchor & 2 hawsers, likewise got the assistance of the Marine Department from the shore. Went on board the ship, slipt the best & small bower & weighed the kedge on the larboard bow, took the sheet into the hawse & hove the ship further out, making the sheet a head anchor in 11 fathoms water. Carried out the Swedish ships anchor to the eastward & our own kedge to the westward. Sent the people on shore again. An officer with 5 men left on board to smoak the ship. Dog killed 3 rats only.

Tuesday 19th March 1805.
Fresh breezes & fair weather. Smoaked the ship with sulphur, found it had little or no effect on the rats. Found 1 dead & 2 nearly suffocated. Dog killed one of them. Confined in iron Stephen Church for leaving the boat on Monday.

Wednesday 20th March 1805.
Moderate breezes with rainy weather at times. AM weighed our small bower anchor but too much surf to weigh the best bower, carried the small bower out on the larboard bow & returned the Swedes kedge & hawser otherwise employed smoaking the ship. AM Punished Stephen Church with one dozen lashes for the above crime.

Thursday 21st March 1805.
Fresh breezes with heavy rains at times. AM Opened the hatches but found no rats dead.

Friday 22nd March 1805.
Moderate winds & rain at times. AM weighed our best bower anchor and let go again ahead a little on the larboard bow in 12fms. Laid poison in sundry places which the rats totally devoured. Sent the dog on shore on account of the poison.

Saturday 23rd March 1805.
Ditto winds with light showers of rain. Laid more poison down some hands employed on the rigging.

Sunday 24th March 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 25th March 1805.
Fresh breezes with flying showers of rain. Caught 21 rats in a trap. Arrived an American ship from the Cape of Good Hope.

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At St Helena

Tuesday 26th March 1805.
Moderate breezes with flying showers of rain. Caught 7 rats in the trap. Employed setting up the main rigging.

Wednesday 27th March 1805.
Fresh breezes squally with rain at times. No rats caught. Received boat load of ballast.

Thursday 28th March 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Caught 4 rats. Received a boat of water. PM Anchored here the H.C.S. Winchelsea last from seeing the Brunswick safe in sight of Ceylon, she being very leaky parted with the China Fleet in Lat 2N.

Friday 29th March 1805.
Moderate breezes mostly fair weather. Caught 7 rats. Received a boat load of ballast & two do of water. Anchored here an American schooner.

Saturday 30th March 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Caught fifteen rats. Received a boat of water otherwise variously employed. Got off the liquor, some hands striking the tents, carpenter fitting some additional items between decks, condemned two casks of American beef.

Sunday 31st March 1805.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. Sent part of the ship company to church. Caught eight rats.

Monday 1st April 1805.
Fresh breezes with rain at times. Caught 12 rats. Received a boat of ballast and two ditto of water. Carpenter as before, cooper repairing water butts on shore.

Tuesday 2nd April .
Ditto winds & weather. Employed watering & ballasting, tradesmen as before. AM Arrived from China the H.C. ships Glatton, Cirencester, Walmer Castle, Thames, Canton & Marquis of Ely. Lowered colours half mast in consequence of the death [29th March] of Captain [Andrew] Hannay of the Marquis of Ely. PM Anchored from Bengal a Danish ship.

Wednesday 3rd April 1805.
Fresh breezes mostly rainy weather. People & tradesmen employed as before. Caught one rat. Sent an officer & boat to attend Captain Hannay's funeral. Arrived the Diana whaler.

Thursday 4th April 1805.
Moderate winds with rain at times. Caught 7 rats. Collecting ballast, tradesmen as necessary. Arrived a Danish ship from China.

Friday 5th April 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Caught 3 rats. Employed as days past. Arrived the Lady Barlow from Botany Bay.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 6th April 1805.
Fresh breezes mostly rainy weather. Caught seven rats. Received a boat load of water otherwise variously employed about the rigging. Cleaned the lower deck.

Sunday 7th April 1805.
Moderate breezes with rainy weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. Caught seven rats.

Monday 8th April 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Caught two rats. Employed getting off stores. Arrived an American ship.

Tuesday 9th April 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Swayed the top mast up & set the rigging up fore aft.

Wednesday 10th April 1805.
Fresh breezes with drizzling rain. Caught 4 rats. Crossed lower & top sail yards. Swayed the gaff & up &c.

Thursday 11th April 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Caught 6 rats. Received boat of ballast otherwise on the rigging. Sent on shore Joseph Griffith ships steward to the hospital.

Friday 12th April 1805.
Fresh breezes with rainy weather. Caught 6 rats. Received boat of ballast. Some hands employed blacking mast heads &c.

Saturday 13th April 1805.
Moderate winds mostly rainy weather. Caught 4 rats. Received a boat of ballast otherwise employed on the rigging &c.

Sunday 14th April 1805.
Fresh breezes with rainy at times. Caught 2 rats. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Anchored the American ship Semeramis from the Cape of Good Hope with stores for the Island.

Monday 15th April 1805.
Moderate breezes with rain. Employed getting all the ships stores. Payed the ships company one months pay. Arrived the Duke of Portland whaler.

Tuesday 16th April 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. AM Weighed the best bower & small bower. Anchored & bent the top sails otherwise employed getting off stores. Sailed the Lady Barlow & five whalers for England.

Wednesday 17th April 1805.
Fresh breezes with fair weather. Fidded top gallant masts otherwise employed getting off small stores.

Thursday 18th April 1805.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Bent the courses made the spare sails up afresh & payed them in the hold otherwise employed preparing to move ship.

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At St Helena

Friday 19th April 1805.
Moderate winds with slight showers of rain. AM unmoored at ½ past 8 weighed & stood to ye eastward. At 10 tacked & stood in for the roads. At noon anchored with the best bower in 12fms & moored ship bearing flag staff at the castle SSE¼E. Anchored a Portuguese ship from China.

Saturday 20th April 1805.
Light breezes mostly fair weather. Loosed sails to air, washed the lower deck otherwise employed as necessary, sailed for England the Duke of Portland whaler.

Sunday 21st April 1805.
Mostly light airs throughout with fair weather. Sent part of the people to church. AM Anchored an American last from the Isle of France.

Monday 22nd April 1805.
Moderate breezes with fair weather. Some hands in the hold otherwise employed under the boatswain upon the rigging.

Tuesday 23rd April 1805.
Fine breezes & pleasant weather. Employed as yesterday and cleaning ship. Sailed the American ship.

Wednesday 24th April 1805.
Fresh breezes with fair weather. Got our guns carriages on board. Employed scraping & cleaning them, carpenter the jolly boat.

Thursday 25th April 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Mounted the quarter deck guns some hands employed in the hold. Carpenter as yesterday.

Friday 26th April 1805.
Moderate winds with rain at times. Scraped & cleaned the deck, gunner cleaning small arms, carpenter as days past.

Saturday 27th April 1805.
Light winds mostly fair weather. Loosed sails to air, exercised the guns &c. otherwise employed cleaning ship.

Sunday 28th April 1805.
Light breezes with rain at times. Sent part of ships company to church.

Monday 29th April 1805.
Light winds with fair weather. Employed under the boatswain some hands picking oakum. AM Anchored here from England H.M. brig L'Espoir. Also arrived an American from China.

Tuesday 30th April 1805.
Moderate breezes mostly cloudy weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Carpenter repairing the boats, gunner painting the masts. Two ships in sight to leeward supposed to be the store ship & man of war.

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H C ship Georgiana

Wednesday 1st May 1805.
Moderate breezes with fine weather. People variously employed under the boatswain, tradesmen as yesterday. Condemned part of the last cask of American beef being unfit for use. At sunset the Warren Hastings bore west about 9 miles, could not see any thing of the man of war.

Thursday 2nd May 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Cleaned ship inside & out, loosed sails to air & exercised the guns otherwise as necessary. AM Saw the man of war from the deck bearing NW. PM Anchored H.M. ship Mediator of 44 guns. Warren Hastings out of sight of the Island.

Friday 3rd May 1805.
Fresh breezes easterly with flying showers of rain. People variously employed. Tradesmen at their respective callings. Condemned the long boat. PM Anchored the H.C.S. Warren Hastings.

Saturday 4th May 1805.
Moderate winds mostly fair weather. Cleaned the lower deck, loosed sails to air & exercised the guns.

Sunday 5th May 1805.
Moderate breezes with mostly fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 6th May 1805.
Fresh breezes and fair weather. Set up the main & main top mast rigging otherwise employed under the boatswain. Gunner cleaning small arms. Sailed H.M. brig L'Epoir on a cruise. Sailed two Portuguese ships & one American.

Tuesday 7th May 1805.
Fresh breezes mostly fair weather. AM Cleaned the lower deck, people & tradesmen as necessary. Received from H.C. Stores 3 leaguers of rum & sundry other stores. Received from Warren Hastings out of their cargo 10 casks of beef, 10 do pork & 3 flour.

Wednesday 8th May 1805.
Moderate breezes with fair weather. People employed about the rigging, some hands filling up the wet provisions with pickle. Carpenter repairing the gun carriages. Ships steward returned from the hospital. Got off from the shore our new main & fore sails.

Thursday 9th May 1805.
Light winds with fair weather. AM cleaned the lower deck, loosed sails to air, carpenter as yesterday. PM Anchored H.M. brig L'Espoir from a cruise & whaler in the night for England.

Friday 10th May 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People chiefly employed under the boatswain, tradesmen as necessary.

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At St Helena

Saturday 11th May 1805.
Fresh breezes with fair weather. Cleaned ship inside and out. Loosed the sails to air & exercised the guns.

Sunday 12th May 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 13th May 1805.
Moderate breezes with fine weather. Received sundry small stores. People variously employed under the boatswain, carpenter on the gun carriages.

Tuesday 14th May 1805.
Fresh breezes mostly fair weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary. Payed the ships company one months pay. Shipped Michel Kelly ordinary seaman.

Wednesday 15th May 1805.
Moderate breezes mostly fair weather. People variously employed. Received 4 chaldrons of coal from the Warren Hastings. Carpenter as days past.

Thursday 16th May 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Received two boat loads of water otherwise variously employed.

Friday 17th May 1805.
Moderate winds & fair weather. People under the boatswain, carpenter finished repairing the gun carriages. Condemned the old fore sail & bent the second best.

Saturday 18th May 1805.
Light winds and fair weather. Cleaned the lower deck, loosed sails to air & exercised the guns. PM Anchored the Georgiana South Seaman.

Sunday 19th May 1805.
Moderate breezes and fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 20th May 1805.
Fresh breezes & rain. AM Received sundry bales of hay likewise a Sergeant and nine men from the shore as marines. Condemned the old main sail bent the second best. Run from the ship Martin Emery seaman & John Stanborough, Bombay Marine boy.

Tuesday 21st May 1805.
Light breezes with fair weather. Received more hay from the shore. Employed getting ready for sea. Board Mr Emery seaman & J. Stanborough, Bombay Marine boy. NB This log contains only 12 hours.

[End of Harbour Log]

[Start of Sea Log]

[Page 112:]

H C ship Georgiana

Wednesday 22nd May 1805.
C&D S37W 95 miles. Light breezes variable with fine weather. At 3PM unmoored ship & hoisted in the cutter. Received 4 more men from the garrison & James a free black. At ½ past 6 I came on board with dispatches sealed not to be opened till out of sight of the Island. Weighed made sail. At 10PM The SW point of the Island SEbE distance 11 or 12 miles. AM At 8 opened my instructions in presence of my chief officer. Unbent the cables and stowed the anchors. I take my departure from the SW point allowing it to lay in 16.4S long 5.55W. Lat 17.20S Lon 6.55W.

Thursday 23rd May 1805.
C&D S25W 160 miles. A fresh trade with pleasant weather throughout. AM People employed under the boatswain, gunner grinding paint, carpenter repairing the cutter, shifted mizen top sail with the best. Lat 19.39S Lon 8.W.

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Towards Benguella

Friday 24th May 1805.
C&D S9W 148 miles. A strong trade with fine weather. AM People under the boatswain and fitting a new main top sail. Tradesmen as yesterday, exercised the marines at small arms. At AM long per mean of 4 sights of the sun & moon 8.29 37W of Greenwich. Lat 21.59S Lon 8.33W.

Saturday 25th May 1805.
C&D S11W 72 miles. Fresh part light airs variable latter fine increasing breezes with fair weather and smooth water. AM Washed the lower deck & exercised the great guns and small arms. Lat 23.3S Lon 8.47W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Sunday 26th May 1805.
C&D South 97. Light breezes with fair weather for the most part & a heavy swell at ye west. AM Performed divine service. Lat 24.40S Lon 8.47W.

Monday 27th May 1805.
C&D S31E 53 miles. First part light airs & calms latter an increasing breeze. AM People under the boatswain, gunner cleaning small arms. Lat 25.25S Lon 8.17W.

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Towards Benguella

Tuesday 28th May 1805.
C&D S25E 54 miles. First & latter parts moderate breezes and fair weather, middle part calm with a long swell at the westward throughout. AM Fitted the new fore sail otherwise employed under the boatswain working up junk. Soldiers cleaning small arms, gunner grinding paint, carpenter repairing cutter. Lat 26.20S Lon 7.51W.

Wednesday 29th May 1805.
C&D S73E 90 miles. Light airs throughout & fine weather with a long westerly swell. AM Washed the lower deck & exercised small arms with powder, gunner as yesterday, carpenter as necessary. Lat 27.4S Lon 6.15W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Thursday 30th May 1805.
C&D N89E 62 miles. Light breezes throughout with pleasant weather. AM People employed working up junk, gunner painting the cutter & grinding of paint. Carpenter making trough for cattle. Lat 27.7S Lon 5.5W.

Friday 31st May 1805.
C&D N88E 119 miles. An increasing breeze with rain in the latter part. At 6PM saw the moon only 26 hours old. AM Swayed the main yard higher up otherwise as necessary working up junk. Lat 26.54S Lon 2.52W.

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Towards Benguella

Saturday 1st June 1805.
C&D N84E 180 miles. Strong breezes with pleasant weather. AM Washed the lower deck otherwise as necessary. Allow to have steered a little to eastward. Lat 26.34S Lon 0.28E.

Sunday 2nd June 1805.
C&D N79E 179 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with squalls at times & a heavy swell from the SW. At 1PM Long per O&A by mean of 5 sights 5.25E of Greenwich. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Dark gloomy weather with a tumbling sea. Allow 2 degrees to the eastward for swell. Lat 25.57S Lon 3.44E.

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Monday 3rd June 1805.
C&D N70E 178 miles. Fresh breezes with squally & rain at times with a confused swell throughout, ship rolling very much. AM People working up junk &c. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 24.53S Lon 6.49E.

Tuesday 4th June 1805.
C&D N45E 162 miles. First part fresh breezes latter decreasing with cloud weather and a heavy swell from the westward. At ¼ past 1PM long per O&A 6 40 30 east. AM Fitted the new main sail & working up junk. Exercised the guns with powder. Lat 23.1S Lon 8.54E.

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Towards Benguella

Wednesday 5th June 1805.
C&D N34E 128 miles. Moderate breezes with squalls at times & cloudy weather with drizzling rain. AM Hoisted in the jolly boat to repair. Hauled up the cable & shifted the outer sheet for an outer best bower & the old best bower for a small bower. Bent the sheet cable for an inner best bower, cut off the outer sheet 15fms being much worn. Lat 21.18S Lon 10.12E.

Thursday 6th June 1805.
C&D N23E 84 miles. Light breezes variable throughout. At 4PM long per mean of three sights of the O&A 6 16E. AM Washed the lower deck otherwise employed working up junk. Carpenter repairing the jolly boat, gunner painting outside of the ship. Lat 24.0S Lon 10.47E.

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Friday 7th June 1805.
C&D N31E 175 miles. First part moderate middle & latter increasing to a strong breeze with a long swell at ye southward. At 4PM long per mean of 4 sights of the O&A 8 33 eastward. AM People as yesterday. At 1 the tiller rope was carried away, rove a new one. At 10 main top sail tie broke, spliced it, forced to cut off about 3fms bad. Set main sail. Lat 17.32S Lon 12.21E.

Saturday 8th June 1805.
C&D N45E 142. First part fresh breeze latter moderate with hazy weather. At PM Michael Kelly ordinary seaman fell overboard from the fore top mast head. Hoisted out the jolly boat & picked him up. AM Bent the bower cables, cleaned the lower deck. Gunner painting &. Lat 15.56S Lon 14.5E.

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Towards Benguella

Sunday 9th June 1805.
C&D N56E 49 miles. First part moderate breezes & fine weather. Middle & latter light airs with very hazy weather. Sounded 200fms no ground. At 7PM head the surf & saw breakers on our starboard beam, shortened sail & kept away NE sounded ground at 38fms fine sand, shortly after saw the land bearing SSE. AM At daylight the extreme of the land bore at extreme to ½E off shore about 5 leagues. A large hummock ESE. 52fms fine sand. At noon the extreme from NEbE to SSW high land. A remarkable hill appearing above the high land in the form of a Turks cap bearing ESE distance offshore 7 or 8 miles. Baffling winds. Ground 45fms fine dark sand, coral rock & shells. The weather to unsettled to perform divine service. Lat 15.26S Lon 14.48E.

Monday 10th June 1805.
C&D N18E 71 miles. Fine weather throughout. Thought we saw breakers proved to be a busted whale carcass. PM At 4 the extreme of the land from NE½E SWbS distance offshore 6 or 7 miles. At sunset extreme at NEbE to SWbS. AM At sunrise the extreme at ESE to SbW high land, offshore about 4 leagues. At 8 extreme at ENE to SW. off shore 7 or 8 miles. A large bay open bearing SbE. No ground 120fms. At 10 Tygers Bay SSE½E. At noon extreme at SbW to NE½N offshore about 2 leagues. Lat 14.23S Lon 15.10E.

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Tuesday 11th June 1805.
C&D N11E 69 miles. Light breezes and cloudy weather throughout. PM At 4 extreme of the land at NE½N to SWbS distance offshore about 2 leagues. Hauled a little in for land thinking we saw people launching a canoe. Got 66fms hard ground. At sunset extreme at EbS to SbW, a bluff point SEbS & a remarkable round hill SbE, offshore 7 miles. At 10 extreme at NNE½E to SEbS about 6 miles off. AM At daylight extreme at EbN to SWbS distance offshore about 4 leagues. At noon extreme at SWbW to EbN distance offshore about 5 miles. People employed under the boatswain, hoisted out the jolly boat. Lat 13.8S Lon 5.24E.

Wednesday 12th June 1805.
C&D ----. First part fine breezes with fair weather, middle & latter light baffling winds. PM At 4 extreme of the land at SWnW½W to ENE offshore about 2 leagues. At sunset from NE to SW about 2 leagues. At 11 land from EbS to SWbS distance about 3 leagues. At midnight Nermost[sic] extreme. AM At daylight extreme at EbS½S to SWbS offshore about 5. At 8 extreme at EbN½N to SWbW. No ground 100fms. St Phillip's; Bonnet EbS½S 3 or 4 leagues. At noon Extreme at ENE to SWbW½W offshore about 4 miles. No ground 120fms. St Phillip's Bonnet SE½E about 2 leagues. Several vessels at anchor SE½E.

Light breezes northerly & fair weather. Standing into the bay. Steering SEbE. At 3PM The Master attendant came on board and at 4 anchored with the best bower in 10fms water. Saluted the Fort with 9 guns which was returned with the same number. Moored ship ½ a cable each way, best bower to the sea, extreme of the land at ENE½E to NWbW½W. The Flag Staff 1½ mile found riding here 2 ships & 7 brigs under Portuguese colours on the Fort SE¼E St Phillip's Bonnet WNW¼W offshore about draft water 13.8 F 14.8 A NB This log contains 36 hours.

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At Benguella

Thursday 13th June 1805.
Light land & sea breezes with hot sultry weather & heavy fogs in the night. Roused the cables up out of the hold & coiled them down between decks otherwise variously employed clearing the hold. PM Arrived a brig from Lisbon with stores, she left it the 17th March. Lat 12 33 South.

Friday 14th June 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Employed clearing the hold ready for cattle, cooper repairing water casks other tradesmen at their respective callings. PM Sailed a Portuguese ship for Angola.

Saturday 15th June 1805.
Land & sea breezes. Employed watering the ship & clearing the hold. All ready to receive the cattle.

Sunday 16th June 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Performed divine service.

Monday 17th June 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. AM The Governor & suit came on board to dinner. Saluted with 13 guns, at sunset he returned on shore. Saluted him with the same number of guns. Fort returned salute each time.

Tuesday 18th June 1805.
Light land & sea breezes. Employed receiving cattle.

Wednesday 19th June 1805.
Fresh land & sea breezes with fair weather. Employed receiving cattle, hay, wood &c.

Thursday 20th June 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed getting ready for sea, cleared hawser. Number of cattle shipped 86. NB This log contains only 12 hours.

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Friday 21st June 1805.
C&D N45W 55 miles. PM Unmoored & hove short. At sunset saluted the Fort with 9 guns which was returned by the same number. At 7 weighed & made sail. At 8 the ships in the roads SbW St Phillip's Bonnet W½N. Middle part fresh breezes latter light variable winds with cloudy weather. AM Stowed the anchors & unbent the cables. I take my departure from the Fort of Benguella allowing it to lay in Lat 12 33S Lon 13 44 10E. 2 cattle died. Lat 11.54S Lon 13.4E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 22nd June 1805.
C&D N85W 129 miles. Westerly variable & cloudy, fresh breezes mostly throughout with hazy weather. AM Found the mizen mast sprung a little below the jaws of the gaff. Employed woolding it. Scrubbed the hammocks, scraped & cleaned the lower deck and swabbed the beams & sides with hot vinegar. Lat 11.38S Lon 10.54E.

Sunday 23rd June 1805.
C&D S89W 128 miles. Fresh breezes with dark gloomy weather. Killed one bullock for the ships company. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 11.35S Lon 8.44E.

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Towards St Helena

Monday 24th June 1805.
C&D S80W 130 miles. Moderate breezes variable from south to SW. Light squalls at times with cloudy weather throughout. AM Shifted fore top sail with new one. Sailmakers employed repairing the old one. People variously working up junk. 2 bullocks died. Lat 11.54S 6.33E.

Tuesday 25th June 1805.
C&D S64W 112 miles. Fine pleasant breezes and fair weather throughout. AM Shifted fore top sail with old one. Carpenter caulking the main deck. People variously employed under the boatswain. Lat 12.45S Lon 4.38E.

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Wednesday 26th June 1805.
C&D S65W 122 miles. Moderate breezes with hazy weather throughout. AM Scraped & cleaned the lower deck. People working up junk. Carpenter as yesterday. Exercised the great guns & small arms. One bullock died. Lat 13.30S Lon 2.44E.

Thursday 27th June 1805.
C&D S57W 154 miles. First part light airs middle & latter fresh breezes with squalls at times. AM People employed picking oakum & sundry jobs. One bullock died. Lat 14.48S Lon 0.51E.

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Towards St Helena

Friday 28th June 1805.
C&D S70W 164 miles. Strong breezes variable throughout. AM Bent the cable otherwise employed as necessary. One bullock died. Allow to have steered a little to leeward. Lat 15.39S Lon 2.8W.

Saturday 29th June 1805.
C&D -----178 miles. Fresh breezes & fair weather. AM At ½ past 8 saw the Island bearing WbS distance 10 or 11 leagues. At 11 Barn Point WNW 6 leagues. At noon Barn Point WNW George & Shore Island in one WbS½S distance offshore 2 or 3 leagues. Got the anchors over the side. PM At ½ past 2PM. Butter Mill Point fired to bring us too run in & hailed the Fort & passed on At 3 anchored abreast of the valley in 5fms wore away & moored ship. Strong puffs of wind during the night. Found riding here Admiral Rainer in H.M.S. Trident. All the East Indiamen weigh in May & sundry others. One bullock died. NB This log contains 36 hours.

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H C ship Georgiana

Sunday 30th June 1805.
Fresh breezes and hazy weather. AM discharged 77 head of live cattle on account of the Honourable Company. Sent on shore the party of marines. PM Anchored here H.M. ship Athenean & 9 East Indiamen also a whaler.

Monday 1st July 1805.
Moderate breezes & fine weather. Employed clearing the hold &c. otherwise as necessary. Anchored here the Ocean Botany Bay & a whaler.

Tuesday 2nd July 1805.
Fresh breezes mostly with rain. Discharged the honourable Company Grain otherwise cleaning the ship.

Wednesday 3rd July 1805.
Moderate winds rainy weather. AM Payed the cables down into the hold otherwise as necessary.

Thursday 4th July 1805.
Fresh breezes with hazy weather. AM shifted our birth a little more to the westward & moored again. Payed the spare sail down Loosed sails to dry otherwise as necessary.

Friday 5th July 1805.
Moderate winds & rain. People variously employed gunner grinding paint, tradesmen at their respective callings.

Saturday 6th July 1805.
Fresh breezes and rain. Set the lower & top mast rigging up. Gunner grinding paint. Received a spar from the H.C.S. Lord Castlereagh to make a mizen mast.

Sunday 7th July 1805.
Moderate winds with rain at times. Sent part of the ships company to church. Sailed H.M. Trident, Mediator & one South Seaman for England.

Monday 8th July 1805.
Moderate with hazy weather. Loosed sails to air. Gunner painting the Cabin, carpenter making a new mizen mast otherwise variously employed under the boatswain.

Tuesday 9th July 1805.
Fresh breezes with rain at times. People variously employed tradesmen as yesterday. Entered on board H.M.S. Trident. Thomas Sheppard and Edward Thomas seaman.

Wednesday 10th July 1805.
Moderate breezes with rain. People & tradesmen as yesterday. Joseph Griffiths ships steward entered on board H.M.S. Trident. Received from the Admiral, Robt Waite as steward in his room. Anchored a Swedish from China & drifted off the bank again.

Thursday 11th July 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy. People variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen as before. Sailed for England Admiral Raines with H.M. ship Trident & Athenean, 34 Indiamen 3 whalers & the Swedish ship that drifted off.

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At St Helena

Friday 12th July 1805.
Fresh breezes with flying showers of rain. Sent on shore all our empty water casks. Carpenter finished the mizen mast, struck the mizen top masts & down cross jack yard. Rigged sheers with the same & got the mizen mast out.

Saturday 13th July 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Stept the new mizen mast & pointed the mizen top mast through. Some hands under the boatswain. Received one boat of water, gunner painting the stern. Arrived the H.C.S. Admiral Gardner from England. Unbent the courses & top sails.

Sunday 14th July 1805.
Fresh breezes & light showers of rain. Received two boats of water. Anchored a Swedish ship from China, sailed a Danish & Portuguese.

Monday 15th July 1805.
Moderate breezes with flying showers of rain. Fidded the mizen top mast. Received sundry ships stores from the Admiral Gardner otherwise variously employed. Gunner painting the outside, cooper repairing water butts. Paid the ships company two months pay.

Tuesday 16th July 1805.
Light breezes with rain. Employed receiving stores from the Admiral Gardner. Gunner painting &c. This log contains 12 hours.

Wednesday 17th July 1805.
PM At 4 sailed the H.C.S. Phoenix & Calcutta for Bengal and Warren Hastings for Bencoolen. At 5 seeing a great quantity of smoke on board the Calcutta supposed she was on fire. Got an engine from the store with an officer & 20 men. Slipped our cables, bent sails & made sail to leeward. At 8PM spotted boat which came from the Calcutta who informed us all was safe. Hove too hoisted in our boats & made sail to the eastward. At 8 PM bearing of the Island SE distance about 8 miles. Moderate breezes with flying squalls & rain during the night. AM At daylight saw the land Stone Top being SWbS about 10 or 12 leagues. At 1PM anchored with the sheet in 15fms of water, steadied with a kedge found riding here H.C.S. Admiral Gardner & a Swedish ship. NB This Log contains 36 hours.

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Thursday 18th July 1805.
Moderate breezes & rainy weather. Run a hawser out to the end of our best bower cable, weighed the sheet & warpt the ship in. Weighed both bowers & dropt further out into 10fms moored ship ½ a cable each way.

Friday 19th July 1805.
Fresh breezes with rain. People variously employed under the boatswain, gunner painting outside.

Saturday 20th July 1805.
Strong breezes with flying showers of rain. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise variously employed AM Anchored here the H.C.S. Lady Castlereagh from England with stores for the Island. Also H.M. Ship Calcutta for a convoy. PM Anchored H.C.S. Indus from Madras a Hambro ship from Bombay.

Sunday 21st July 1805.
Fresh breezes & rain. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Anchored a ship under Prussian colours prize to H.M.S. Calcutta.

Monday 22nd July 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed on the rigging &c. Gunner painting, carpenter making capstan bars. Anchored the American brig Eliza with a flag of truce from the Cape of Good Hope.

Tuesday 23rd July 1805.
Moderate winds with heavy rain. People under the boatswain, tradesmen as necessary. Received two 18pds carronades from H.C.S. Lady Castlereigh.

Wednesday 24th July 1805.
Fresh breezes with rain at times. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise under the boatswain. Received sundry stores from the Lady Castlereigh. Anchored the African South Seaman.

Thursday 25th July 1805.
Moderate winds with heavy rain. People variously employed. Sailed the Hambro ship.

Friday 26th July 1805.
Fresh breezes & rain. Employed as necessary, carpenter repairing the 2nd deck.

Saturday 27th July 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned the lower deck, cleaned hawser &c.

Sunday 28th July 1805.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Sent part of ships company to church. Anchored and American whaler.

Monday 29th July 1805.
Fresh breezes & rain. Employed receiving stores from the Lady Castlereigh. Carpenter putting new plank in quarter deck.

Tuesday 30th July 1805.
Fresh breezes with flying showers. Employed receiving casks of bread from the Lady Castlereigh stowing it on shore otherwise as necessary.

Wednesday 31st July 1805.
Strong breezes with hazy weather. People working up junk. Received some raisins from the American brig, sparred the African an old main top mast steering sail.

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At St Helena

Thursday 1st August 1805.
Fresh breezes & rainy weather. People working up junk. Received some stores from the Lady Castlereigh. PM Confined in irons John Hughes midshipman for drunkeness & mutinous behaviour on the quarter deck. AM Arrived the Fox whaler.

Friday 2nd August 1805.
Strong breezes with flying showers of rain. People employed as yesterday. Sent on board H.M.S. Calcutta John Hughes midshipman.

Saturday 3rd August 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. Cleaned the lower deck. Received sundry stores from the H.C. Stores. AM Sailed H.M. ship Calcutta with 6 other ships for England. PM Anchored an American from Mocha.

Sunday 4th August 1805.
Strong breezes with hazy weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 5th August 1805. Ditto winds with rain. Employed watering, gunner cleaning small arms, sailmakers repairing sails. Shipped Jos Johnson seaman.

Tuesday 6th August 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. Cleaned the lower deck, filled all our water up. Received some stores from the Admiral Gardner. AM sailed the American. A sail passed the Island in sight of the roads shewed no colours.

Wednesday 7th August 1805.
Fresh breezes & rain. People under the boatswain, gunner cleaning small arms other tradesmen as necessary. Payed the ships company.

Thursday 8th August 1805.
Moderate breezes with rain. Bent the stay sails &c. Tradesmen at their respective callings, some hands on shore screwing hay. AM Anchored an American whaler.

Friday 9th August 1805.
Moderate with hazy weather. Received sundry bales of hay, some hands employed on shore screwing do. Cleaned the lower deck. Shipped Mr Mcguire midshipman. [He was discharged on 21st August.]

Saturday 10th August 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Bent top sails & courses. Received sundry bales of hay on board. PM Cleaned hawser, condemned the old main top gallant sails, set to pack hay. Stowed the sheet anchor.

Sunday 11th August 1805.
Westerly winds with hazy weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Anchored the St Vincent whaler, sailed the American brig Eliza for the Cape of Good Hope.

Monday 12th August 1805.
Strong SW winds with hazy weather. People employed as days past. Received some more hay on board. PM Cleaned hawser.

Tuesday 13th August 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed under the boatswain, tradesmen at their respective callings.

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Wednesday 14th August 1805.
S Easterly winds & hazy weather. Cleaned ship inside & out. PM Sailed an American whaler.

Thursday 15th August 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. People working up junk, PM Anchored an American whaler.

Friday 16th August 1805.
Fresh breezes & cloudy weather. People variously employed. Sailmakers making tarpaulins. Received some stores from the Admiral Gardner Anchored the Britannia South Seaman.

Saturday 17th August 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Cleaned the lower deck & received a leaguer of rum from the Hon'ble Co. Stores.

Sunday 18th August 1805.
Fresh breezes & fair weather. At daylight six sail in sight of the Island. Called the hands to quarters run the guns out & loosed sails. Anchored 6 South Seaman. Secured the guns & furled sails.

Monday 19th August 1805.
Moderate breezes & cloudy weather. People employed under the boatswain.

Tuesday 20th August 1805.
Moderate winds & cloudy weather. Washed the lower deck &c. Received sundry stores from the shore. Carpenter caulking the quarter deck.

Wednesday 21st August 1805.
Fresh breezes easterly & hazy weather. Employed as necessary. AM Anchored two American South Seamen.

Thursday 22nd August 1805.
Fresh breezes and cloudy weather. People under the boatswain, tradesmen as necessary.

Friday 23rd August 1805.
Fresh breezes with rainy weather. Scraped & cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary.

Saturday 24th August 1805.
Fresh breezes & fair weather. AM Cleared hawser, loosed sails to air exercised the guns &c.

Sunday 25th August 1805.
Strong gales & heavy rain. Down top gallant yards. PM Got the sheet anchor over the side struck top gallant masts & hoisted the boats in.

Monday 26th August 1805.
Strong puffs of wind with heavy rain. People employed under the boatswain. PM Anchored a Danish ship from Bengal.

Tuesday 27th August 1805.
Moderate winds with rain at times. AM Fidded top gallant masts & hoisted out the cutter otherwise employed under the boatswain. PM Sailed two American whalers.

Wednesday 28th August 1805.
Fresh breezes & rainy weather. Cleaned the lower deck, tradesmen as necessary. Received two small spars from the Lady Castlereigh. AM arrived the H.C.S. Skelton Castle from Bombay.

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Thursday 29th August 1805.
Moderate winds & rain. People variously employed, loosed sails to air. PM Anchored H.C.S. Worcester from Bengal.

Friday 30th August 1805.
Ditto winds with fair weather. People under the boatswain, carpenter on board the Skelton Castle. AM Anchored the Favourite schooner from the Cape of Good Hope.

Saturday 31st August 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Loosed sails to air and cleaned the lower deck. Anchored an American brig from Muscat & a Swedish ship from China. Sailed the Dane.

Sunday 1st September 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 2nd September 1805.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. People under the boatswain. Gunner cleaning small arms. PM Sailed the American brig. A sail passed the Island in the night.

Tuesday 3rd September 1805.
Winds & weather as per days past. People as necessary. Received sundry stores from the H.C. Store House.

Wednesday 4th September 1805.
Fresh breezes and fair weather. People variously employed. PM Sailed the Swede.

Thursday 5th September 1805.
Strong puffs from SE with fair weather. People & tradesmen as days past. AM Anchored H.C.S. Teignmouth from Bengal with dispatches for England. PM Sailed for the South Seas 4 whalers.

Friday 6th September 1805.
Strong breezes & cloudy weather. People as necessary. AM Anchored from Bencoolen H.C.S. ships Tottenham & Lord Eldon.

Saturday 7th September 1805.
Moderate winds & fair weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise under the boatswain. Carpenter still on board the Skelton Castle. Gunner cleaning small arms.

Sunday 8th September 1805.
Strong breezes & cloudy weather with rain. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Sailed H.C.S. Teignmouth. Run from the ship Martin Emery seaman.

Monday 9th September 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. People under the boatswain. Received some stores from the H.C.S. Lady Castlereigh. Shipped Pierce Foley seaman.

Tuesday 10th September 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship, filled our water &c. Carpenter as days past.

Wednesday 11th September 1805.
Moderate winds & hazy weather. People & tradesmen variously employed. Loosed the sails to air.

Thursday 12th September 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Cleaned the lower deck. Carpenter returned on board. Gunner cleaning small arms.

Friday 13th September 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Crossed top gallant yards, loosed fore top sail & hoisted blue peter. Received a sergeant, corporal, drummer & 11 privates as marines. Discharged Js Jennings seaman. Paid the ships co one months pay.

Saturday 14th September 1805.
Moderate breezes & rain. AM Unmoored ship & hove in to the service. Shipped two seamen.

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H C ship Georgiana

Sunday 15th September 1805.
C&D S35W 66 miles. Squally weather with a heavy head sea. Lying too for ye Lady Castlereigh. PM Unbent the cables & stowed the anchors. At 7 the extreme of the Island at EbN to SWbW off shore 2 or 3 leagues. At 8 PM SW point SSW 3 leagues. At 10 the southern most point SEbE distance off shore 3 or 4 leagues. AM At 6 saw the Island bearing ENE distance 17 or 18 leagues. At 8 opened my sealed orders in presence of the Chief Officer. The ship pitching too much to perform divine service. Stake my departure at 10PM allowing it to lay in Lat.16.4S Lon.5.55W. Lat.16.58S Lon.6.34W.

Monday 16th September 1805.
C&D S5W 106 miles. Moderate breezes throughout with squalls & small rain at times. AM Employed trimming ship & otherwise under the boatswain. Lat.18.42S Lon.6.43W.

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Tuesday 17th September 1805.,br> C&D S6E 85 miles. Light breezes mostly with squalls & rain in the middle part. AM Roused the cables up & took off the services. Longitude per O&A at 9AM 6.33W. At ½ past 10 hove too & shewed our colours. At 11 sent the jolly boat on board the Lady Castlereigh for letters. At noon the boat returned, hoisted them up & made sail. In company as before. Lat.20.4S Lon.6.34W.

Wednesday 18th September 1805.
C&D S41E 67 miles. Light breezes and fine weather throughout with smooth water. Admiral Gardner WNW 6 miles, could not discern the Castlereigh AM Scrubbed hammocks, washed the lower deck & exercised the great guns & small arms. At 9 AM longitude per O&A 6.13.45W of Greenwich. Lat.20.51 Lon.5.47W.

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Thursday 19th September 1805.
C&D ---- 42 miles. Light variable breezes with fair weather for the most part. AM Variously employed under the boatswain &c. Lat.20.51S Lon.5.2W.

Friday 20th September 1805.
C&D N53E 90 miles. First part light airs latter an increasing breeze with fine weather. AM People working up junk. Soldiers picking oakum, sailmakers making a new min gallant steering sail. Lat.19.56S Lon.3.44W.

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Towards Benguella

Saturday 21st September 1805.
C&D N40E 110 miles. Squally weather throughout with rain at intervals. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary. Lat.18.31S Lon.2.29W.

Sunday 22nd September 1805.
C&D N21E 91 miles. Thick cloudy weather with frequent squalls & heavy rain in the night. At ½ past 3pm saw a strange sail bearing NNE½E, made sail after her. At 7pm hauled our wind, the stranger steering so much to the wind. AM The weather too squally to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat.17.6S Lon.1.54W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Monday 23rd September 1805.
C&D N48E 121 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with squally weather. AM Shifted mizen top sail with 2nd best main top gallant sail with new ones & fore do with 2nd best otherwise employed under the boatswain. Carpenter repairing the boats. Marines picking oakum. Lat.15.42S Lon.0.20W.

Tuesday 24th September 1805.
C&D N54E 120 miles. Dark gloomy weather & fresh breezes. PM Up top gallant yards. AM People working up junk. Sailmakers repairing the old mizen sail. Main top gallant sail & fore do condemned the old lower steering sail. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat.14.39S Lon.1.20E.

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Towards Benguella

Wednesday 25th September 1805.
C&D N70E 116 miles. Fresh breezes with frequent squalls & a head sea. AM Cleaned lower deck, soldiers cleaning small arms &c. &c. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat.13.39S Lon.3.12E.

Thursday 26th September 1805.
C&D N65E 73 miles. Light breezes mostly fraught with squalls in the middle part and hazy weather. AM People working up junk, gunner painting the cutter, carpenter repairing the boats. Lat.12.51S Lon.4.20e.

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H C ship Georgiana

Friday 27th September 1805.
C&D N81E 66 miles. Fine pleasant weather wind very variable. AM People under the boatswain shifted mizen top sail with old one. Sailmakers employed reducing the 2nd best mizen top sail. Punished Charles Freestone boy & Francis Drummer with 6 lashes each on the backside for gambling. Lat.12.27S Lon.5.27E.

Saturday 28th September 1805.
C&D S86E 99 miles. Moderate variable winds with cloudy weather & smooth water. AM Washed the lower deck & swabbed the beams with vinegar. Exercised the guns. Do small arms. Lat.12.30S Lon.7.9E.

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Towards Benguella

Sunday 29th September 1805.
C&D N79E 100 miles. Variable winds with flying squalls & rain at times. AM Mustered the people at their quarters the weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Lat.12.11S Lon.8.51E.

Monday 30th September 1805.
Light breezes with squalls in the middle part. AM Sailmakers on the mizen top sail, gunner painting the boats. People under the boatswain. Lat.11.54S Lon.10.20E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 1st October 1805.
C&D S77E 86 miles. First & latter parts light variable winds middle strong breezes and hazy weather throughout. AM People under the boatswain, marines packing oakum. Sailmakers as yesterday. Tradesmen as necessary, cleared the lower deck & swabbed the beams with hot vinegar. Lat.12.15S Lon.11.46E.

Wednesday 2nd October 1805.
C&D S76E 110 miles. Light breezes with hazy weather & very smooth water. PM At 3 longitude per mean of 6 sights of the O&C 10.20E. Lat.12.24S Lon.13.35E.

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Towards Benguella

Thursday 3rd October 1805.
C&D S69E 72 miles. Light breezes and fine weather throughout. AM Got the anchors over the sides &c. otherwise employed as necessary. At 6 saw the land at SbE to SeEbS off shore about 13 leagues. At noon the extreme of the land from NE to SbW distance 8 of 9 leagues. Lat.12.50S Lon.14.44E.

Friday 4th October 1805.
Light breezes & fair weather. PM At 4 the extreme of the land at SEbE to SW½S distance about 7 leagues. At sunset extreme at SW to east a remarkable high mountain in land SSW off shore about 5 leagues. AM At daylight extreme at SW to E½N offshore about 3 miles. At 8 extreme at NW to NbE St Phillips Bonnet E½N. A brig in shore getting under weigh which anchored in the roads shortly after us. At 10 St Phillips Bonnet EbE. At noon do south the shipping ESE. At ¼ past 1 PM Anchored in 10ft saluted the Fort with 9 guns, returned with 5. Sent the 3rd Officer on shore to report the ship. Moored ship half a cable each way. Bearing St Phillips Bonnet WbN½N Standing in for the Bay. Fort SE½S & Two Gun Battery head off the Bay SbW½N off shore about 2 miles. Found 9 brigs & 1 ship in. NB. This log contains 36 hours.

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[Start of Harbour Log]

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H C ship Georgiana at Benguella

Saturday 5th October 1805.
Light land & sail breezes. Peoples and tradesmen variously employed. AM I went on shore & waited upon the Governor. On landing the Fort saluted me with 7 guns the ship returned the same number.

Sunday 6th October 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. AM Performed divine service.

Monday 7th October 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Did the rigging up fore & aft otherwise as necessary.

Tuesday 8th October 1805.
Winds & weather as per days past. Received two boat loads of water otherwise employed cleaning ship.

Wednesday 9th October 1805.
AM Fresh sea breezes. PM Calm with heavy seas. Scrubbed hammocks, bags &c. otherwise as necessary. Sailed a brig for Angola.

Thursday 10th October 1805.
Moderate land & sea breezes with vivid flashes of lightning during the night. AM The Governor & suite came on board, saluted him with 13 guns, the Fort returned the salute. PM Saluted the Governor as before on his leaving the ship, Fort returned the salute.

Friday 11th October 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Received two boats of water, employed as necessary. Sailed a brig to the I'rod[?] for salt.

Saturday 12th October 1805.
Winds & weather as before. Received a boat of wood. Employed under the boatswain. Confined Wm Uppingshaw marine for breaking his liberty & disobedience of orders.

Sunday 13th October 1805.
Fresh land & sea breezes. AM Performed divine service.

Monday 14th October 1805.
Moderate breezes with sultry weather. Received two boats of wood. Roused the sheet & small bower cables up out of the hold & coiled them between decks. AM Punished Wm Uppingshaw marine with 6 lashes at the gangway.

Tuesday 15th October 1805.
Moderate winds & fair weather. Roused the best bower cable up & coiled it between decks otherwise employed clearing the hold for cattle.

Wednesday 16th October 1805.
Light land & sea breezes. Received boat of hay, do one of wood otherwise employed as necessary.

Thursday 17th October 1805.
Fresh breezes. Received one boat of wood do two of hay. Anchored a Portuguese brig from Rio.

Friday 18th October 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Received 16 bullocks otherwise employed as necessary.

Saturday 19th October 1805.
Winds & weather as for days past. Received 18 bullocks & one boat of hay.

Sunday 20th October 1805.
Moderate land & sea breezes with sultry weather. AM Made the signal for sailing & unmoored ship. Received 56 bullocks.

Monday 21st October 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Repeated the signal for sailing. Received 20 bullocks total of bullocks 110. Mr Maguire midshipman left the ship with liberty. NB This log contains only 12 hours.

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H C ship Georgiana towards St Helena

Tuesday 22nd October 1805.
C&D N67W 34 miles. Moderate breezes & calms with fair weather. PM Saluted the Fort with 9 guns, returned with the same number. Weighed with light breeze. At ½ past 5 hoisted the boats in. At ¼ before 6 weighed, stowed the anchors & made all snug. About 4 St Phillips Bonnet WSW½W extreme at west to EbN. AM At daylight bearings of the land from south to SE. At noon from SbS to EbS distance 13 or 14 leagues. Unbent the cables & roused the small bower up to air otherwise as necessary. I take my departure from the bearings at sunset. Lat.12.37S to 13.44.10E. Lat.12.24S Lon.13.12E.

Wednesday 23rd October 1805.
C&D N68W 74 miles. First & latter parts light airs middle moderate with fine weather throughout. 2 bullocks died, killed one of the ships bullocks, one of the bullocks died. AM Roused up the best bower to air took off the service & cut off 18fms of the outer end it being very much worn. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat.11.57 Lon.12.2E.

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Thursday 24th October 1805.
C&D N73W 85 miles. First & latter parts light airs variable middle steady breeze with cloudy weather. one bullock died. AM People working up junk. One bullock died. Lat.11.48S Lon.10.39E.

Friday 25th October 1805.
C&D N70W 87 miles. Light breezes with hazy weather and smooth water. One bullock died. AM People working up junk picking oakum &c. Lat.10.50S Lon.9.15E.

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Towards St Helena

Saturday 26th October 1805.
C&D N82W 96 miles. Moderate breezes with hazy weather throughout. One bullock died. AM People variously employed under the boatswain picking oakum. Lat.10.28W Lon.7.38E.

Sunday 27th October 1805.
C&D S75W 119 miles. An increasing breeze with cloudy weather. AM At 9 punished John Harford marine with 18 lashes at the gangway for insolence to his Corporal & the Commanding Officer of the watch. Performed divine service. One bullock died. Lat.10.57S Lon.5.41E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Monday 28th October 1805.
C&D S62W 141 miles. Cloudy weather with squalls and a very heavy sea. AM Fitted a preventer pair of shrouds to the fore mast on the larboard side & knotted the fore mast shroud. Some hands picking oakum. One bullock died. Lat.12.0S Lon.3.41E.

Tuesday 29th October 1805.
C&D S50W 146 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with hazy weather & a hollow sea. At 10 past 1 PM long per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon 3.24.45E. AM People variously employed under the boatswain working up junk. Six bullocks died in the course of these 42 hours. Killed the other of the ships bullocks. Lat.13.8S Lon.1.33E.

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Towards St Helena

Wednesday 30th October 1805.
C&D S60W 181 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with cloudy weather & a confused sea. PM Carried away the outer bobstay strop round the bowsprit. Got a man one out & set it up again. AM People employed working up junk, picking oakum &c. Lat.14.32S Lon.1.9W.

Thursday 31st October 1805.
C&D S69W 197 miles. Strong breezes with hazy weather and a good deal of sea. AM People working up junk exercised the great guns. Two bullocks died. Lat.15.41S Lon.4.20W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Friday 1st November 1805.
C&D ---- 110 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls at times & cloudy weather throughout. Bent the cables & unstowed the anchors. AM At 5 saw the Island bearing NWbW distance about 4 leagues. At ¼ before 10 anchored with ye best bower in 10fms. Delivered 91 bullocks on account of the Hon'ble Co. Found riding here H.C. ships Worcester, United Kingdom, Skelton Castle, Huddart, Harriett, Ocean & Lord Keith & one whaler. This log contains 36 hours & ends at midnight. Lat.---- Lon.----.

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[Start of Harbour Log]

Saturday 2nd November 1805.
Light breezes mostly from the sea with fine weather. AM Weighed & warpt further to the westward came too in 9fms, moored ½ a cable each way.

Sunday 3rd November 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Disembarked the marines consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, 1 drummer & 11 privates. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 4th November 1805.
Moderate breezes from the SE with hazy weather. Employed cleaning the hold of the dung &c. Received from the Harriett a shroud hawser for fore rigging consisting of 60fms. Unbent the top sails & coursers, sailmakers repairing fore top sail, caulker caulking the larboard side. PM sailed for England the Worcester & all the convoy ships.

Tuesday 5th November 1805.
Moderate breezes with rain at times. Employed cleaning the hold &c. Sent on shore part of our water butts. Carpenter & sailmakers as yesterday, gunner grinding paint.

Wednesday 6th November 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent on shore the remainder of the water butts. Got off from the shore our new cable & spliced it for an outer sheet. Coiled the cables in the hold, got top gallant mast, down on deck, tradesmen at their respective callings, carpenter caulking starboard.

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At Helena

Thursday 7th November 1805.
Moderate winds & fine weather. Struck main & fore top masts, striped the fore mast & fore mast and erected sheers for getting out the fore mast. Tradesmen usefully employed.

Friday 8th November 1805.
Strong puffs at times with rain. AM Got the fore mast out and sent it on shore to be inspected, it appearing to be rotten in several places and most of the hoops started. Tradesmen as days past.

Saturday 9th November 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. Got off 2 boat loads of water, carpenter on shore. Employed on the fore mast, gunner grinding paint, cooper setting up butts, sailmakers repairing main top sail otherwise employed under the boatswain.

Sunday 10th November 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ship company to church. AM Anchored the Indispensable whaler from the Coast of Peru.

Monday 11th November 1805.
Winds & weather as before. People variously employed fitting new fore rigging. Scraping the ship's side, watering &c. Carpenter fishing the fore mast, other tradesmen as necessary.

Tuesday 12th November 1805.
Fresh breezes with rain at times. People & tradesmen employed as yesterday. AM Anchored the Hope Hon'ble hired packet from Bengal with dispatches for England.

Wednesday 13th November 1805.
Fresh breezes and hazy weather. Carpenter on shore on the fore mast. Cooper setting up butts, gunner painting the stern, sailmakers repaired main sail. Received two boats of water otherwise under the boatswain.

Thursday 14th November 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People & tradesmen as before. Payed the ships company two months pay. PM Anchored H.M. ship Howe with the Marquis of Wellesley passenger from Bengal. Saluted the Man of War with 13 guns. Returned with 15 saluted the Marquis with 19 guns on his quitting the ship. Discharged John Long not being a seaman.

[The 'passenger' was the Marquis of Wellesley to whom the Georgiana gave a 13-gun salute. Richard Colley Wellesley, 1760-1842, was the brother of the Duke of Wellington.]

Friday 15th November 1805.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. People & tradesmen as per days past. Sailed England the Hope packet.

Saturday 16th November 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. People under the boatswain. Carpenter on the fore mast, gunner painting the sides. PM Anchored the Eliza (cartel) brig from the Cape of Good Hope with the officers & crew of the H.C. ship Brunswick taken in India by Admiral Lenois.

Sunday 17th November 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. People employed landing stores from H.M. ship Howe for the use of the Island.

Monday 18th November 1805.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. People variously employed, carpenter on shore. Gunner painting outside, sailmakers repairing small sails.

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Tuesday 19th November 1805.
Light breezes & fair weather. People employed on sundry jobs, tradesmen as before. AM Anchored the Iris South Seaman.

Wednesday 20th November 1805.
Light airs & calm with hot sultry weather. People and tradesmen employed as yesterday. AM The Marquis of Wellesley embarked on board H.M. ship Howe saluted him with 10 guns, likewise saluted the ship with 15 guns returned with the same number. Sailed for England H.M. ship Howe & Indispensable whaler.

Thursday 21st November 1805.
Moderate winds & cloudy weather. People and tradesmen employed as days past.

Friday 22nd November 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. PM Got the fore mast off from the shore. Stept the masts got the trestle trees on & the rigging over head otherwise as necessary. Sailmakers repairing small sails.

Saturday 23rd November 1805.
Fresh breezes with rain at times. Set the fore rigging up and swifted it in. Found the collar of the fore stay on the bowsprit stranded, fitted a new one. Pointed the top masts through, got the rigging over head &c. otherwise as necessary.

Sunday 24th November 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 25th November 1805.
Moderate winds and hazy weather. People and tradesmen variously employed. PM Arrived from England H.M. Frigate Narcissus with secret dispatches.

Tuesday 26th November 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Employed rattling dozen the rigging and otherwise as necessary. Gunner painting the masts.

Wednesday 27th November 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. Fidded top gallant masts & set the rigging up otherwise employed as necessary. PM two sail passed the Island about 10 leagues off. Appeared to be a line of battle ships & frigate shewed no colours, at ½ past 9 sailed H.M.S. Narcissus under strict orders. Shipped Jos Hillatt seaman.

Thursday 28th November 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People variously employed under the boatswain. Gunner painting the inside of the deck. Sent an officer & boats crew to ship the Eliza brig (cartel) further in shore, also to take her sails from her & strike her masts in consequence of an embargo being laid on her by Government.

Friday 29th November 1805.
Fresh breezes & fair weather. People variously employed cleaning deck &c. Gunner painting. PM Bent the top sails & courses.

Saturday 30th November 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed cleaning ship &c. AM Anchored from Bengal the H.C.E. ship Union with stores for the Island.

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At Helena

Sunday 1st December 1805.
Strong breezes & hazy weather. Sent of the ships company to church.

Monday 2nd December 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People employed under the boatswain. Six hands assisting the Union to discharge the H.C's. cargo.

Tuesday 3rd December 1805.
Fresh breezes & hazy weather. Received sundry stores from the H.C. Stores. At ½ past 1am an alarm was made from Bank's Battery for a strange sail, beat to quarters. At 8am anchored the H.C. ships Baring and Airly Castle. Mr North Governor of Ceylon passenger in the Baring saluted him with 19 guns on his going on shore.

[The Honourable Frederick North 1766-1827, was the 5th Earl of Guilford and first governor of Ceylon from 1798 to 1805 and was on his voyage back to England.]

Wednesday 4th December 1805.
Moderate winds & rain at times. AM Washed the lower deck. Received two chaldrons of coals. 6 hands on board the Union.

Thursday 5th December 1805.
Ditto winds mostly fair weather. Bent top gallant sails. AM Anchored the Mary Ann American whaler from the South Seas. Sent an officer with 2 boat crews, hawsers &c. to warp her in on our larward bow in consequence of the embargo.

Friday 6th December 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People variously employed, 6 hands on board the Union. AM Anchored from Desolation Island the Seringnapatam South Seaman.

Saturday 7th December 1805.
Moderate winds & fine weather. Cleaned ship loosed sails to air & exercised the gums, 6 hands on board the Union.

Sunday 8th December 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Anchored the Eliza whaler form Delagoa Bay.

Monday 9th December 1805.
Winds & weather as before. Employed filling up our water, got all the sails from the shore, loosed sails to air. Carpenter repairing the jolly boat, sailmakers repairing small sails, 6 hands on board the Union.

Tuesday 10th December 1805.
Winds & weather as per days past. People variously employed, gunner cleaning small arms, carpenter as yesterday the people on board the Union as before.

Wednesday 11th December 1805.
Moderate breezes with mostly fair weather. Found the chince of a leaguer of rum broke and 40 gallons to have leaked out. People & tradesmen employed as per yesterday.

Thursday 12th December 1805.
Strong winds with fair weather. Washed the lower deck otherwise as per days past. PM Two sail in sight to windward of the Island.

Friday 13th December 1805.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. People employed as per days past. Sailmakers making hammock cloths, 6 hands on board the Union. AM Anchored the H.C.E. ships Euphrates & Northumberland store ships.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 14th December 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship otherwise employed as necessary. Paid the ships company one months pay. Found a cask of flour entirely destroyed by the rats.

Sunday 15th December 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 16th December 1805.
Winds & fair weather throughout. People variously employed, tradesmen at the respective callings, gunner painting the jolly boat.

Tuesday 17th December 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed getting off our puncheons of bread. AM Anchored the Favourite schooner (American) from the Cape of Good Hope.

Wednesday 18th December 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed as per days past, gunner cleaning small arms, tradesmen as necessary.

Thursday 19th December 1805.
Light breezes & fine weather. People & tradesmen employed as before.

Friday 20th December 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Washed the lower deck otherwise employed as necessary.

Saturday 21st December 1805.
Light breezes and fair weather. People & tradesmen as before. Loosed sails to air. PM Anchored the Caledonia whaler as ye South Seas & the Adventure American ship from Calcutta.

Sunday 22nd December 1805.
Light winds and fine weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Anchored the Mountezuma @ Batavia & the two Brothers @ Isle de France both American. [The meaning here is not clear but appears to refer to the Montezuma from Batavia and Brothers from Isle de France - both from America.]

Monday 23rd December 1805.
Moderate winds & fair weather. People employed under the boatswain. AM Anchored H.M. Frigate Medusa from Calcutta with dispatches for England bringing an account of the Marquis Cornwallis' death in India.

[Charles Edward Cornwallis, 1st Marquis Cornwallis, Governor-General of India, died 5th October 1805 aged 66.]

Tuesday 24th December 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People and tradesmen employed as most useful. At daylight St James' Fort fired 68 minute guns to the memory of the Marquis Cornwallis. Hoisted the colours half mast. AM Anchored the Ferret whaler from Port Jackson.

Wednesday 25th December 1805.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Sailed for England H.M. Frigate Medusa.

Thursday 26th December 1805.
Moderate winds & fair weather. Cleaned ship inside Y out.

Friday 27th December 1805.
Strong puffs of wind with rain at times. People and tradesmen variously employed.

Saturday 28th December 1805.
Light airs variable throughout with rain at times. Cleaned ship throughout otherwise as necessary.

Sunday 29th December 1805.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church. A sail passed the Island. Anchored the Eolus from China (America). Sent an armed boat to row guard during the night.

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At Helena

Monday 30th December 1805.
Light winds with hot sultry weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Two sail in sight to windward.

Tuesday 31st December 1805.
Fresh breezes with hot sultry weather. Discharged J. Harrison, gunner to go on board the Northumberland as gunner. Gave the Northumberland 9 tons of ballast. AM Anchored the American schooner Roger William from Rhode Island.

Wednesday 1st January 1806.
Fresh breezes & pleasant weather. Gave the Northumberland 9 tons of stone ballast otherwise employed as necessary.

Thursday 2nd January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed as per days past. Gave the Northumberland 2 tons of ballast. AM Anchored from Tranquebar the American ship Triumphant of Salem.

Friday 3rd January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People & tradesmen usefully employed. Gave the Northumberland 9 tons of stone ballast.

Saturday 4th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship throughout. Gave the Northumberland 11 tons of ballast otherwise employed levelling the hold &c.

Sunday 5th January 1806.
Winds & weather as days past. Sent part of the ships company to church. Two sail in sight to windward.

Monday 6th January 1806.
Strong puffs of wind & fair weather. People variously employed levelling the hold & under the boatswain. AM Anchored a Dane from the Cape of Good Hope.

Tuesday 7th January 1806.
Moderate winds & pleasant weather. People as yesterday, loosed the sails to air.

Wednesday 8th January 1806.
Light airs with hot sultry weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as useful, gunner painting the cutter.

Thursday 9th January 1806.
Moderate breeze with rain at times. People. AM People and tradesmen employed as days past. AM a sail passed the Island in sight from the deck, shewed no colours. Received the Northumberland's cutter for a light boat.

Friday 10th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed, gunner painting the cutter. A sail past in sight5 of the Island. At ½ past 3 PM A Mr Fullerton, an officer in the 19 Light Dragoons was bathing off Munders Rock he was attacked by a shark which bit his leg off by the joint of the knee. Our boat being near to him picked him up and brought him on board. Sent for medical assistance from all the Hon'ble ships in the roads which proved ineffectual, he expired a few minutes before 4. Owing to his great loss of blood. Hoisted our colours half mast as did all the ships in the roads. He was passenger in the Baring.

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Saturday 11th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People and tradesmen as before. AM Anchored the Adventurer whaler from the Coast of Peru. At 4 PM a boat with an officer attended the funeral of Mr Fullerton. A sail in sight to windward of the Island.

Sunday 12th January 1806.
Strong puffs at times with rainy weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Anchored the Perseverance & Elliot whalers.

Monday 13th January 1806.
Moderate breeze with rain at times & hot sultry weather. People employed usefully. Loosed sails to air.

Tuesday 17th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People & tradesmen as necessary. Paid the ships company one months pay. Made Hugh Simmonds gunner formerly quartermaster & John Thompson quartermaster formerly seaman.

Wednesday 15th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People as per days past. AM washed the lower deck.

Thursday 16th January 1806.
Moderate breezes & hazy weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen at their respective callings.

Friday 17th January 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People & tradesmen at their respective callings. PM Anchored the Lively whaler.

Saturday 18th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship inside & out & exercised the guns. PM Anchored the Ranger whaler.

Sunday 19th January 1806.
Moderate breezes and fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Anchored the Brothers whaler.

Monday 20th January 1806.
Strong puffs of wind at times with fair weather. People employed under the boatswain, gunner cleaning small arms.

Tuesday 21st January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Received orders from the Commodore to shift our birth to the westward of all the shipping to prevent any ship from sailing without orders from Government. At 3 PM weighed & made sail to eastward found our best bower cable much rubbed about 8fms from the clinch east about 4fms off and spliced it again. At 4 tacked, & at ½ past 5 came to an anchor in 24fms a little to the eastward of Break Nuts Valley. Moored ship as before 15 men from the Baring assisted. PM Anchored a Portuguese brig from Rio Janeiro & the Milford country ship from Bombay.

Wednesday 22nd January 1806.
Strong breezes & fair weather. AM Tripped the small bower and dropped a little further to ye westward. Received orders to hold our selves in readiness for sea upon search service. Set the rigging up fore & aft. Received 48 casks of American provisions. 25 hands assisting from the Baring. Started all our bread out of casks into the bread room & sent the casks on shore to be filled with water.

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At Helena

Thursday 23rd January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed filling water &c. Cooper on shore setting up & repairing water casks. At 8am Anchored H.M. brig L'Espoir with the news of the capture of the Cape, it having capitulated the 10th inst. Also of the destruction of the Napoleon French privateers, who was run on shore by the Narcissus frigate. Received a countercommand of the orders received yesterday. At 4 PM sailed for England H.M. brig L'Espoir.

Friday 24th January 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. AM Anchored H.M. Frigate Leda from Cape of Good Hope for a supply of stores for the use of the fleet & garrison at the Cape. Long boat employed getting off Cape stores to the frigate.

Saturday 25th January 1806.
Moderate winds & fine weather. Boat & crews employed as yesterday, cooper on shore, other tradesmen at their respective callings.

Sunday 26th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed as yesterday.

Monday 27th January 1806.
Moderate breezes & fine pleasant weather. Variously employed getting off stores for the use of the ship. POM Sailed H.M. frigate Leda for the Cape of Good Hope.

Tuesday 28th January 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed filling our bread casks with water in the after hold otherwise as necessary. AM Anchored from Bombay H.C.E. ship Retreat & informed us of a gallant action for all on 21st October 1805 by our grand fleet, 20 sail of enemy taken, but poor Admiral Nelson killed. Sailed Euthrates & Northumberland store ship for the Cape of Good Hope.

[Battle of Trafalgar took place and Admiral Lord Nelson was killed on 21st October 1805.]

Wednesday 29th January 1806.
Moderate winds & fine weather. Delivered to the H.C. Store the 48 casks of provisions received on board last Wednesday. A ship passed the Island in sight of the shipping in the roads, shewed no colours.

Thursday 30th January 1806.
Light airs and calms at times with hot sultry weather throughout. People variously employed under the boatswain. Loosed sails to air. Gunner painting the out sides otherwise as necessary.

Friday 31st January 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People & tradesmen as before. The embargo being taken off sailed 13 ships, Americans & whalers. PM Anchored the Favourite Whaler.

Saturday 1st February 1806.
Fresh breezes with rain at times. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise variously employed, gunner completed painting the outside. Anchored a prize brig Privateer (French) taken by H.M.F. Narcissus. PM Sailed for England H.C.E. ships Union & Retreat & 5 whalers. Ditto for the southward two whalers three sail past the Island.

[The French privateer was called Prudent.]

Sunday 2nd February 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 3rd February 1806.
Light airs & hot sultry weather with rain at times. People and tradesmen variously employed. PM Sailed the Danish ship for Copenhagen.

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Tuesday 4th February 1806.
Fresh breezes with flying showers of rain & sultry weather throughout. People and tradesmen variously employed. Gunner cleaning small arms. AM Anchored the Aurora whaler. PM A sail in sight to windward of the Island.

Wednesday 5th February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed. AM Anchored here an American slave ship last from the Cape of Good Hope. PM Anchored the H.C.S. Devaynes from Penang. Sailed the brig prize of the Narcissus for the Cape of Good Hope. [This is probably the French prize Prudent.]

Thursday 6th February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People & tradesmen as per days past.

Friday 7th February 1806.
Fresh breezes with hazy weather. People & tradesmen variously employed as necessary.

Saturday 8th February 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Cleaned ship inside & out, exercised the guns &c. AM Anchored here an American bark from Batavia.

Sunday 9th 1806.
Heavy gusts of wind with rain at times. Performed divine service.

Monday 10th February 1806.
Do winds & weather. People employed as most useful. PM Sailed the Roger William American schooner, also a bark.

Tuesday 11th February 1806.
Moderate winds with cloudy weather & rain at times. AM Anchored from Calcutta the American brig Carrivan. People and tradesmen employed as necessary.

Wednesday 12th February 1806.
Moderate breezes with rainy weather at times. Loosed the stay sails to air otherwise variously employed. AM Sailed the Carrivan. Sent John Friend carpenter to the hospital.

Thursday 13th February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather, loosed the square sails to air, otherwise employed as useful.

Friday 14th February 1806.
Moderate breezes & pleasant weather. People variously employed. Paid the ships company one months pay.

Saturday 15th February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned the lower deck, loosed sails to air & exercised the guns. People otherwise as necessary.

Sunday 16th February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 17th February 1806.
Winds & weather as before. Loosed sails to air, otherwise as necessary. A sail in sight to windward.

Tuesday 18th February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Loosed the stay sail to air, otherwise as most useful. Gunner cleaning small arms, A sail passed the Island during the night. Another in sight to windward.

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Wednesday 19th February 1806.
Light breezes with hot sultry weather throughout. Washed the lower deck & loosed sails to air, otherwise as necessary. Am Anchored the Alexander from Port Jackson and the Robart from West Patagonia South Seaman.

Thursday 20th February 1806.
Moderate breezes and pleasant weather. People variously employed, gunner cleaning small arms. AM Anchored the Charlton whaler. Received some biscuit for ships use.

Friday 21st February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Variously employed, sailmakers making new hammock cloths.

Saturday 22nd February 1806.
Winds & weather as before. Cleaned ship loosed sails & exercised the guns.

Sunday 23rd February 1806.
Moderate winds & rainy weather. Sent part of the people to church.

Monday 24th February 1806.
Strong breezes and cloudy weather. People under the boatswain, gunner cleaning small arms, sailmakers making hammocks &c. Anchored the Hy. C. Ship Carmarthen from Bengal.

Tuesday 25th February 1806.
Moderate breezes with hot sultry & rain at times. People & tradesmen as yesterday. AM Anchored the Kingston whaler. Sailed the American slave ship.

Wednesday 26th February 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed as days past.

Thursday 27th February 1806.
Strong gusts of wind & heavy rain, latter part fair. People variously employed. AM Anchored the Dubuc whaler.

Friday 28th February 1806.
Moderate winds mostly fair weather. People and tradesmen as per days past, loosed sails.

Saturday 1st March 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship and exercised the guns &v.

Sunday 2nd March 1806.
Strong winds with gloomy weather. Sent part of the ships company of church.

Monday 3rd March 1806.
Moderate winds & fine weather. Loosed the sails. People working up junk. PM Drifted off the Bank the H.C.S. Airly Castle.

Tuesday 4th March 1806.
Moderate breeze Y rain at times. People & tradesmen as necessary. PM Anchored the Airly Castle.

Wednesday 5th March 1806.
Moderate winds & fine weather. Cleaned the lower deck, loosed the sails &c.

Thursday 6th March 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People & tradesmen as per days past.

Friday 7th March 1806.
Moderate breezes & rain at times. People employed as necessary.

Saturday 8th March 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned ship and exercised the guns. AM Anchored an American ship from Bengal.

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Sunday 9th March 1806.
Light breezes and pleasant weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Anchored an American ship from Manilla.

Monday 10th March 1806.
Moderate winds with rainy weather. People variously employed working up junk &c. Sailed an American ship.

Tuesday 11th March 1806.
Ditto winds mostly fair weather. People as yesterday. Sailed an American ship. AM Hoisted the colours half mast in consequence of the death of Captain Hall passenger in the Delaynes.

Wednesday 12th March 1806.
Light breezes mostly fair. Cleaned ship, loosed sails &c. At 4 PM a boat with an officer attended the funeral of Captain Hall.

Thursday 13th March 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People under the boatswain, gunner cleaning small arms, tradesmen as necessary.

Friday 14th March 1806.
Light airs variable with hot sultry weather. People & tradesmen usefully employed. AM Paid the ships company one months pay. Discharged Mr Robert Crout surgeon & Thomas Green captain's steward. Shipped Mr James Rennie as surgeon & Thomas Dixon seaman.

Saturday 15th March 1806.
Light variable winds & hot sultry weather. Cleaned ship, exercised the guns & loosed sails to air. Tradesmen at their respective callings.

Sunday 16th March 1806.
Light breezes with hot sultry weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

Monday 17th March 1806.
Fresh breezes with hot sultry weather & rain. People under the boatswain, tradesmen at their respective callings.

Tuesday 18th March 1806.
Strong breezes with rainy weather. People as necessary. Down top gallant yards & masts. At 7 PM parted the best bower close to the clinch the small bower brought us up, let go the sheet under foot.

Wednesday 19th March 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. AM swept our best power. Anchor with an hawser & weighed it with a long bower. Brought it along side & catted it otherwise as necessary.

Thursday 20th March 1806.
Fresh breezes & rain at times. At 10 AM weighed & stood out to the eastward found the outer part of the best bower very bad cut off [blank] fms & bent it again. At 1 PM Tacked & stood in again & at 4 Anchored with best bower in 14fms abreast of James' Valley, moored ship. Anchored three cartels with Dutch prisoners from the Cape, also the Sirus[?] whaler.

[One of these cartel ships was the Bellona on board of which was Jan Willem Janssens 1762-1838, the Governor General of the Cape from 1803 to 1806 when the Dutch were defeated and General Janssens was, among others, transported back to Holland in a reciprocal (cartel) hostage arrangement.]

Friday 21st March 1806.
Fresh breezes & rainy weather. People & tradesmen as necessary. AM Anchored two cartels from the Cape.

Saturday 22nd March 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Cleaned ship & exercised the guns. Gunner cleaning small arms.

Sunday 23rd March 1806.
Moderate winds mostly fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church.

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Monday 24th March 1806.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. People variously employed, gunner cleaning small arms, loosed sails. PM Sailed the Bellona cartel with General Janssens for Holland.

Tuesday 25th March 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. AM Sailed four cartels for Holland, People under the boatswain. Arrived a transport from the Cape in charge of a Lieut. Sailed for England in 5 hours again. Wednesday 26th March 1806.
Moderate winds & rainy weather. Washed the lower deck otherwise employed as necessary.

Thursday 27th March 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People & tradesmen as necessary.

Friday 28th March 1806.
Fresh breezes & fair. AM Loosed sails otherwise as necessary. At 6 PM Parted our small bower about 6fms without the hawse.

Saturday 29th March 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Swept the end of the cable hove it in & spliced it, otherwise employed cleaning ship.

Sunday 30th March 1806.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. AM Anchored the Ave Prinsdan Danish ship from China.

Monday 31st March 1806.
Fresh breezes mostly fair weather. People variously employed under the boatswain. Received orders to unmoor. NB This log contains only 12 hours.

Tuesday 1st April 1806.
C&D -----. PM At 11 unmoored & hove into half a cable. At 4 received on board on account of the Company one long garrison, 12 pound gun, one short, 6 pound with iron carriage & one 12 pound carronade & carriage, also 89. 6 pound shot. Received 2 hawsers & long bower. made the longboat fast astern with 1 of the hawsers. Also Lieut Milne & 6 longboat hands. At 7 weighed with a moderate breeze & stood round to leeward in order to land the ordnance at Sandy Bay. During the night strong breezes with hazy weather. Lat. ---- Lan. ----.

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H C ship Georgiana

Wednesday 2nd April 1806.
C&D ----. Fresh breezes mostly fair weather with a heavy confused sea. PM At 6 having fetch'd a little to windward of the SW point & finding a great swell setting in shore, bore up, thinking it impossible to land the guns at Sandy Bay. AM At 11 anchored with best bower in 6fms & steadied the ship with a kedge, found the same ships as before in the roads. Shifted main top gallant sail & mizen top sails with best, otherwise employed as necessary. Found our small boat which we left at the moorings lost. Anchored in 6 fathoms. Note this Log contains 36 hours. Lat ---- Lon ----.

Thursday 3rd April 1806.
Moderate breezes and fair weather. Employed under the boatswain & cleaning ship. Carpenter repaired the long boat.

Friday 4th April 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People as yesterday. Surf being low to windward prepared to weigh. This Log contains only 12 hours.

Saturday 5th April 1806.
C&D ---- 58 miles. At noon weighed with a moderate breeze at ESE and stood out to the east and received Lieut Milne & the 6 boatloads. Left the large small bower behind. At sunset the extreme of the land at S½W to SW. At midnight southernmost extreme SSW. Passed between St George's Island & shore Island. AM At 11 hove too off Sandy Bay hoisted out our longboat, sent her away with the 12 pound carronade & carriage, made sail & stood offshore. Lat ---- Lon ----.

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Off St Helena

Sunday 6th April 1806.
Light breezes with fair weather throughout. PM At 1 the boat returned with gun &c. being unable to land do on account of the surf hoisted in the gun & boat & made sail offshore. At sunset extreme at WNW to NEbS Sandy Bay NbW distance 2 leagues. AM At ½ past 7 made the signal to Sandy Bay to know if landing was practicably, answer yes - hoisted out the boat & sent the carronade again. At noon she returned for the other gun but we had drifted so far to the westward it was too far to send her. A very strong current, sounded twice 35fms rocky bottom. Made sail towed the long boat.

Monday 7th April 1806.
Light breezes with hazy weather. PM At sunset extreme from NW½W to NEbE Sandy Bay NNE. AM At 6 sent the long boat away with the iron. 6PM &c. & the 89 shot. At Noon the extreme at NW to NEbN distance offshore about 3 miles.

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H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 8th April 1806.
Light breezes and strong easterly current throughout. AM At ½ past 7 anchored with best bower in 7fms abreast of James' Valley, moored ship. Ships in ye roads the same all but one American arrived & the Dane sailed. Sent on shore the officer [Lieut Milne] & 6 men. Employed cleaning ship &c. NB This Log contains 36 hours.

Wednesday 9th April 1806.
Moderate breezes & fine pleasant weather. Employed as necessary. At 5 PM Received orders to be ready for sea by the next day.

Thursday 10th April 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. At Noon anchored the H.C. ships Castle Eden & General Stuart from Bencoolen. Employed getting sundry stores from the shore, filling our water up &c. At 1 PM reported ready for sea, received orders to send our long boat crew to assist in getting the Castle Eden ready for sea.

Friday 11th April 1806.
Light winds & fair weather. People variously employed, a boats crew assisting the General Stuart Received a signal & 8 men from the garrison. NB This Log contains 12 hours.

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[Start of Sea Log]

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Towards the Cape of Good Hope

Saturday 12th April 1806.
Strong puffs at times variable with thick weather. PM At 2 hoisted in our boats & unmoored ship per signal. At 6 signal to weigh, at 7 I came on board with my dispatches. Weighed cast the wrong way owing to the wind shifting at the moment dropped foul of the General Stuart & hooked her cable, the ships doing each other damage cut our cable to get clean & stood out, carried away the fore mast futtock plate of the main fore mizen shroud on the starboard side & the jolly boats bumkin. Sent word to Master Attendant that I had cut from my anchor.

At 12 the extreme of the land from SSE to SW Commodore in ye roads south distance 5 or 6 miles. AM At daylight Barn Point SBW only three sail in sight astern. 5 sail in sight. At 10 the Baring made the signal to come within hail, wore & spoke him, she desired me to work up into the roads not seeing the Castle Eden & General Stuart coming out.

Sunday 13th April 1806.
C&D N28E 131 miles. Fresh breezes & cloudy weather throughout. PM At ½ past 2 saw four ships make sail from the roads viz. Castle Eden, Airly Castle, Travers & General Stuart, the 2 ships that had kept to leeward proved to be two whalers that had sailed without leave in the night. Bearings of the roads SbE extreme at SEbE to SW distance off shore about 2 leagues. At sunset James' Valley bore SbW about 8 leagues. AM Performed divine service I take my departure from the bearings at sunset. Lat ----. Lon ----.

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H C ship Georgiana

Monday 14th April 1806.
C&D N50E 101 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with a heavy swell from the eastward. PM At ¼ past noon Commodore made the signal for a boat with an officer & at 1 signal for Commanders. I waited on the Commodore & received leave to quit him at daylight. At 2 returned & hoisted up do do the boat. AM Shewed our colours hauled our wind to the eastward & parted company with the fleet. At 10 The Flat out of sight from the masthead. At ½ past 10 Long for sight of the sun & moon 4.6.W of Greenwich. Lat 12.59S Lon 3.28W.

Tuesday 15th April 1806.
C&D S22W 99 miles. Fresh breezes & fine weather with a heavy head sea. AM Cleaned the lower deck. People working up junk. Soldiers picking oakum. Lat 14.29S Lon 4.6W.

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Wednesday 16th April 1806.
C&D S20W 102 miles. Strong breezes throughout with frequent squalls & cloudy weather. AM At daylight saw the Island of St Helena extreme at SWbS½ S to SWBW distance 11 or 12 leagues. At 8 extreme at SW½W to WSW distance 6 or 7 leagues. At noon extreme at NEbN to NWbN distance 3 or4 leagues. People variously employed. I take a fresh departure from the bearings of the Island at noon. Lat 16.6S Lon 4.41W.

Thursday 17th April 1806.
C&D S16W 150 miles. First & middle parts fresh breezes with flying squalls & rain latter more moderate. PM At 4 the extreme of the Island at NbE to NEbN distance 10 or 12 leagues. At sunset the Island NEbN nearly out of sight. AM Roused the cables up to our took the services off & converted this outer sheet into an inner best bower. Lat 18.19S Lon 6.31W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Friday 18th April 1806.
C&D S23W 113 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls & rain at times & a long swell from ye SE. PM Payed the cables down into the hold again. AM People making points & gaskets, picking oakum &c. Gunner cleaning small arms. Lat 19.57S Lon 7.18W.

Saturday 19th April 1806.
C&D S11W 116 miles. Moderate breezes variable with rain at times. AM Washed the lower deck & exercised the guns otherwise employed necessary. Lat 21.34S Lon 7.41W.

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Sunday 20th April 1806.
C&D S9W 68 miles. Light airs variable with fine weather and smooth water. AM Performed divine service. Lat 22.36S Lon 7.52W.

Monday 21st April 1806.
C&D S4E 28 miles. Light airs & calms with fair weather & heavy swell at south westward. AM Set up the bobstays & bowsprit shroud, also main top mast rigging & top gallant. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 23S Lon 7.32W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 22nd April 1806.
C&D S34E 66 miles. Variable winds with hazy weather & heavy rain in the latter part, also very heavy head swell. Lat 23.41S Lon 6.51W

Wednesday 23rd April 1806.
C&D South 116 miles. Strong breezes throughout with squalls & rain & a heavy swell from the southwest. AM Cleaned the lower deck, otherwise employed drying sails & working up junk. Lat 25.37S Lon 6.51W.

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Thursday 24th April 1806.
C&D S29W 142 miles. Strong breezes throughout with squalls & rain at times & heavy swell at southward. PM At 2 longitude per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon 7.22.30 degrees west of Greenwich. AM People employed under the boatswain working up junk. Lat 27.38S Lon 8.8W.

Friday 25th April 1806.
C&D S9W 96 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls & rain at times & a head sea. PM Shifted main top sail with new one fore top main stay sail with best. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Quarter master repairing sail, soldiers picking oakum. Bent the main stay sail. Lat 28.57 Lon 8.25W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 26th April 1806.
C&D S27E 90 miles. Moderate breezes throughout mostly fine weather. PM Shifted mizen stay sail with new one. AM Shifted fore top sail & fore top gallant with 2nd best. Marines picking oakum, carpenter caulking the lower deck, gunner painting the long boat. Lat 30.18S Lon 7.39W.

Sunday 27th April 1806.
S17W 92 miles. First part moderate, middle & latter fresh breezes with fine weather throughout. PM At ½ past 1 saw a strange sail bearing SbE distance 8 or 9 miles. Standing to the westward. Chased her, at 4 fired a gun to leeward & shewed our colours, supposed her to be an English whaler. At ½ past 4 she fired a gun to leeward & shewed colours wishing for information continued the chase. AM At ½ past 1 fired a shot at her to bring her too, spoke her & sent our boat on board, she proved to be the Ocean transport last from the Cape. The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 31.50S Lon 8.10W.

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Monday 28th April 1806. C&D S51E 163 miles. First & middle parts fresh breezes, latter light breezes & fair. AM Got the spare anchor up out of the lower deck, stocked it & got over the larboard bow. Otherwise variously employed. Lat 33.29S Lon 5.37W.

Tuesday 29th April 1806.
C&D S51E 51 W. Variable winds with a heavy dew & rain in the latter part. AM Watch employed as necessary. Main top sail tye broke, sun rope spliced it. Lat 33.57S Lon 4.48W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Wednesday 30th April 1806.
C&D S9E 95 miles. First part light airs variable, middle & latter heavy swell with constant rain throughout. Lat 35.30S Lon 4.30W.

Thursday 1st May 1806.
C&D S74E 129 miles. Fresh breezes & squally throughout with heavy rain. AM Got the larboard pump up, found it very rotten about 4 foot from the heel and very much eaten by the rats, carpenter repairing it. Sailmakers repairing sails in the cabin. Lat 36.5S Lon 1.57W.

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Friday 2nd May 1806.
C&D S87E 158 miles. First part strong breeze more moderate towards the latter part & a heavy sea from the SW. AM Carpenter finished mending the pump, shipped it again. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary. Lat 36.21S Lon 1.19E.

Saturday 3rd May 1806.
C&D S88E 135 miles. Moderate breezes & cloudy weather with smooth water. PM Got up a new st--[?] top main steering boom, the old one being sprung. AM Shifted fore & main sails with new ones. Fidded fore top gallant main & crossed the yard. Carpenter caulking the lower deck. Lat 36.27S Lon 4.72E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Sunday 4th May 1806.
C&D N87E 108 miles. Moderate breezes and dry weather throughout. PM Punished Robt Waite ships steward & cooper with 1 dozen & 11 lashes for neglect of duty. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 36.19S Lon 6.20E.

Monday 5th May 1806.
C&D N87E 122 miles. Moderate winds throughout with fair weather & smooth water. AM Roused up the best bower cable clapt on a whole cable service. Carpenter caulking the starboard side of the lower deck & putting new pieces in at different places. Gunner cleaning small arms. Marines picking oakum. Lat 35.50S Lon 8.51E.

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Tuesday 6th May 1806.
C&D N86E 139 miles. Moderate breezes fine weather with smooth water. AM People working up junk, carpenter as yesterday. Quarter master repairing the old main top sail. Lat 35.30S Lon 11.42E.

Wednesday 7th May 1806.
C&D 89E 110 miles. Moderate breezes & cloudy weather throughout. AM People working up junk &c. Carpenter as days past, sailmakers as yesterday. Lat 35.21S Lon 13.57E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Thursday 8th May 1806.
C&D N86E 129 miles. Moderate breezes throughout with mostly cloudy weather. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Carpenter caulking the Lazeretto. Marines picking oakum. Lat 35.21S Lon 16.34E.

Friday 9th May 1806.
C&D N67E 109 miles. Pleasant breezes decreasing towards the latter part. AM At daylight Saw the land, Table Hill E¾N extreme to the southward extreme. Bent cables & exercised the guns. At noon extreme at ESE¼E to EbN¼N. The body of Table Land EbN distance about at 9 by two sights of the sun & moon made the long 17.13E of Greenwich. Lat 34.34S Lon 18.36E.

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Saturday 10th May 1806.
C&D S72E 30 miles. Moderate breezes & pleasant weather. PM At 4 Sugar Loaf NE½E Table Land NEbE½E Cape Point ESE distance about 10 or 12 leagues. At sunset Sugar Loaf NE½E. Cape Point ESE¼ extreme to ye southward ESE½S. AM At daylight extreme at NE½E to EbS distance 7 or 8 leagues. At 8 extreme at NE to E½N. At noon Devils Bay NE½E Table Hill NEbE½E Cape of Good Hope E½N Hang Lip [Hanglip] EbS½S ESE distance offshore about 5 leagues. Cleaned the lower deck quarter master on the main top sail. Soldiers picking oakum carpenter caulking &c. Unstowed the best bower anchor. Lat 34.38S. Lon ------.

Sunday 11th May 1806.
C&D ---- 58 miles. Light airs variable with fine weather. PM Got the anchors over the side. At 4 bearing Cape Point EbS. Table Land NE extreme at NEbN to ESE distance off Cape Point about 3 leagues. At sunset extreme at NEbE to SEbE½E Cape Point E½N Distance 2 leagues. At midnight Cape Point north 4 or 5 miles.

AM At 2 False Point extreme 2 or 3 miles. At 4 Cape Point NNW 5 miles. At sunrise Cape Point NW½N Table Hill NbW Cape Hang Lip EbN distance offshore about 3 leagues. At 8 Table Hill NbE½E Cape Point NW Hanglip EbN distance 3 leagues saw at strange sail 3 or 5 leagues to windward working up the Bay. At noon Cape Point NWbN about 4 miles off. PM At 1 saw a strange sail bearing EW appeared to be carrying all possible sail in chase of us. Working up False Bay, soundings from 20 to 24fms. At ½ pasty 11 came too with the best bower in Simons Bay in 10fms water. Veered away to half a cable. NB This Log contains 36 hours to Commence Harbour Log.

[End of Sea Log]

[Start of Harbour Log at the Cape]

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H C ship Georgiana

Monday 12th May 1806.
Strong breeze north westerly & rainy weather. At daylight the Roman Rock ESE¼S one mile ESE½ one mile. Noahs Ark on 10th Hanglip SEbS. Flag staff WSW. Found riding here H.M. ships Porpoise a store ship bound to Botany Bay, a Danish ship detained here also two French brigs, one ship, & the Eliza American brig. The Master Attendant boarded us & ordered us to be in readiness to run the ship on shore in case the enemy coming in. At 7 AM weighed & run further into the Bay. Moored ship half a cable each way in 7fms best bower to the NW when moored, Roman Rocks SE¼S Noahs Ark SE¾E. North Batting N¼E South do SE¼S & the Hospital W½N off shore about half a cables length. I left the ship with my dispatches for Cape Town Down top gallant yards & struck the masts. Draft 12.9 forward 14.8 aft.

Tuesday 13th May 1806.
Light airs variable & calms with fair weather. Loosed sails to air, cleared hawse, set up the main rigging, carpenter caulking the outside.

Wednesday 14th May 1806.
Fresh breezes & rainy weather. People variously employed under the boatswain, carpenter as yesterday. Two strange sail in sight. PM Anchored a Danish ship.

Thursday 15th May 1806.
Fresh NW gale with heavy rains. AM Down top gallant masts & lower yards & struck top masts. Anchored H.M.S. Woolwich store ship from England.

Friday 16th May 1806.
Moderate with rain. Fidded top main & top gallant masts. Tradesmen at their respective callings. PM Anchored a Portuguese ship. I visited the ship.

Saturday 17th May 1806.
Strong breezes increasing to a gale at night with thunder, lightning & rain. Struck top gallant masts, carpenter caulking, people as necessary, watering &c. I went to Cape Town.

Sunday 18th May 1806.
Fresh gale northerly with rainy weather. Carpenter caulking. People employed filling up or water.

Monday 19th May 1806.
Light breezes variable with rain. Filled up our water, swayed trhe lower yards up, otherwise employed as necessary, carpenter finishing caulking outside. Gunner cleaning small arms.

Tuesday 20th May 1806.
Moderate breeze & hazy weather. People variously employed getting the ship ready for sea, hoisted in the long boat, received on board 16 sheep for ships use. PM A strange sail in sight. I returned from Cape Town. Loosed top gallant yards.

Wednesday 21st May 1806.
Strong breezes throughout with heavy squalls & rain. People as necessary, hoisted in the cutter. AM Anchored the Commerce South Seaman last from St Helena.

Thursday 22nd May 1806.
Hard gales with rain throughout. AM Let go the sheet anchor underfoot & veered away a little upon the best bower down top gallant yards & struck top gallant mast.

Friday 23rd May 1806.
Hard gales throughout with heavy rain. AM weighed the sun bower anchor & stowed it for a sheet, left the sheet down. PM More moderate, unmoored ship. Wind freshening again moored as before. People & tradesmen variously employed.

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At the Cape of Good Hope

Saturday 24th May 1806.
Hard gale during the night with heavy hazy & lightning, towards noon more moderate. People as necessary. Draft of water 13.9 forward 14.6 aft. NB This Log contains only 12 hours.

Sunday 25th May 1806.
Light variable winds & fair weather. PM At 2 fidded top gallant masts & unmoored ship. At 3 Weighed & made sail with a light breeze at NW. At sunset Cape Point SWbS Cape Hanglip SE½E distance off the nearest shore about 4 or 5 miles. At 8 extra to the northward NWbN offshore 4 or 5 miles. AM At daylight Cape Point East distance about 6 or 7 leagues. At 8 the extreme of extreme to NNE. At noon Cape Point SE½E extreme of SE¼S to NE&'189N distance offshore about 3 leagues. Wind too variable & too much employed working ship to perform divine service.

Monday 26th May 1806.
Light airs variable throughout with fair weather. PM At 4to the Cape Point SE¾E extreme northward NE. At sunset extreme at NE to SE distance offshore 3 or 4 leagues. At 8 extreme to the northward ENE distance 3 leagues. At midnight the northern most point EbN½N. AM At 3 offshore 2 or 3 miles. At 7 Sugar Loaf EbS Table ESE Robin Island NE½E extreme to the northward N½W. At 8 Sugar Loaf SEbE½E Robin Island ENE distance offshore 2 or 3 miles. At noon Anchored with the best bower in Table Bay in 5fms water down top gallant yards & struck top gallant masts. At 2 veered away & moored ship a whole cable each way. Got an anchor & cable from the shore laid down on our starboard bow, took in the end of the cables, found riding here three store ships & one brig. Bearings when moored, Robin Island N½E Greenwich NW Amsterdam Battery W½N & the church SW½S. Worked all night in the hold. NB This Log contains 36 hours.

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H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 27th May 1806.
Light airs variable & calms with fair weather throughout. People employed cleaning the hold. PM received on board 53 casks of flour on account of the Hon'ble Company.

Wednesday 28th May 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Received 182 casks of flour on account of the Hon'ble Company otherwise as necessary.

Thursday 29th May 1806.
Light northwesterly winds & rainy weather. AM Made the signal for sailing received on board sundry stores for H.M. Ship Adamant. At 10 AM unmoored & hove into the service on the best bower. A boat came from the shore for the anchor & cable. Received two men & one woman belonging to the Adamant, one man belonging to the Rolla brig, also two French prisoners of war all as passengers to Simons Bay by order of Government. Draft of water 14.8 forward 15.8 aft. NB This Log contains 12 hours.

Friday 30th May 1806.
First part light airs middle & latter strong breezes with a heavy swell. PM At 6 weighed with a light breeze southerly and stood out of the Bay. At 8 Sugar Loaf S¾W. Robin Island N½W. At midnight extreme toe southward SSW. AM At daylight Table Hill East. At 8 Sugar Loaf EbN extreme to ye southward SEbE offshore about 12 leagues. At noon Table Hill EbS¼S extreme to ye southward SEbE distance offshore 6 or 7 leagues. Found a cask of flour nearly eaten by the rats.

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At the Cape of Good Hope

Saturday 31st May 1806.
Distance 69 miles. First & middle parts strong gales with a heavy sea, latter light breeze & fair weather. PM At sunset Sugar Loaf extreme to ye southward SEbE distance about 4 or 5 leagues. AM At daylight Table Hill EBN extreme to ye southward EbS½S distance about 9 or 10 leagues.

Sunday 1st June 1806.
Light airs variable throughout. PM Table Land EbN. At sunset Table Hill ENE distance about 18 or 19 leagues. AM At Daylight Table Hill East extreme at E½N to SEbE distance offshore about 17 leagues at 8 Cape of Good Hope ESE. Performed divine service. At noon Sugar Loaf ENE extreme to ye southward EbS offshore about 14 leagues.

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H C ship Georgiana

Monday 2nd June 1806.
First & latter parts light breezes, middle a strong breeze fair weather throughout. Two strange sails past to the northward appeared whalers. PM 4 Table Hill EbN½N Extreme to the southward SSE distance offshore 4 or 5 leagues. At sunset Sugar Loaf NEbE Table Hill ENE Cape Point EbS distance offshore about 4 leagues at 8 Cape Point SE½E. AM At 7 Cape Point EBN 4 or 5 leagues at 8 Cape of Good Hope NE¼E 4 or 5 miles. Bellow Rock NEbE¼E Cape Hanglip EbS. At noon Bellow Rock W½N northern extreme NW½W. Southern extreme SEbE Simons Bay NbE½E distance offshore 7 or 8 miles. Continued working up the Bay. At ½ past 10 PM anchored with the best bower in Simons Bay in 13fms water veered away to the half cable service. NB This Log contains 36 hours.

Tuesday 3rd June 1806.
Strong breezes throughout with heavy rain in the latter part. AM moored ship a cable each way best bower to the NW. Bearings Roman Rock ESE½E. Hanglip SEbS Noahs Ark SSE½E South Battery SSW. Hospital W½S & W½S & North Battery NNW½N. Found riding here H.M. ship Adamant, Porpoise & Rolla brig, also seven other ships. Delivered part of the Adamants stores also the two men & one woman, likewise the Rolla's seaman. Down top gallant yards struck the masts hoisted out the boats.

Wednesday 4th June 1806.
Strong breezes throughout with mostly fair weather. Employed delivering to the Adamant her stores & flour on account of the H. Company. At 1 PM fired a Royal salute in honour of His Majesty's birthday. Anchored the Sampson American ship from Madeira. Sent on board the Adamant the two French prisoners.

Thursday 5th June 1806.
Fresh southerly winds & fair weather. Delivered the remainder of the Hon. Company's flour to the Adamant. AM Cleared hawse, loosed sails to air, carpenter employed fitting a new timber at the starboard gangway. PM Unbent all sails.

Friday 6th June 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People variously employed watering &c. Gunner grinding paint, carpenter as yesterday. I went to Cape Town. PM Richard Hughes seaman entered on board H.M. ship Adamant.

Saturday 7th June 1806.
Light northerly winds & fair weather. People employed watering, scraping the sides &c., tradesmen as necessary. AM Sailed for St Helena H.M. Adamant.

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Sunday 8th June 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday, latter part rain. AM Cleaned ship inside & out. Anchored the Jolly Tar brig from Gurnsey. Sailed a Danish ship for Copenhagen.

Monday 9th June 1806.
First & middle parts light breezes latter increasing southerly with fair weather. People variously employed scraping sides picking oakum &c. Set the top mast rigging up, gunner painting outsides, carpenter caulking the quarter deck. Arrived the Albion whaler from England.

Tuesday 10th June 1806.
Light airs southerly with rain at times. People & tradesmen as necessary. Sailed the Jolly Tar for Table Bay.

Wednesday 11th June 1806.
Fresh southerly winds & fair weather. People as yesterday. Sailed an American ship.

Thursday 12th June 1806.
Southerly winds during the night hard gales mostly fair weather. People variously employed under the boatswain, carpenter finished caulking & gunner painting. PM Got top gallant masts down on deck, Struck lower yards.

Friday 13th June 1806.
Moderate variable winds & fair weather. Swayed up the lower yards, blacked bends &c. otherwise employed as necessary. Sailed two Americans.

Saturday 14th June 1806.
Northerly winds & fir weather. Cleaned ship & scrubbed hammocks. PM Sailed a Danish ship. Confined in irons John Coney mariner for drunkenness, mutinous &c. insolent behaviour to the commanding officer & sundry petty officers.

Sunday 15th June 1806.
Fresh southerly winds & fair weather. Performed divine service. Anchored an American brig from New York.

Monday 16th June 1806.
Light airs variable with fair weather. AM Cleaned hawse. People variously employed under the boatswain, gunner cleaning small irons, sailmakers repairing sails. I visited the ship.

Tuesday 17th June 1806.
Fresh northerly winds with rain at times. People & tradesmen employed as necessary. AM Held a Court of Enquiry on John Coney mariner when the court were of opinion his crimes being of so flagrant a nature, he should be referred to a regular Court Martial, by a sufficient number of His Majesty's ships or the Garrison of St Helena, he was therefore continued in confinement. Sailed H.M.S. Porpoise & Lady Sinclair store ship for Botany Bay.

Wednesday 18th June 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People & tradesmen as necessary. I returned to Cape Town.

Thursday 19th 1806.
Hard gales northerly in the first part latter more moderate with heavy rains. Struck lower yards. People working up junk, gunner cleaning small arms.

Friday 20th June 1806.
Moderate winds at ye northward with rain at times. People & tradesmen as necessary.

Saturday 21st June 1806.
Moderate breezes southerly & fair weather. AM Cleaned ship, tradesmen as days past. Anchored the Harmonie of Bremen last from Batavia.

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H C ship Georgiana

Sunday 22nd June 1806.
First part light airs variable middle & latter increasing breeze southerly & fair weather. Performed divine service.

Monday 23rd June 1806.
Strong SE winds & fair weather. People variously employed under the boatswain working up junk, gunner cleaning small arms. Sailmakers repairing old fore top sail.

Tuesday 24th June 1806.
Strong breezes N westerly with rain at times. People & tradesmen as yesterday.

Wednesday 25th June 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People under the boatswain cleaned the lower deck, six hands employed on board the Spanish prize, carpenter making a jolly b-[?] davit on the sail quarter.

Thursday 26th June 1806.
Light airs variable with fair weather. People & tradesmen employed as yesterday.

Friday 27th June 1806.
Light SE winds with calms at times & fair weather. People working up junk. Carpenter finished the davit, sailmakers on the fore top sail, gunner cleaning small arms six hands assisting on board the Spanish prize.

Saturday 28th June 1806.
Fresh SE winds & fair weather. AM Cleaned ship inside & out otherwise employed as yesterday. Anchored an American ship.

Sunday 29th June 1806.
Strong SE wind & fair weather. AM Performed divine service. PM hoisted in the boats & down lower yards.

Monday 30th June 1806.
Fresh breezes S Easterly more moderate towards the letter part. AM swayed up the lower yards & hoisted out the cutter otherwise variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen as necessary. A box of raisons eaten by the rats.

Tuesday 1st July 1806.
Light airs variable with calms & fair weather. People employed working up junk, gunner cleaning small arms, sailmakers repairing the old fore sail. Six hands on board the Spanish prize.

Wednesday 2nd July 1806.
First part light airs S Easterly middle & latter increasing breeze at ye NW with cloudy weather throughout. AM Anchored the Jolly Tar brig from Table Bay. Sailed the Albion whaler for Botany Bay. People & tradesmen as yesterday. PM Anchored two transport & one American from Table Bay.

Thursday 3rd July 1806.
Fresh NW winds with cloudy weather. People variously employed, cleaned the lower deck. I visited the ship.

Friday 4th July 1806.
Moderate NW winds with cloudy weather. People as before, carpenter making new gun carriages for the stern guns. PM Anchored a Danish ship from Batavia. Cleared Hawse.

Saturday 5th July 1806.
Light breezes variable throughout with fair weather. Cleaned ship otherwise as necessary. Six hands on board the Spanish prize. Anchored a small[?] schooner from Table Bay. I went to Cape Town.

Sunday 6th July 1806.
Strong breezes from the southward with cloudy weather. AM hoisted in the cutter and struck lower yards. The weather too unsettled to perform divine service.

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At the Cape of Good Hope

Monday 7th July 1806.
Moderate winds south easterly with fair weather. AM Out cutter & swayed the lower yards up. People working up junk. Gunner cleaning small arms, carpenter on the gun carriages.

Tuesday 8th July 1806.
Fresh breezes southerly with dark gloomy weather. PM Hoisted in the boats & down lower yards. People & tradesmen as necessary.

Wednesday 9th July 1806.
Light variable winds with cloudy weather. Swayed the lower yards up & hoisted out the long boat. Cleaned the lower deck. Six hands on board the Spanish prize.

Thursday 10th July 1806.
Fresh NE winds & cloudy weather. People working up junk, carpenter on the gun carriages, sailmakers on the mizen top sail. AM Sailed the Zephey a transport & an American for Table Bay.

Friday 11th July 1806.
Strong northerly winds with small rain at times. People variously employed under the boatswain, tradesmen at their respective callings. Sailed a schooner for Table Bay.

Saturday 12th July 180-6.
Hard gale from the NW with frequent showers of rain. PM Down lower yards & struck the top masts during the night heavy gusts of wind with thunder lightning & rain.

Sunday 13th July 1806.
Hard gale N Westerly with thunder lightning & rain. At 3AM Drove, cut away the sheet anchor & veered away about 20fms with best bower which brought her up. At daylight got the fib boom in & the spritsail yard fore & aft. PM Got the top sail yards down in the top.

Monday 14th July 1806.
Hard gale from the NW with heavy rain for the most part. People & tradesmen employed as necessary. Received on board one seaman.

Tuesday 15th July 1806.
First part strong breezes westerly moderate towards the middle with heavy rain. At daylight weighed the sheet anchor. At 8 unmoored, weighed & warpt further into the Bay. At sunset moored ship as before in ½ 8fms bearing Roman Rock EbS¼S Noahs Ark SE ¾S Cape Hanglip SSE½E South Battery SbE½E North do N¼E offshore about 1 mile.

Wednesday 16th July 1806.
Light northerly winds & fair weather. AM Fidded the top masts, out jib boom and crossed top sail & spritsail yards. PM Set the top mast rigging up &c. Sailed an American brig.

Thursday 17th July 1806.
Fresh breezes north westerly & rainy weather. Scraped & cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary under the boatswain. Carpenter on the stern gun carriages. Sailed the Commerce for St Helena, arrived the Lyon American brig.

Friday 18th July 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People & tradesmen as necessary.

Saturday 19th July 1806.
Moderate winds variable with fair weather. Cleaned ship otherwise as days past.

Sunday 20th July 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Performed divine service.

Monday 21st July 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People variously employed. I visited the ship. PM Anchored the Mercator & John transports from England.

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H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 22nd July 1806.
Fresh NW winds & cloudy weather. People & tradesmen as per days past.

Wednesday 23rd July 1806.
Southerly winds & fair weather. People working up junk, carpenter on the gun carriages. Discharged the seaman shipped on the 14th.

Thursday 24th July 1806.
Light airs variable & calms. AM Swayed the lower yards up. Scrubbed hammocks, cleared hawse & cleaned ship throughout. I went to Cape Town.

Friday 25th July 1806.
Strong winds S Easterly with fair weather. AM Fidded top gallant masts otherwise employed as necessary. PM Struck top gallant masts. Anchored a Danish ship from Copenhagen.

Saturday 26th July 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. AM Struck lower yards & down top gallant masts, scraped & cleaned the lower deck, carpenter finished the gun carriages.

Sunday 27th July 1806.
Light airs variable & calms. AM Fidded top gallant masts, swayed lower yards & bent sails. Sir David Baird informed me he would not retain the ship after the first of August.

[Sir David Baird, 1757-1829, Lieutenant-General of the British in Cape Town.]

Monday 28th July 1806.
Fresh breezes southerly with fair weather. Received from the John transport 208 casks of flour on account of the Hon'ble Company otherwise as necessary. Anchored the Juno transport & Eagle private ship from Table Bay.

Tuesday 29th July 1806.
Variable light breezes with fair weather. Employed [people] prepared ship for sea. I joined the ship. Sailed an American brig & arrived the Protector gun brig from Madras.

Wednesday 30th July 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People as necessary. Cleaned out the bread room found only 30lbs of bread & 190lbs of dust.

Thursday 31st July 1806.
Fresh breeze NW & fair weather. Received on account of the Hon'ble Company 10 bags of Calavances & 4 boxes of sugar otherwise employed filling water &c.

Friday 1st August 1806.
Light breezes S Easterly mostly fair weather. At 8 AM crossed top gallant yards, loosed fore top sail and fired a gun & hoisted blue peter. Employed getting ready for sea. Cleared haws

Saturday 2nd August 1806.
Strong gale from the northward with hazy gusts & rain at times. AM Down top gallant yards & masts. People under the boatswain.

Sunday 3rd August 1806.
Light airs variable with fair weather. At daylight fidded top gallant masts crossed top gallant yards & unmoored ship. Came on board Col. Borland & Mr Roach passengers for St Helena. At noon I went off with my dispatches. Draft 14.5 fore 15.6 aft. NB This Log contains only 12 hours.

Monday 4th August 1806.
Variable light airs & calms. At 2 PM weighed & towed out of the Bay. At light increasing breeze at ye SE with fair weather. Made sail. Employed turning out of the Bay. At sunset Seale Island EbN Roman Rocks NW¼ W Cape Hanglip SSE Cape of Good Hope SSW½W. AM At daylight Cape Point SW½W Cape Hanglip SSE½E. At noon Cape Point NW¼W. Bellows Rock W½S Cape Hanglip SE¾E off Cape Point about 2 miles. Saw a strange sail bearing SSW. The stranger SbE 2 or 3 miles working into the Bay. The stranger showed American colours. Stowed the anchors.

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[Start of Sea Log]

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Toward St Helena

Tuesday 5th August 1806.
C&D S57W 53 miles. First part light airs & calms middle increasing latter hard gale from the NE. PM At 4 Cape Point NNW Bellows Rock NW. Westerly extreme to the eastward SE½E 4 or 6 miles. At sunset Cape Point NbE Bellows Rock NbW½W distance 4 miles. At 8 Cape Point NEbN. Unbent the small bower & sheet cable & stowed the anchors. AM People employed as per log. I take my departure from the bearings of Cape Point at sunset allowing to lay in Lat 34.29S Lon 18.23E.

Wednesday 6th August 1806.
C&D South 17 miles. First & middle parts hard gales with heavy rain latter more moderate a heavy sea throughout killed by the labouring of the ship 12 sheep. AM Employed as necessary. Lat 35.11S Lon 17.35E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Thursday 7th August 1806.
C&D N31W 50 miles. Light breezes mostly throughout with a heavy tumbling sea toward the latter part much fallen. AM Unbent the best bower cable. Scraped & cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed as necessary At 6 saw the Table Land bearing EbN distance 17 or 18 leagues. At 8 E¼N 18 or 19 leagues. At noon Table Land E¼S 18 or 19 leagues. Lat 34.29S Lon 17.3E.

Friday 8th August 1806.
C&D N57W 163 miles. Light airs in the first part middle & latter pleasant breezes & fair weather. PM Shifted main top sail with old one. AM Variously employed under the boatswain. Quarter master repairing the main top sail & sprit sail. Lat 32.52S Lon 14.30E.

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Toward St Helena

Saturday 9th August 1806.
C&D N10W 81 miles. Moderate breezes & pleasant weather throughout with smooth water. AM Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Quarter master repairing main top sail. Lat 31.38S Lon 14.14E.

Sunday 10th August 1806.
C&D 56W 43 miles. First part moderate breeze latter hard squalls & rain with a heavy sea at ye northward. AM The weather too squally to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 31.12S Lon 13.32E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Monday 11th August 1806.
C&D N18E 43 miles. First & middle parts strong breezes with very hard squalls, latter more moderate with a heavy sea at ye NW. Washed away part of the head on both sides with heavy pitching. AM Variously employed about the rigging. Shipped mizen top sail with old one. Sailmakers repairing main & mizen top sails. Lat 30.33S Lon 13.47E.

Tuesday 12th August 1806.
C&D N26E 90 miles. Fresh breezes and cloudy weather with squally at times. Am People variously employed under the boatswain. Sailmakers repairing main top sail. Lat 29.0S Lon 14.32E.

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Toward St Helena

Wednesday 13th August 1806.
C&D N35W 53 miles. First part moderate breeze, middle & latter light airs variable with fair weather. PM At 2 saw the land from the mast head bearing NE. At 4 the land from the deck at NEbE to ENE. At sunset the extreme of the land from NE to NEbN distance about 13 or 14 leagues. AM At daylight the extreme of the land from NE to extreme S distance about 19 or 20 leagues. Roused up the sheet & small bower cable & took off the services. At noon the land from NEbE to EbS. Lat 28.11S Lon 13.58E.

Thursday 14th August 1806.
C&D N48W 93 miles. Light breezes inclining to calm in the latter part with fair weather. PM Paid down the sheet & small bower cables, condemned the small bower being totally unserviceable. AM Roused up the best bower otherwise as necessary. Sailmakers middle stitching best main top sail. Lat 27.14S Lon 12.40E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Friday 15th August 1806.
C&D N42W 85 miles. First & middle parts light airs variable letter fresh breezes with fair weather throughout. PM Payed down the best bower cable, shifted main top sail with best the old one being split. AM People variously employed under the boatswain, sailmakers repairing the old main top sail. Lat 26.8S Lon 11.37E.

Saturday 16th August 1806.
C&D N57W 172 miles. Moderate breezes throughout with fair weather. AM People variously employed working up junk, sailmakers as yesterday. Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat 24.33S Lon 8.58E.

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Toward St Helena

Sunday 17th August 1806.
C&D N56W 181 miles. First part moderate middle & latter squally with rain at times and a following sea. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 22.54S Lon 6.14E.

Monday 18th August 1806.
C&D N56W 171 miles. A fresh trade throughout with cloudy weather. PM At 40 past 1 long per mean 43 sights of the sun & moon 8.29.45E of Greenwich. AM People working up junk, sailmakers repairing the old mast top sail, gunner cleaning small arms. Lat 21.18S Lon 3.41E.

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H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 19th August 1806.
C&D N55W 154 miles. Moderate trade throughout hazy weather. AM People variously employed working up junk. Sailmakers as days past. Scrubbed hammocks & cleaned the lower deck. Lat 19.50S Lon 1.26E.

Wednesday 20th August 1806.
N53W 101 miles. Light airs variable throughout with cloudy weather. AM People working up junk, exercised the guns. Sailmakers as before. At noon punished Benjamin Base mariner with 6 lashes at the gangway for theft. Lat 18.49S Lon 0.00.

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Toward St Helena

Thursday 21st August 1806.
C&D N53W 118W. A moderate trade throughout with cloudy weather. AM People under the boatswain working up junk. Sailmakers middle stitching the best bower top sail. Lat 17.36S Lon 1.38W.

Friday 22nd August 1806.
C&D N53W 130 miles. Moderate trade throughout with hazy weather. AM Bent cable, sailmakers as yesterday. Lat 16.47S Lon 3.27W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 23rd August 1806.
C&D N71W 171 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with squalls at times & hazy weather. PM At 4 Long per mean of 4 sights of the sun & moon 1.56. 4W of Greenwich. AM People under the boatswain cleaned the lower deck, sailmakers as yesterday. Lat 15.53S Lon 5.15W.

Sunday 24th August 1806.
C&D ----. A fresh trade throughout with cloudy weather. PM At 11 South Island of St Helena bearing W½S. AM At 4 the body of the Island WNW 4 or 5 leagues. At 8 hove too & sent the boat on shore. At ½ past 9 anchored to the best bower in 10fms veered to half a cable & steadied with a kedge. Butter Milk Fort ENE, Horse Pasture Point WSW, Valley SSE, found riding here the H.C. ships Dorsetshire & Surat Castle 7 whalers & one American. Draft fore 13.7 aft 15.6. Left the ship Col Borland & Mr Roach passengers. The master attendant had not weighed the anchor ---[?] but from on the 12th April the buoy had been shot away. Anchored near it meaning to sweep for it. NB This Log contains 36 hours. Lat ----- Lon -----.

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[Start of Harbour Log]

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At St Helena

Monday 25th August 1806.
Strong puffs from the SE with rainy weather. Employed delivering flour on account of the Hon Coy. Sent part of our water casks on shore. Unbent sails, got top gallant mast on deck & rove the running rigging. Sent on shore the mariners.

Tuesday 26th August 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Employed delivering flour, struck lower & top sail yards, do top masts, cooper on shore repairing water butts.

Wednesday 27th August 1806.
Fresh breezes mostly fair weather. Stripped the top masts & main mast & got the main top down & sent it on shore, found it to be totally rotten, condemned it. Found two of the main shrouds stranded, fitted new pair, delivered the remainder of the H.C. cargo, cooper as yesterday. AM Anchored the H.C. ships Dover Castle, Lord Keith & Ocean store ship under convoy of the Antelope 50 Cap- Bayley. [not clear - is Captain Bayley the commander of the Antelope?]

Thursday 28th August 1806.
Moderate breeze with rain at times. Employed on the rigging and as necessary. Received sundry stores from the Stores. Two carpenters one caulker & one cooper employed from other ships. Carpenter making a new main top. PM Anchored the Fortitude from Bengal.

Friday 29th August 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People on the rigging, carpenter on shore, cooper do. Found two planks on the starboard side & one on the larboard side under the fore chains very rotten. One carpenter fitting new pieces in do. PM Anchored a whaler, sailed an American.

Saturday 30th August 1806.
Light breezes mostly fair weather. Employed the rigging. Set up the fore rigging, fidded fore top main & set the rigging up. Tradesmen as yesterday, found the main cap guide rotten, condemned it & fitted the spare one.

Sunday 31st August 1806.
Light variable winds & calms. Employed rattling down the fore & fore top mast rigging, swayed up the gaff. PM Got the main top over bolted it & set up the main rigging. Caulker caulking, cooper repairing butts, otherwise as necessary preparing for sea. Paid the ships company 5 months wages due the 14th inst.

Monday 1st September 1806.
Moderate breezes south easterly mostly fair weather. Fidded main top main & got the lower & top sail yards across. Found small part of the main top sail good rotten, clapt a batten on it employed rattling down the rigging otherwise as necessary. Received a 15 inch cable from the stores.

Tuesday 2nd September 1806.
Moderate breezes & fair weather. AM Fidded top gallant mast, set the rigging up, got out the jib boom, blacking down the rigging. Received a boat of water. Anchored the Admiral & Columbine, transports with troops from the Cape for Buenos Ayres.

Wednesday 3rd September 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Rove the running gear & as necessary preparing th ship for sea. Received 3 chaldrons of coals. Anchored the Protector gun brig & Diadem transport for Buenos Ayres.

Thursday 4th September 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Variously employed preparing for sea, watering &c. Received 2 leaguers of rum from the Stores.

Friday 5th September 1806.
Light breezes variable with fair weather. Cleaned ship throughout otherwise employed watering &c. Received sundry ships stores. AM Sailed H.M. brig Protector, transport, Adamant, Diadem & Columbine for Buenas Ayres. Shipped R. Allen seaman.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 6th September 1806.
Fresh breezes with fair weather. AM Bent sails & rove all the running rigging otherwise variously employed cleaning ship. PM Anchored the private brig Jolly Tar from the Cape of Good Hope.

Sunday 7th September 1806.
Moderate breezes mostly fair weather. Sent part of the ships company to church. PM Sailed for England H.M. ship Antelope, H.C. ships Dorsetshire & Surat Castle & eight South Seamen.

Monday 8th September 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People variously employed under the boatswain. Carpenter repairing the jolly boat. Received our spare spars from the Store.

Tuesday 9th September 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed under the boatswain, carpenter as yesterday, gunner painting the quarter deck.

Wednesday 10th September 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People & tradesmen as yesterday. PM Sailed for Trinidada[sic] in the West Indies with Chinese settlers the Fortitude country ship.

Thursday 11th September 1806.
Fresh breezes with small rain at times. Cleaned the lower deck to prepare to take in the cargo of the brig Jolly Tar, she having been bought into the H.C. Service. Payed the ships company one months pay up to the 14th inst.

Friday 12th September 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. People clearing the hold to receive the brig cargo. Roused the cables up & coiled them on the lower deck. Carpenter finished the jolly boat, gunner painting her otherwise as necessary. Arrived an American ship.

Saturday 13th September 1806.
Moderate winds mostly fair weather. Employed receiving cargo from the brig Jolly Tar on account of the Hon'ble Company. PM an American Anchored ship from the Isle de France with Captain Larkins & officers belonging to the late H.C.S. Warren Hastings which had been taken by the Le Piémontaise French frigate after an action of 4 hours & 40 minutes

Sunday 14th September 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. Received one boat load of military stores on account of the Hon. Co. Employed in the hold & as necessary. Sailed an American.

Monday 15th September 1806.
Moderate breeze with rain at times. At 8 AM Crossed top gallant yards fired a gun & hoisted blue peter. Set the main rigging and top mast & top gallant rigging fore & aft. Received sundries on account of the H.C. otherwise employed preparing for sea. Not having had time to sweep for our anchor; again sent the Master Attendant the bearings of it.

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At St Helena

Tuesday 16th September 1806.
Moderate breezes with fair weather. At 8 AM loosed the fore top sail & hoisted blue peter, weighed the kedge & got all ready for weighing the best bower, hoisted in the long boat & cutter. Came on board Captain L'Pelley his two officers & ten seamen as passengers. Shipped Mr Le Pelley junior as midshipman. PM Selected home the top sails. At sunset furled them again our dispatches not been ready. Run out a kedge to steady the ship.

[Captain Le Pelley and his two officers were officers from the Jolly Tar which had been 'bought into' the H.C. Service on the 11th September. The log passenger list at the beginning of this log refers to Captain Le Pelley as commander of the Jolly Tar. Five days later on 16th September log records two passengers coming on board, Captain Le Pelley and his son Nicholas Le Pelley, Nicholas was to become a midshipman on the Georgiana.]

Wednesday 17th September 1806.
Winds & weather as yesterday. At 8 repeated the signal for sailing. Weighed the kedge, came on board Mr Robert Thompson as passenger. Draft of water forward 14.7 aft 15.9. NB This Log contains only 12 hours. To commence sea log.

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[Start of Sea Log]

Thursday 18th September 1806.
C&D S76W 143 miles. Moderate trade throughout with cloudy weather. PM At ½ past 2 I joined the ship with my dispatches saluted the Fort with 9 guns. Weighed & made sail, unbent the cables & stowed the anchors. At ½ past 5 High Knoll EbS½S extreme at SEbE to east off shore 5 or 6 leagues. AM Roused the best bower cable up to air & took off the service otherwise as necessary. Carpenter repairing the gun carriages. I take my departure at ½ past 5 PM allowing it lay in Lat 16.0S Lon 5.55W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Friday 19th September 1806.
C&D S74W 116 miles. Light airs with smooth water & fair weather. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Carpenter as yesterday. Lat 16.58S Lon 10.15W.

Saturday 20th September 1806.
C&D S72W 96 miles. Light airs and fine weather throughout. AM People & tradesmen usefully employed, washed the lower deck and exercised the great guns. Lat 17.27S Lon 11.51W.

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Towards Buenos Ayres

Sunday 21st September 1806.
C&D S78W 89 miles. Light trade throughout with fair weather. AM Performed divine service. Lat 17.50S Lon 13.22W.

Monday 22nd September 1806.
C&D S80W 86 miles. Light trade and fare weather throughout. AM People working up junk, sailmakers middle stitching the main top sail. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 18.S Lon 14.5W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Tuesday 23rd September 1806.
C&D S79W 78 miles. A light trade and pleasant weather. People working up junk, finished middle stitching the main top sail. Lat 18.18S Lon 16.12W.

Wednesday 24th September 1806.
C&D S88W 93 miles. Light breezes throughout with fair weather. AM People working up junk, cleaned the lower deck, sailmakers middle stitching the main stay sail. Lat 18.30S Lon 17.50W.

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Towards Buenos Ayres

Thursday 25th September 1806.
C&D S85W 94 miles. Light breezes with fair weather throughout with heavy swell for the most part from the northward. AM People under the boatswain making mats &c. Sailmakers repairing the old mizen stay sail. Gunner cleaning small arms, carpenter & cooper as necessary. Lat 18.45S Lon 19.20W.

Friday 26th September 1806.
C&D S87W 126 miles. A moderate trade and pleasant weather throughout. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen at their respective callings. Lat 18.55S Lon 21.43W.

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H C ship Georgiana

Saturday 27th September 1806.
S87W 155 miles. Fresh trade mostly throughout with cloudy weather. AM People working up junk, scraped & cleaned the lower deck. The ship rolled too much to exercise guns. Lat 19.8S Lon 24.26W.

Sunday 28th September 1806.
S84W 153 miles. Pleasant breeze with hazy weather. AM Performed divine service. Lat 19.23S Lon 27.7W.

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Monday 29th September 1806.
C&D S84W 123 miles. A moderate trade with fine weather throughout. AM Set up the main, main top mast, main top gallant, mizen top main & fore top gallant rigging otherwise as necessary. Tradesmen at their respective callings. Lat 19.38S Lon 29.17W.

Tuesday 30th September 1806.
C&D S85W 85 miles. Light winds throughout hot sultry weather. AM People working up junk, caulker caulking the forecastle, sailmakers middle stitching 2nd best fore top, top sail & making tarpaulins. Lat 19.50S Lon 30.47W.

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Wednesday 1st October 1806.
C&D S75W 148 miles. Fresh breeze and squally weather with a tumbling sea. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as days past. Lat 20.24S Lon 33.19W.

Thursday 2nd October 1806.
C&D S79W 167 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with hazy weather & rain in ye night. PM At 9 shortened sail expecting to see the Island of Ascension. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Sailmakers middle stitching fore top sail, tradesmen as most necessary. Lat 20.58S Lon 36.14W.

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Friday 3rd October 1806.
C&D S70W 187 miles. Fresh breezes with hazy weather & a tumbling sea. AM People variously employed working up junk &c. otherwise as necessary, sailmakers as yesterday. Lat 22.1W Lon 39.24W.

Saturday 4th October 1806.
C&D S64W 131 miles. Fresh breezes with cloudy weather in the first part clear towards the latter part. PM Punished Robt Waite with 18 lashes at the gangway for theft. No ground at 130fms. Saw a strange sail bearing WNW NE. Fresh breeze, cleared for action, shewed our colours, stranger shewed Portuguese colours. AM At ½ past 8 spoke the strange sail & sent out boat on board, found her to be the Protector General Portuguese ship from Lisbon bound to Rio Janeiro, out 2 months. Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. At ½ past 9 longitude per mean of 4 sights of the sun & moon 39.6.30 west of Greenwich. Lat 4.58S Lon 41.32W.

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Sunday 5th October 1806.
C&D S57W 160 miles. Fresh breezes and pleasant weather throughout. PM At 2 the Portuguese ship NEbE½E. Top sails down. At 5 out of sight from the deck. AM Performed divine service. At 9 per mean of 4 sights of the sun & moon longitude 42.13.24 west of Greenwich. Lat 24.32S Lon 43.59W.

Monday 6th October 1806.
C&D S54W 163 miles. Fresh breeze mostly throughout with cloudy weather. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Sailmakers repairing & middle stitching 2nd best fore sail. Caulker caulking the long boat. At ¼ before 9 per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon, long 44.58 West of Greenwich. Lat 26.10S Lon 46.21W.

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Tuesday 7th October 1806.
C&D S40W 169 miles. Fresh breezes with cloudy weather and rain at times. AM People under the boatswain fitting new top sail tyes & working up junk. Sailmakers & tradesmen as days past. Lat 28.16S Lon 48.23W.

Wednesday 8th October 1806.
C&D S31W 148 miles. First & middle part fresh breezes with thunder light squalls & rain, latter variable & fair with a heavy swells from ye NE. AM Employed as necessary. At ½ past 11 per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon long 48.51.25 West of Greenwich. Lat 30.24S Lon 49.50W.

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Thursday 9th October 1806.
C&D South 50 miles. First & middle part light breeze variable & rain, latter strong breezes. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed under the boatswain. Sailmakers repairing the fore top gallant sail. Lat 31.10S Lon 48.43W.

Friday 10th October 1806.
C&D S5W 49 miles. First part strong breezes middle & latter light airs with a heavy swell from the southward. AM Roused up the best bower cable clapt a 3fm worming[?] on a part that was much chafed, bent the cable & payed it down again. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 31.55S Lon 49.45W.

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Saturday 11th October 1806.
C&D S43W 109 miles. First part light airs & calms middle & latter an increasing breeze with fair weather throughout. AM Shifted fore top sail with 2nd best, bent the small bower sheet cables, roused up the small bower out of the hold & payed it down between deck. Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns, sailmakers repairing steering sails &c. Lat 33.31S Lon 51.13W.

Sunday 12th October 1806.
S67W 174 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with cloudy weather. PM At 5 saw a strange sail bearing SWbW standing to the NW, saw nothing of the stranger after sunset. AM Got the anchors over the side. Lat 34.43S Lon 54.26W.

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Monday 13th October 1806.
C&D S50W 33 miles. Variable weather with hard rain for the most part. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Lat 35.4S Lon 54.57W.

Tuesday 14th October 1806.
C&D S36W 37 miles. Light breezes & pleasant weather throughout. PM At sunset saw the land from the masthead bearing at NWbW to WNW. Could just see it from the deck. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary under the boatswain. Carpenter fitting the boats. Lat 35.38S Lon 55.24W.

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Wednesday 15th October 1806.
C&D S87W 87 miles. First part light airs variable inclinable to calm, middle & latter moderate breeze northerly with fair weather throughout. AM At daylight saw the land from the deck appearing like two hummocks bearing NbW½W distance about 20 leagues. Suppose it to be the Isle of Lobos. People variously employed under the boatswain. Lat 35.30S Lon 57.11W.

Thursday 16th October 1806.
C&D N79W 51 miles. First part light airs & calms middle & latter moderate breezes at times. AM< People employed as necessary. Lat 35.28S Lon 58.12W.

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Friday 17th October 1806.
C&D ----. Light variable breezes with fair weather throughout. At ½ past noon saw the land from the masthead bearing SSW. At 2 extreme of the land at south be SWbW distance 6 or 7 miles. At 4 extreme at south to WbS distance about 7 miles could only just see the trees from the deck, the land was so very low. At sunset anchored with the small bower extreme of the land at NbN to SSE distance off the nearest land 7 or 8 miles. AM At sunset weighed & made sail extreme of the land SSE to SbW distance 7 or 8 miles. At 8 a large red tiled house bore SSW distance 4 or 5 miles. Lat ---- Lon ----.

[Richard Woolcot Davis, 3rd mate on the Georgiana was ordered on shore on shore at Buenos Ayres in search for a pilot and was, along with James Clarke, seaman; Robert Stephenson, seaman; Charles Freestone, Bombay marine boy; Thomas Kimes, Bombay marine boy, detained by the Spanish authorities on 20th October 1806. He returned home as master of the Two Sisters from Montevideo. The Georgiana was caught up or involved the British Government's attempt to take the area from the Spanish. Wikipedia.]

Saturday 18th October 1806.
C&D ----. First part moderate breeze middle strong breeze latter more moderate with fair weather throughout. PM Longitude at ½ past 2 per mean of 7 sights of the sun and moon 57.1725 west of Greenwich. At sunset the land bore SWbW distance 5 or 6 miles. AM at daylight extreme of the land from SEbS to west off shore about 4 miles. At 6 saw a ship at anchor, she appeared to be on the other side of a low point. A brig working up which soon got round the Point & disappeared, thought she shewed English colours, she bore WbN. At noon could not see the land from the deck. Saw several other ships unrigged within the one at anchor, could just see their lower mastheads over the land. Lat ---- Lon ----.

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Sunday 19th October 1806.
C&D ---. First part light airs middle & latter strong breezes. PM The strange ships at anchor at 2 SWbW. At sunset the ships at anchor SW¾W extreme of the land at SWbW to SSE distance off shore 5 or 6 miles. AM At daylight the town of Sacramento NBE, the ships at anchor in Ballagan Bay SbE. At 8 Point Lara SSW at 10 miles. At 10 saw the town of of Buenos Ayres. At 11 grounded for a short time in 2fms soft mud, lowered down the jolly boat & found deeper water to the northward, fired a gun & hoisted a Union Jack for a pilot, a large boat with about 40 men in her came near & reconnoitered us. Not liking her appearance cleared for action & hoisted the boat up. She stood back again for the upper part of the town having Company's colours up, thought she took us for an American, hauled them down & hoisted a Red Ensign enforced by a gun to leeward S to WbS centre of the town SW½S distance 3 or 4 miles. Lat ---- Lon ---.

Monday 20th October 1806.
C&D ---. First part fresh breezes, middle moderate & calm, latter a light breeze. PM Bearings of the centre of the town SWbW distance 7 or 8 miles. AM At 3 sent Mr Davis 3rd officer with 4 hands in the jolly boat on board a brig at an anchor about 5 miles off to endeavour to get a pilot or some information in whom possession the town was in. At 6 she not returning and perceiving a brig, 2 schooners, & a cutter coming down to us with sweeps, prepared for action, loosed & & set sails (very little wind). At 7 cut the cable and stood down the river with a light air N Easterly. At ½ past 7 the headmost schooner fired a shot at us & hoisted Spanish colours, as did the rest as soon as they thought their guns would reach, several shot passed between our masts & others fell close ahead & astern. At ¼ past 8 a shot cut our inner bobstay, bowsprit shroud & sprit sail sheet on the starboard side, we fired one shot from 12 pound out of the quarter post but found it fell short. At 9 the breeze freshened a little & we ----ed[?] fast from them soon after one of the schooners fired a signal gun & all but the brig stood about & went back! At 20 after nine the brig about ship & stood back for the town. We continued standing down the river. At noon extreme of the land at SEbE to SSW, a fleet in Barragan Bay bore SWbW, one appeared a frigate, the rest were unrigged. Think they hoisted Spanish ensigns. Lat --- Lon ---.

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Tuesday 21st October 1806.
Fine steady breeze with smooth water & fine weather. PM At 4 a red house SbW 7 or 8 miles. At sunset extreme of the land at WbS to SEbE very low distance about 11 or 12 miles. Filled all our water casks up by 3pm. AM Unbent the cables & stowed the anchor otherwise as most useful. Called a consultation of my officers and Captain Le Pelley when it was unanimously agreed that we should steer for the Cape of Good Hope to inform H.M. Naval Commander their of Buenos Ayres being retaken by the Spaniards & to enable Captain Le Pelley to sell his cargo. I take my departure from the bearings of the red house at 4 PM allowing it to lay in Lat 35.7S Long 57.24 hours of Greenwich.

Wednesday 22nd October 1806.
S86E 116 miles. First & middle parts strong breezes latter more moderate with fair weather throughout. Made Mr Thos Seacole acting third mate. AM Payed down the small bower into the hold, turned the deck stoppers out & unrove the harbour gear. Shifted the jib with small one, carpenter repairing the cutter. Lat 36.11S Lon 53.11W.

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Thursday 23rd October 1806.
C&D N88E 117 miles. Pleasant breezes with fair weather. AM People under the boatswain. Tradesmen as most necessary. Lat 36.3S Lon 50.46W.

Friday 24th October 1806.
C&D N86E 171 miles. Fresh breezes with cloudy weather throughout. AM Fitted a preventer bobstay & sets it up, otherwise employed working up junk &c. Carpenter repairing the cutter. Lat 35.50S Lon 47.14W.

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Saturday 25th October 1806.
C&D S85.E 143 miles. Fresh breezes for the most part with squalls & rain. AM People under the boatswain, cleaned the lower deck, shifted fore stay sail with worst to repair the 2nd best. Lat 36.3S Lon 44.19W.

Sunday 26th October 1806.
C&D S84E 191 miles. Pleasant breezes and fine clear weather. AM Performed divine service and returned thanks for deliverance from our enemies. Lat 36.23S 40.24W.

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Monday 27th October 1806.
C&D S87E 186 miles. Fresh breezes throughout with cloudy weather in the latter part. AM People under the boatswain working up junk, carpenter repairing the cutter, sailmakers repairing the jib & 2nd best fore stay sail. Lat 36.33S Lon 36.33W.

Tuesday 28th October 1806.
C&D S88E 154 miles. First & middle parts strong breezes with squalls & rain, latter moderate & fair. AM People under the boatswain & as necessary drying sails &c., sailmakers & carpenter as yesterday. Lat 36.38S Lon 34.58W.

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Wednesday 29th October 1806.
N37E 50 miles. First & middle parts moderate breezes & fair weather, latter strong breezes with cloudy weather & a head sea. AM People & tradesmen as necessary. Cut the long boats mainsail up to repair the main top sail. Lat 35.57S Lon 32.43W.

Thursday 30th October 1806.
C&D S43E 66 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls & rain for the most part. Lat 36.48S Lon 31.47W.

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Friday 31st October 1806.
S84E 166 miles. Squally weather with rain throughout. AM Got a swifter up on the starboard side of the main rigging & set it up. Made out of the broken fore mast, main shrouds. Found the bolt of the after main top mast's bobstay started. Got a preventer on, condemned the old mizen. Lat 37.5S Lon 28.20W.

Saturday 1st November 1806.
C&D East 125 miles. First part strong breezes middle & latter moderate & fair with a tumbling sea. PM Got a swifter over the main masthead on the larboard side. AM Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 37.5S Lon 25.44W.

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Sunday 2nd November 1806.
C&D N84E 120 miles. First part fair, moderate & latter squally with rain at times. AM Too squally to perform divine service. Mustered the people at the quarter deck. Lat 36.12S Lon 23.16W.

Monday 3rd November 1806.
C&D N81E 68 miles. First part moderate breeze middle & latter light variable winds & fair weather. AM Set up the main, main top mast & main top gallant rigging. Shifted fore sail with best. Sailmakers middle stitching best main sail, carpenter as necessary. Found the rats did eat a great quantity of bread. At 8 per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon made the longitude 24.1 west of Greenwich. Lat 35.57S Lon 21.53W.

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Tuesday 4th November 1806.
C&D S79E 148 miles. An increasing breeze with cloudy weather in the latter part. PM Shifted main sail with best. AM People as necessary under the boatswain, tradesmen at their respective callings. Lat 36.23S Lon 18.53W.

Wednesday 5th November 1806.
C&D S79E 174 miles. First part strong breezes increasing to a hard gale with small rain & a heavy swell. The ship laboured very much during these 24 hours. Lat 36.50S Lon 15.21W.

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Thursday 6th November 1806.
C&D N87E 60 miles. Strong gale throughout with a heavy sea, the ship laboured much. AM Employed as necessary. Lat 36.56S Lon 14.6W.

Friday 7th November 1806.
C&D N86E 127 miles. First part a hard gale with rain, middle & latter more moderate with a heavy swell at ye westward. PM At 7 the 2nd & 5th main shrouds broke quite short, stoppered them, set them up & got the purchase tackets up to secure the mast. AM Spliced the main shrouds & set them up, cleaned the lower deck otherwise as necessary. Lat 37.22S Lon 11.27W.

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Saturday 8th November 1806.
C&D N72E 60 miles. Moderate breezes with cloudy weather and small rain at times. PM At ½ at 6 saw the Island of Inaccessible bearing SE½E distance about 7 or 8 leagues. At sunset Inaccessible SEbE½E also saw the Island of Tristan Da Cunha extreme at E¾S to SEbE the body ESE¼E distance 4 or 5 leagues. At 10 Tristan Da Cunha SE½S. At midnight it bore SE distance offshore about 2 leagues. AM At 2 the southernmost point of Tristan Da Cunha SSW distance about 7 miles. At day light it bore WSW distance 9 or 10 leagues. Employed drying sails & as necessary. The ship rolled too much to exercise the guns. I take a fresh departure from Tristan Da Cunha at 2am allowing it to lay in Lat 37.7S Lon 12.10W. Lat 36.49S Lon 10.59W.

Sunday 9th November 1806.
C&D N79E 151 miles. Moderate breezes with squalls and rain at times. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 36.14S Lon 7.55W.

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Monday 10th November 1806.
C&D N85E 160 miles. Moderate breezes with squalls & rain at times & hazy weather. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Lat 36.1S Lon 4.38W.

Tuesday 11th November 1806.
C&D N81E 128 miles. Variable winds & cloudy weather. AM Employed as necessary, tradesmen at their respective callings, exercised the guns. Lat 35.43S Lon 2.26W.

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Wednesday 12th November 1806.
C&D N73E 60 miles. Light airs very variable with hazy weather for the most part. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed as most useful. Gunner painting the cutter, sailmakers on the 2nd best fore stay sail. Opened the after hold to air, found one of the H.C. quarter chest of tea a good deal eaten by the rats. Lat 35.26S Lon 1.16W.

Thursday 13th November 1806.
C&D N60E 18 miles. Light variable airs with hazy weather for the most part. AM People employed under the boatswain working up junk. Sailmakers repairing the 2nd best main top sail. Gunner painting the cutter. Lat 35.17S Lon 0.56W.

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Friday 14th November 1806.
C&D S70E 64 miles. First part light airs & calms middle & latter an increasing breeze with rain at times. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Gunner painting the cutter. Sailmakers on the main top sail. Lat 35.38S Lon 0.18E.

Saturday 15th November 1806.
C&D S84E 169 miles. Moderate breezes and fine weather throughout & smooth wake. PM At 10 past 2 longitude per mean of 3 lights of the sun & moon made 1.2.30E of Greenwich. AM People variously employed, cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat 35.57S Lon 3.45E.

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Sunday 16th November 1806.
C&D N89E 151 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls & rain throughout. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 35.56S Lon 6.52E.

Monday 17th November 1806.
C&D N64E 93 miles. Variable winds with fair weather throughout. PM At 2 per mean of 4 sights of the sun & moon made the Long 7.1.30E. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Shifted jib & fore top main stay sail with 2nd best. Sailmakers on the main top sail. Lat 35.15S Lon 8.37E.

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Tuesday 18th November 1806.
C&D N70E 18 miles. Light airs & calms with fair weather throughout. PM At ¾ part 1 longitude per sun & moon 8.49.25E of Greenwich. AM People working up junk, picking oakum &c. Sailmakers repairing steer yards. Lat 35.19S Lon 8.58E.

Wednesday 19th November 1806.
C&D N85E 24 miles. Light airs variable with cloudy weather. AM People under the boatswain, cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns, found two gun carriages wanting repairs, carpenter employed repairing them. Lat 35.18S Lon 9.27E.

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Thursday 20th November 1806.
C&D East 32 miles. Light airs and calm throughout with cloudy weather. AM People employed knotting yarns &c. Carpenter as yesterday. Lat 35.18S Lon 10.6E.

Friday 21st November 1806.
C&D N86E 98 miles. Pleasant breeze and fine weather. AM People under the boatswain, tradesmen as necessary, bent the new royals. Lat 35.11S Lon 12.6E.

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Saturday 22nd November 1806.
C&D N85E 160 miles. Fresh breezes for the most part with hazy weather & a tumbling sea. AM Cleaned the lower deck, roused up the small bower cable & coiled it on the lower deck, bent do & turned in the stoppers. Lat 34.58 Lon 15.22E.

Sunday 23rd November 1806.
C&D N72E 122 miles. Moderate breezes and cloudy weather with a head sea. AM Bent the best bower cable, the weather too unsettled to perform divine services. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 34.20S Lon 17.43E.

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Monday 24th November 1806.
C&D ---. First part steady breezes middle & latter light airs variable. PM At 3 saw the land bearing EbS distance 10 or 11 leagues. At 6 Table Hill E½S distance about 9 leagues. At sunset the body of Table Hill E½S Sugar Loaf E¼N extreme to ye southward SE½E distance off shore about 6 leagues. At midnight Table Hill EbN southward SEbE distance offshore about 6 leagues. AM At 5 Sugar Loaf bore EbS extreme to ye southward at ESE to SSE distance offshore about 4 leagues. At 8 Sugar Loaf EbS extreme to ye southward, south do to ye northward NEbE off the nearest shore 4 or 5 miles. At ¼ part 10 abreast of Robin Island, the breakers off do NEbE½E. At noon rounded Green Point. PM At 2 anchored with the best bower in #1885fms moored ship with a whole cable to SE & 2/3 of one to ye NW. Down top gallant yards & masts upon deck. Unbent the main sail. Bearings when moored the body of Cape Town WSW Sugar Loaf W½E extreme of do at N¼W to N ¾E distance off the nearest shore ¾ of a mile.

At 4 I left the ship to wait upon the Governor. Found riding were 3 transports & a few neutrals. NB This Log contains 36 hours and ends at midnight. Lat ----. Lon ----.

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Tuesday 25th November 1806.
First & latter parts strong breezes ye SE middle light airs variable with hot sultry weather. Roused the cables up out of the hold & coiled them on the lower deck otherwise preparing to deliver cargo. Carpenter caulking the counter, other tradesmen as necessary. AM Embargo was laid on all ships.

Wednesday 26th November 1806.
Strong breezes at ye SE. Employed setting up the fore top mast rigging &c. in the hold & picking oakum. Carpenter caulking the bends, sailmakers repairing the main sail, gunner grinding paint.

Thursday 27th November 1806.
Light airs variable throughout. Employed getting the spare anchor up out of the hold. Carpenter as yesterday, gunner painting the outside. Set the mizen rigging up &c.

Friday 28th November 1806.
First part light airs middle & latter strong breezes at ye SE. AM Stocked the sheet anchor & got it over the side. At 7am let go the sheet anchor and wore away on the best bower. Gunner as yesterday.

Saturday 29th November 1806.
First part strong south easterly winds latter more moderate. AM Arrived & anchored off Robin Island a large ship with Company colours & one with American colours. An American ship came into the Bay but was obliged to stand out again. Employed cleaning ship. At 8 PM Weighed the sheet anchor.

Sunday 30th November 1806.
First part moderate latter a hard gale from the SE with small rain at times. AM Performed divine service. Anchored in the Bay the Udney from Bengal also an American.

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Monday 1st December 1806.
First part strong breezes from the southward with heavy squalls, let go the sheet anchor, latter moderate & variable. Weighed the sheet anchor & hove into the old service. Sailmakers on the main sail, tradesmen as useful, people employed under the boatswain.

Tuesday 2nd December 1806.
Light airs variable with calms & hot sultry weather. Employed delivering cargo, gunner painting the ship. Unbent the best main top sail, sailmakers as yesterday.

Wednesday 3rd December 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned the lower deck, otherwise employed under the boatswain.

Thursday 4th December 1806.
First part fresh breezes at ye S&W, latter at ye SE with hot weather. People employed watering under the boatswain, gunner cleaning small arms, sailmakers repairing 2nd best main sail.

Friday 5th December 1806.
Moderate breezes north westerly with fair weather. Employed watering & under the boatswain. AM Anchored the private ship London Packet from London.

Saturday 6th December 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed watering &c. Gunner cleaning small arms, sailmakers on the main sail.

Sunday 7th December 1806.
Light variable winds & pleasant weather. AM Performed divine service.

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Monday 15th December 1806.
First part fresh breezes at ye SE increasing to a strong gale. People employed under the boatswain, carpenter caulking the quarter deck other tradesmen as necessary. PM Let go the sheet anchor.

Tuesday 16th December 1806.
First part light airs variable increasing to a strong breeze & fair. People & tradesmen usefully employed. AM Weighed the sheet anchor. PM A brig working into the bay under Company's colours, but blew to fresh to work up, she anchored on the north side of the Bay.

Wednesday 17th December 1806.
Ditto winds & weather. People & tradesmen as yesterday. AM Anchored the brig Margaret from England, she left September 15th - heavy gusts of wind in the night, let go the sheet anchor.

Thursday 18th December 1806.
Light winds north westerly with hot sultry weather. AM Weighed the sheet anchor otherwise variously employed under the boatswain. Carpenter caulking the long boat, sailmakers repairing sails. AM Anchored the H.C.E. ship Sarah Christiana from Madras, also a brig from Batavia under Rostock colouring.

Friday 19th December 1806.
Strong westerly breezes with heavy rain throughout & a heavy swell in ye latter part with thunder. People employed under the boatswain, sailmakers repairing sails, gunner cleaning small arms. PM Confined in irons Wm Smith seaman for insolence and riotous behaviour.

Saturday 20th December 1806.
Westerly winds with squalls of rain & hail in the first part, middle & latter more moderate. People variously employed.

Sunday 21st December 1806.
Moderate breezes at ye northward with dark cloudy weather. Employed getting ready to receive cargo on account of the Hon'ble Company. Employed in the hold & landing ballast.

Monday 22nd December 1806.
Moderate breezes at ye SW with rain. Employed delivering ballast and otherwise as necessary. AM Punished William Smith with one dozen lashes at the gangway for grossly abusing Mr Harrington 2nd officer & behaving in a most riotous manner.

Tuesday 23rd December 1806.
Light airs and fine weather. Employed receiving rice on account of Hon'ble Company & otherwise as necessary. Arrived the H.C.E. ship Union Vis. Captain McIntosh, Matilda Captain Scott, country ship & private ship Mermaid from England, 13 weeks passage.

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Wednesday 24th December 1806.
Light airs northerly and fine weather. Employed receiving rice on account of the Hon'ble Company & preparing for sea. PM Sailed for England the H.C.E. ship Sarah Christina. The embargo was taken off this day.

Thursday 25th December 1806.
Fresh breezes from the northward with rain at times & a good deal of swell. Employed receiving rice on account of the Hon'ble Company. AM Sailed the country brig Margaret for Bengal.

Friday 26th December 1806.
Variable winds with flying showers of rain and heavy swell. Employed receiving cargo on account of the Hon'ble Company. Sailed the H.C.E. ship Union & country ship Matilda for Bengal.

Saturday 27th December 1806.
First and middle parts variable, latter strong breezes at ye SE. Employed getting the ship ready for sea.

Sunday 28th December 1806.
Light airs variable throughout. At daylight unmoored & hove into a half cable. At 8 crossed top gallant yards & made the signal for sailing otherwise employed as necessary. Discharged Joseph Johns a seaman he being in a sickly state of health.

Monday 29th December 1806.
First & middle parts strong breezes at ye SE. Down top gallant yards and dropt the small bower under foot, latter part NW winds & fair weather. Arrived two Americans from India. PM weighed the small bower.

Tuesday 30th December 1806.
Variable winds & fine weather. Employed under the boatswain. AM Arrived from Madras under convoy of H.M. Ship Woolwich, the H.C. ships Phoenix, Calcutta, Wm Pitt, Streatham, Europe, Preston, Jane Duchess of Gordon, H.C.E. ships Tigress, Glory, Comet, Sir Wm Pulteney, Northampton, Union N.2, Diana & Ann. Steadied the ship with a kedge.

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Wednesday 31st December 1806.
Light northerly winds & fair with hot sultry weather. Exercised the guns. Cleaned the lower deck & other ways as necessary. Gunner cleaning small arms, other tradesmen at their respective callings.

Thursday 1st January 1807.
Light airs at ye SW. Weighed the kedge and made the signal for sailing as before. AM Came on board Captain John Aldred of H.M. 60 Regt as passenger. NB This Log contains only 12 hours.

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[Start of Sea Log]

Friday 2nd January 1807.
C&D N46W 92 miles. First & latter parts fresh breezes, middle moderate with fine weather. PM At ½ past 2 I joined the ship with my dispatches, hoisted in the cutter. At ½ past 4 weighed & made sail. At sunset the body of Robben Island bore WNW distance about 2 miles. Lions Rump SW extreme at ye northward NbE distance off shore 5 or 6 miles. Table Hill covered with clouds. AM Unbent the cables, roused up the best bower to air & took off the service, found one strand quite broke in the wake of the worming, carpenter repairing the cutter. I take my departure at sunset supposing the town to be 8'distance & allowing it to lay in Lat 33.56S Long 18.23E of Greenwich. Lat 32.52S Lon 17.4E

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Saturday 3rd January 1807.
N49W 195 miles. Strong breezes throughout with a heavy following sea and fair weather. AM People usefully employed under the boatswain. At 10 the 3rd main shroud on the starboard side broke about 2 feet above catharpins. Got the lower tacket up to secure the mast & clapt a stopper on ditto. Lat 30.45S Lon 14.12E.

Sunday 4th January 1807.
C&D N56W 192 miles. Pleasant breezes with a heavy sea in the first part. PM Clapt stoppers on all the lower main shrouds in the wake of the tattock shrouds. AM Hauled the sails up to dry out of the cabin they having got wet by leaks from the stern post and quarter gallery funnels. Carpenter employed taking down lockers & stopping leaks which were very bad, also found several holes eaten by rats through the wing transum. Bearing off Helena N50.2W distance 1224. Lat 28.58S Lon 11.8E.

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Towards St Helena.

Monday 5th January 1807.
C&D N45W 152 miles. A pleasant trade throughout with a following sea. AM Cleaned the lower deck otherwise employed under the boatswain. Sailmakers repairing the old fore sail. Gunner cleaning small arms, carpenter filling up with wedges between the wing transom & the butt ends of the cabin deck, caulking the same & stopping rat holes, some quite through the wing transom. Lat 27.14S Lon 9.6E.

Tuesday 6th January 1807.
C&D N42W 125 miles. Moderate trade & pleasant weather throughout. AM People variously employed under the boatswain, carpenter repainting the cutter, gunner cleaning small arms, sailmakers as yesterday. Lat 25.45S Lon 7.30E.

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Wednesday 7th January 1807.
C&D N42W 122 miles. Light trade with cloudy weather throughout. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen at their respective callings. Exercised the guns. Lat 24.23S Lon 6.0E.

Thursday 8th January 1807.
C&D N41W 114 miles. Moderate trade with hazy weather throughout. AM People working up junk, gunner painting the cutter. Shifted the fore sail with old one. Sailmakers repairing 2 best fore sail. Lat 23.13S Lon 4.38E.

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Towards St Helena.

Friday 9th January 1807.
C&D N47W 142 miles. An increasing breeze with cloudy weather throughout. AM People under the boatswain, sailmakers repairing the old fore top sail. Lat 21.36S Lon 2.45E.

Saturday 10th January 1807.
C&D N46W 137 miles. Moderate trade with cloudy weather. AM People under the boatswain working up junk, gunner cleaning small arms. Washed the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat 20.13S Lon 1.02E.

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Sunday 11th January 1807.
C&D N51W 119 miles. Pleasant trade with fine weather throughout. AM Performed divine service. Lat 18.58S Lon 0.38W.

Monday 12th January 1807.
C&D N54W 133 miles. Moderate trade throughout with cloudy weather. AM Roused up the sails from the hold, made them up afresh & stowed them in the after cabin otherwise employed under the boatswain. Gunner cleaning small arms. Lat 17.38S Lon 2.32W.

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Towards St Helena.

Tuesday 13th January 1807.
C&D N51W 118 miles. Light trade with cloudy weather throughout. AM Roused the cables up out of the hold, coiled the sheet & small bower on the lower deck. Bent the bower cables & cut & spliced the best bower 68fms from the clinch one strand having broke quite short. Lat 16.25S Lon 4.8W.

Wednesday 14th January 1807.
Light breezes with cloudy weather for the most part. PM At 2 saw the Island of St Helena bearing NWbN distance 14 or 15 leagues. At sunset the body of the Island NW distance 7 or 8 leagues. At 10 The Island bore NW. At midnight extreme at N½W to NWnW½W, offshore about 2 leagues. AM At 2 extreme of the Island at NbW to west offshore about 3 leagues. At 4 Barn Point NNW extreme to ye westward WSW 3 or 4 leagues. At daylight extreme at WbS to NWbW Sperry Island WbS. At 8 hove too and sent our boat on shore, at ½ past 11 anchored to the best bower in 11fms. Flagstaff at the Castle SSE, steadied the ship with a kedge down top gallant yards & masts otherwise employed clearing away for cargo. Hoisted out the long boat. At noon went on shore also Captain John Aldred passenger. NB This Log contains 36 hours & ends at midnight.

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H C ship Georgiana

Thursday 15th January 1807.
Calms with hot sultry weather. Employed landing rice on account of the Hon'ble Company.

Friday 16th January 1807.
Moderate breezes at ye SE with fine weather. Employed as yesterday.

Saturday 17th January 1807.
Fresh breezes in the first part, middle & latter moderate at daylight. Weighed & warped further in shore. Anchored in 8½fms with ye best bower & moored with the steam[?] otherwise employed delivering rice.

Sunday 18th January 1807.
Moderate breezes and fine weather. Cleaned ship. AM Performed divine service.

Monday 19th January 1807.
Light airs & calms with hot sultry weather. Employed landing H.C. cargo. PM Struck the main top mast & unrigged it.

Tuesday 20th January 1807.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed as yesterday. Payed the ships company four months wages due the 14th January.

Wednesday 21st January 1807.
Fresh breezes with hard puffs at times from the SE & fine weather. Employed delivering the last of the H.C. cargo & preparing to smoke the ship. PM dropt the sheet anchor under foot.

Thursday 22nd January 1807.
Strong breezes from the SE and cloudy weather. People employed about the rigging & in the hold. PM made 10 charcoal fires in the hold & lower deck. Light the fires & battened down the hatchways.

Friday 23rd January 1807.
Moderate breezes variable with fine weather. AM Weighed the sheet anchor. People employed about the rigging. At noon arrived H.M. ship Woolwich with the fleet of Indiamen from the Cape. At PM opened the hatches & found 177 dead rats and saw a number more dead between the lining in the hold which we could not get at. At 6 light the fires afresh & made all close again.

Saturday 24th January 1807.
Ditto winds & weather. People employed as yesterday. Got a 7 inch hawser & a piece of 48fms from the H.C.E. Streatham & found 13 dead rats which appeared to have been killed the day before from their being in a putrid state, the smell from dead rats that could not be got up was very offensive.

Sunday 25th January 1806.
Pleasant breezes at ye SE with fine weather. Employed cleaning hold & getting store off from the shore.

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Monday 26th January 1807.
Moderate SE winds with rain in ye latter part. People employed fitting new main rigging &c. Received 12 men from H.M. ship Woolwich & 7 from the H.C. ship William Pitt. Mr Thos Seacole was sworn in 3rd mate.

Tuesday 27th January 1807.
Light airs & cloudy weather. Set the main rigging up & fitted new after back stays to the main top mast otherwise as necessary ready for sea. At 4 PM Anchored H.M. ship the Sampson last from the Cape. Received the assistance as yesterday.

Wednesday 28th January 1807.
Light airs & calms throughout. Some hands under the boatswain received from H.M. ship Woolwich 14 pipes, 4 half pipes, 1 chest & 4 half chests of wine. 4 hods[?] of arrack & 6 cases of China ware on account of the Hon'ble Bazil Chochrane. PM Sailed ship Woolwich for England. 4 men from the Wm Pitt assisting us.

[Basil Cochrane 1753-1826, 6th son of the Earl of Dundonald, was Scottish businessman, inventor and wealthy nabob who made a vast fortune in India. See Wikipedia for his story.]

Thursday 29th January 1807.
Light airs & fine weather. People employed setting up the rigging, getting water & stores off &c. 3 men from the Tigris assisting.

Friday 30th January 1807.
Ditto winds & weather. An officer & 116 men from H.M. ship Sampson assisting us to get ready for sea. Bent sails & otherwise employed getting off water & stores, 3 men from the Tigris on board. At 8 AM Commodore made the signal for sailing. PM Received my instructions from Captain Cuming of H.M.S. Sampson

[Captain William Cuming 1760-1824, is a distinguished commander and took action in both the American and French wars and at Trafalgar. See Wikipedia for his career. See under Encounters for reference to HMS Sampson.]

Saturday 31st January 1807.
Ditto winds & weather. People variously employed in the hold & getting off stores. Received 13 invalids from the garrison. John Slater, cook discharged with the Governor because he having broke 2 of his ribs.

Sunday 1st February 1807.
Light breezes & fine weather. At 8 AM signalled from every person to repair on board at 10 to unmoor, unmoored & dropt further out. NB This Log contains only 12 hours.

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This is my original journal part the second, H. Leigh [signed] Witness: Collingwood. H Leigh Feby 7 1807.

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H C ship Georgiana towards England

Monday 2nd February 1807.
C&D N34W 95 miles. As 1PM The Commodore made the signal to weigh. At 4 weighed & stood off & on waiting for the fleet, at 7 signalled to steer NNW. The fleet consisted of H.M. ship Sampson, H.C. ships Phoenix Calcutta. William Pitt, Streatham, Europe, [Jane] Duchess of Gordon, Preston, Georgiana, Glory, Northampton, Ann, Comet, Tigris, Sir Wm Pulteney, Diana & Union, 2 transports SSE & 7 whalers [a ship noted later named as the Dina was either a transport or whaler]. Moderate breezes throughout with small rain at times. PM Stowed the anchors & unbent the cables, at 6 saw James Valley SbE distance about 3 leagues, extreme at SE to SSW. AM Roused the cables on deck to air, condemned the remainder of the old small bower & cut it up. Payed the cables down into the hold. At 11 signalled for the fleet to continue the same course although the Commodore did otherwise, do for the Streatham to lead the fleet, Commodore went astern to take a whaler in tow. At ½ past 11 the Europe made the signal for a strange sail in ye NE quarter inforced with 2 guns. I take my departure from the bearings at 6 PM allowing the Island to lie in Lat 15.55 Lon 5.49W of Greenwich. Lat 14.42S Lon 6.50W.

Tuesday 3rd February 1807.
C&D N40W 85 miles. Light trade with fine weather. Commodore SbE with a whaler in tow, signal to lie too. Signal to steer large, Commodore SbE 2 miles. AM Payed the sails down into the after hold, out of the cabin, otherwise employed under the boatswain. Lat 13.42S Lon 7.47W.

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Wednesday 4th February 1807.
C&D N41W 96 miles. Light trade and fine weather. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Gunner painting the outside of the ship. Sailmakers on the old fore top sail. Lat 12,22S Lon 8.52W.

Thursday 5th February 1807.
C&D N39W 109 miles. A moderate trade & pleasant weather throughout. AM People under the boatswain working up junk. Gunner repairing head pump, sailmakers as yesterday. Lat 10.44S Lon 10.1W.

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Towards England.

Friday 6th February 1807.
C&D N36W 109 miles. Light breezes and fine weather throughout. AM People employed working up junk. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 9.18 Lon 11.7W.

Saturday 7th February 1807.
C&D N36W 93 miles. A light trade with fine weather throughout. AM Washed the lower deck & exercised the guns. Gunner painting the stern. Sailmakers as days past. Lat 8.14S Lon 12.4W.

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Sunday 8th February 1807.
C&D N35W 83 miles. Light breezes and fair weather throughout. AM Performed divine service. All the fleet in close company. Lat 7.3S Lon 12.53W.

Monday 9th February 1807.
C&D N39W 102 miles. A light trade with sultry weather. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 5.42S Lon 13.58W

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Towards England.

Tuesday 10th February 1807.
C&D N47W 98 miles. First & middle parts light airs latter pleasant trade & fine weather. AM People under the boatswain, sailmakers on the fore top sail, gunner cleaning small arms. Lat 4.41S Lon 15.11W.

Wednesday 11th February 1807.
C&D N48W 105 miles. A moderate trade & pleasant weather throughout. PM Shifted fore top sail with old one. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Sailmakers repairing 2nd best fore top sail. Gunner cleaning small arms, carpenter caulking the water way seams on the upper deck. Lat 3.41S Lon 16.30W.

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Thursday 12th February 1807.
C&D N40W 97 miles. Pleasant breezes and fine weather throughout. AM At 6 saw a strange sail bearing SE steering for the fleet, Commodore cast off his tow & made the signal to steer the same coarse & sail though he did otherwise Streatham signalled to lead signal to shorten sail & close the convoy. Under easy sail for the Commodore & Stranger. Set up the main main top main & top gallant rigging. Tradesmen as necessary, carpenter repairing the brake of the quarter deck. Lat 2.26S Lon 17.40W.

Friday 13th February 1807.
C&D N46W 103 miles. A moderate trade & fair weather throughout. PM The stranger proved to be the Paragon transport with Sir David Baird & sail from ye Cape. AM People working up junk, sailmaker on ye 2nd best fore top sail, carpenter as yesterday. Gunner cleaning arms. At 10 the signal to come within hail spoke the Commodore & he ordered me to go ahead to look out in the day to be about 2 miles distance in the night ¾ a mile & to carry a light. Lat 1.4S Lon 18.54W.

[General Sir David Baird 1757-1829, 1st Baronet Newbyth, he had served at the Cape and was involved in the ill-fated expedition to South America in 1805/6. He had left the Cape on the 19th January 1807 and arrived in England in March of that year. See Wikipedia for his history.]

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Saturday 14th February 1807.
C&D N45W 92 miles. Light airs & fine weather throughout. PM At 2 long per mean of 4 sights of the sun & moon 20.53W of Greenwich. AM People under the boatswain cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Gunner cleaning small arms, carpenter caulking the waist on the starboard side. Sailmaker on the main top sail. Lat 0.22N Lon 18.36W.

Sunday 15th February 1807.
C&D N29W 80 miles. First & middle parts moderate breezes, latter squally with heavy rain & thunder & lightning. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. At 10 the signal for the stern most ship to make sail, at 11 repeated for the ships in ye SbE quarters. Lat 1.40N Lat 10.36W.

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Monday 16th February 1807.
C&D N19W 71 miles. First part cloudy with rain, middle & latter fair with light squalls at times. AM At 6 a strange sail bearing EbN, Commodore hauled out of the fleet & spoke her think the stranger shewed Portuguese colours. People variously employed as necessary. Last 2.56N Lon 19.53W.

Tuesday 17th February 1807.
C&D N21W 65 miles. Light variable winds throughout with fair weather. AM Found the slings of ye fore yard broke, employed fitting a new pair, carpenter caulking round the mast, exercised the guns. Lat 4.33N Lon 20.22W.

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Towards England.

Wednesday 18th February 1807.
C&D N48W 64. Light airs with dark cloudy weather & heavy rain in ye night. AM People working up junk, cleaned the lower deck. Tradesmen as necessary. Last 5.27N Lon 21.4W.

Thursday 19th February 1807.
C&D N19W 58 miles. Light variable winds and fair weather. AM People working up junk, tradesmen at their respective callings. At 9 Commodore hove all aback, lowered down a boat & picked a man up that had fallen overboard. Lat 6.18N Lon 21.24W.

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Friday 20th February 1807.
C&D N51W 57 miles. Light airs with fine weather throughout. AM People working up junk, tradesmen as most useful. Lat 6.54N Lon 22.9W.

Saturday 21st February 1807.
C&D N60W 65 miles. Light variable winds & fine weather throughout. AM Fitted the new fore top sail, washed the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat 7.15N Lon 23.6W

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Towards England.

Sunday 22nd February 1807.
C&D N42W 68 miles. Light breezes and fine weather throughout. AM Performed divine services. Lat 7.51N Lon 25.52W.

Monday 23rd February 1807.
C&D N28W 88 miles. Fresh breezes for the most part with fine weather & a confused swell. AM People variously employed under the boatswain. Tradesmen as necessary. Overhauled the potatoes & found a great quantity damaged. Lat 8.58N Lon 24.34W.

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Tuesday 24th February 1807.
C&D N33W 93 miles. Fresh breezes with hazy weather. PM At 5 a strange sail in sight to windward, Commodore shewed colours to her. AM Roused up all the cables converted the outer best bower into a small bower & spliced the last new cable received for an inner best bower employed serving the best bower &c. Lat 10.17N Lon 25.26W.

Wednesday 25th February 1807.
C&D N32W 99 miles. A fresh trade with squalls &c, a head sea. PM Payed the cables down into the hold. AM Let the jib boom in 8 feet set up the fore top gallant rigging &c. Tradesmen as necessary. Washed the lower deck & filled a few butts with salt water. Lat 11.34N Lon 26.19W.

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Thursday 26th February 1807.
C&D N33W 116 miles. Fresh trade and fine weather throughout. PM Shifted fore top gallant with 2nd best. AM People employed under the boatswain working up junk, tradesmen as necessary. Lat 13.14N Lon 27.22W.

Friday 27th February 1807.
C&D N32W 120 miles. A stormy trade with squalls & a head sea. PM Signalled for long per chro' mean of the fleet 31.31W of Greenwich. AM Employed as necessary. Lat 14.56N Lon 28.28W.

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Saturday 28th February 1807.
C&D N25W 127 miles. Strong trade with cloudy weather & a good deal of sea. AM People under the boatswain, cleaned the lower deck. Quarter masters on the old fore top sail. Lat 16.49N Lon 29.24W.

Sunday 1st March 1807.
C&D N30W 124 miles. First & middle parts a fresh trade, latter light & variable with a head sea. AM At 7 shifted main top sail with best, at 8 split the jib bent the small one. The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 18.43N Lon 30.29W.

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Monday 2nd March 1807.
C&D N31W 70 miles. Light airs throughout with squalls & rain. AM Shifted fore sail with best & driver with a new one. People under the boatswain. Lat 19.38N Lon 31.7W.

Tuesday 3rd March 1807.
C&D N5W 54 miles. Light variable winds & fair weather throughout. AM People variously employed under the boatswain, tradesmen as necessary. Lat 20.30N Lon 31.2W.

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Wednesday 4th March 1807.
C&D N8E 68 miles. First & middle parts light airs variable, latter an increasing breeze with a long swell at ye NW. AM Employed under the boatswain and filling salt water. Cleaned the lower deck, tradesmen as necessary. Lat 21.46N Lon 30.52W.

Thursday 5th March 1807.
C&D N22E 82 miles. First & middle parts light variable winds, latter an increasing breeze with fine weather & a head sea throughout. AM Set up the bobstays main main top mast & top gallant rigging. Tradesmen as necessary. Lat 22.58N Lon 30.22W.

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Friday 6th March 1807.
C&D N8E 138 miles. Strong breezes for the most part with squalls & rain & a tumbling sea. AM Shifted main sail with best & bent the main stay sail. Lat 25.7N Lon 30.1W.

Saturday 7th March 1807.
C&D N13W 157 miles. Strong breezes throughout with squally weather & a head sea. AM Found the head of main mast sprung, reefed & handed main top sail down top gallant yard & mast on deck, made the signal to the Commodore that I sprung my main mast & could fish it by tomorrow. Carpenter trimming a fish for the main mast. Struck fore top gallant mast by signal. Lat 27.49N Lon 30.38W.

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Sunday 8th March 1807.
C&D N13W 130 miles. First part stormy gales & heavy rain, middle & latter more moderate with a heavy sea. AM Employed clapping on the fish upon the main mast. At 9 Commodore made a telegraph signal to me 'is your mast nearly secured?' Answered him by evening. Lat 29.45N Lon 31.9W.

Monday 9th March 1807.
C&D N11E 135 miles. Strong gales with heavy squalls & thunder, lightning & rain. PM At 6 Finished fishing the main mast. AM At ½ past 2 sprung the driver boom. At 9 saw a strange sail bearing EbS, made the signal. Employed as necessary shifted mizen stay sail with new one & unbent the fore stay sail to repair. Lat 31.41N Lon 30.11W.

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Towards England.

Tuesday 10th March 1807.
C&D N4W 123 miles. First part strong breezes, middle and latter more moderate with cloudy weather. AM Got the driver boom in found it sprung too bad to repair condemned it. Employed drying sails &c. Quarter master repairing the fore stay sail. Lat 33.17N Lon 30.52W.

Wednesday 11th March 1807.
C&D N15W 88 miles. Moderate breezes & fair weather throughout with a long swell from the eastward. AM Got a rough spar out of the lower deck to make a driver boom off, carpenter employed making do, other tradesmen as necessary, cleaned the lower deck. Lat 34.39N Lon 31.20W.

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Thursday 12th March 1807.
C&D N21W 80 miles. First part squally middle & latter moderate & fair with a head sea. AM People under the boatswain making cable mats &c. Sailmakers fitting the new mizen top sail & repairing the fore stay sail. Carpenter as yesterday. Lat 35.43N Lon 31.56W.

Friday 13th March 1807.
C&D North 98 miles. First light variable winds, middle & latter increasing with cloudy weather and rain. AM People variously employed under the boatswain rigged the new driver boom. Lat 37.20N Lon 31.56W.

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Saturday 14th March 1807.
C&D N12E 172 miles. Strong breezes and thick weather. AM Fitted a pair of new swifters to the main mast otherwise employed making gaskets &c. Lat 40.8N Lon 31.10W.

Sunday 15th March 1807.
C&D N32E 141 miles. Fresh breezes with squalls & a heavy head sea. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. At daylight the Dina made signal for a strange sail in the NW quarter, she was standing to the southward. Commodore dropt astern to observe her motions & do he made the signal, stranger was suspicious. Lat 42.8N Lon 29.30W.

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Monday 10th March 1807.
C&D N42E 113 miles. Strong breezes with squalls & rain throughout. PM At 2 longitude per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon 33.40 west of Greenwich. AM People working up junk making gaskets &c. Quarter master on the main top sail. Lat 43.7N Lon 27.48W.

Tuesday 17th March 1807.
N54E 110 miles. Strong breezes with squally weather & rain for the most part. AM People employed as most useful. Lat 44.10N Lon 25.45W.

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Wednesday 18th March 1807.
C&D N54E 109 miles. First & middle parts strong breezes at ye SE, latter variable winds & hard rain with a heavy confused sea throughout. AM Employed as necessary. Lat 45.17N Lon 23.41W.

Thursday 19th March 1807.
C&D East 72 miles. Variable winds & hazy weather with a confused sea. AM People employed under the boatswain. Quarter master repairing old main top sail. Lat 45.17N Lon 21.59W.

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Friday 20th March 1807.
C&D N67E 135 miles. First & middle parts fresh breezes, latter moderate with cloudy weather throughout. AM Carried away the mast head sling of the fore yard, fitted a new one otherwise employed as necessary. Lat 46.11N Lon 19.1W.

Saturday 21st March 1807.
C&D N75E 119 miles. First part moderate, middle & latter strong breezes & squally with a head sea. PM Shifted fore top sail with new one. Commodore made 3 ships sights for long per chro' mean 27.3W. AM At daylight 2 strange sails in sight bearing WSW, standing for the fleet, cleared for action. At 8 the strangers joined one appeared a sloop of war the other a merchant ship. At 10 Commodore made a telegraph signal. The strangers were from Jamaica, lost convoy 3 days back - no intelligence. Lat 46.50N Lon 16.15W.

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Sunday 22nd March 1807.
C&D N67E 108 miles. First part strong gales, middle & latter more moderate with hard rain & thick hazy weather. AM The weather too unsettled perform divine service. Lat 47.40N Lon 13.49W.

Monday 23rd March 1807.
N78E 58 miles. C&D Variable winds with thick foggy weather & constant rain. AM Commodore fired a gun every half hour to denote his situation. Lat 47.52N Lon 12.24W.

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Tuesday 24th March 1807.
C&D N59E 62 miles. Light variable winds & calms with rain at times. PM At 2 another of the dispersed West India Convoy joined the fleet. AM People variously employed drying sails &c. At ½ past 11 Commodore went in chase of a schooner bearing SSE. Lat 48.36N Lon 11.4W.

Wednesday 25th March 1807.
C&D N53E 66 miles. Light variable breezes throughout & fair weather with a head sea. PM Commodore made a telegraphic signal that the Russians had gained a great victory of the French that it was peace between England & Prussia & the slave trade had stopped. AM People variously employed, washed the lower deck. Tigris sprung her bowsprit. Lat 49.15N Lon 9.40W.

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Thursday 26th March 1807.
C&D N52E 90 miles. First part moderate, middle & latter squally with rain. PM At 10 a brig belonging to the dispersed West India Convoy joined the fleet. AM People employed making plat for service. 31 sail in company. Lat 50.12N Lon 7.49.W.

Friday 27th March 1807.
C&D N47E 58 miles. Light variable winds & fair weather throughout. AM Employed under the boatswain. Sailmaker repairing old main top sail. Commodore telegraph signal to erase out of the order of sailing, the weather & sea divisions. Lat 50.51N Lon 6.43W.

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Saturday 28th March 1807.
C&D S58E 85 miles. Light breezes and fair weather throughout. PM Longitude per mean of fleet by chro' 17.29W. AM Cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns otherwise as necessary. Lat 50.8N Lon 4.49W.

Sunday 29th March 1807.
C&D S23E 71 miles. Light breezes with sharp squalls & cloudy weather. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine service. Mustered the people at their quarters. Lat 49.3N Lon 4.6W.

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Monday 30th March 1807.
C&D N20E 64 miles. Fresh breezes and squally weather throughout with a good deal of sea. PM Telegraph signal when sailing by the wind the weather line for time being, keep to windward unless ordered otherwise: do Do you understand the signal answer, yes. AM People variously employed under the boatswain & as necessary. Lat 50.3N Lon 3.32W.

Tuesday 31st March 1807.
C&D N5E 52 miles. First & middle parts light variable winds, latter an increasing breeze with cloudy weather for the most part. PM At 6 a small American ship joined the fleet. AM People employed under the boatswain. Sailmaker repairing old main top sail. At ¼ past 8 longitude per O & A 15.18W of Greenwich. Lat 50.53N Lon ----.

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Wednesday 1st April 1807.
C&D S62E 99 miles. Squally weather throughout with rain at times. PM Long per mean of the fleet per Lunars 14.56W. AM At 7 a small brig past through the fleet. People employed turning in the deck stoppers &c. Lat 50.3N Lon ----.

Thursday 2nd April 1807.
C&D S76E 92 miles. Variable winds and fair weather throughout. AM At 8 Commodore made signal of having gained soundings 86fms. At 10 per mean of 3 sights of the sun & moon longitude 10.46.25 west of Greenwich. At 11 the sling of the main yard broke. Employed fitting a new pair & as most necessary. Lat 49.47N Lon -----.

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Friday 3rd April 1807.
C&D S56E 24 miles. Light airs variable throughout. PM Longitude per mean of the fleet 10.37W. AM Bent cables and rove the starboard gear. Lat 49.32N Lon ----.

Saturday 4th April 1807.
C&D N39E 26 miles. Light variable breezes throughout & fair. PM A Lieut from H.M. ship Sampson came on board. Mustered our ships company & entered 3 men. AM People variously employed making nippers &c. Washed the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat 49.53N Lat ----.

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H C ship Georgiana

Sunday 5th April 1807.
C&D N85E 80 miles. First part light breezes and fair weather, middle & latter squally. AM The weather too unsettled to perform divine services. Lat 50.0N Lon -----.

Monday 6th April 1807.
C&D S80E 45 miles. Variable winds and fair weather with a heavy swell. PM A galiot [Dutch cargo boat] past the fleet a schooner is sight to windward. AM People working up junk, squaring rattlings &c. A small ship passed the fleet to windward. Lat 49.6N Lon -----.

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Tuesday 7th April 1807.
C&D S30E 58 miles. Fresh breezes and clear weather throughout. AM People employed about the rigging & as necessary. Lat 48.46N Lon -----.

Wednesday 8th April 1807.
C&D N32E 55 miles. Light variable winds & clear weather throughout. PM At ½ past 10 an outward bound fleet to Newfoundland. AM People employed as necessary under the boatswain, cleaned the lower deck & exercised the guns. Lat 49.37N Lon ----.

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H C ship Georgiana

Thursday 9th April 1807.
C&D S70E 30 miles. Variable light airs & fair weather throughout. AM At 9 H.M. ship Samson sent her boats and pressed all my hands, who sent ten hands & a midshipman to assist in navigating the ship. Lat 40.28N Lon ----.

Friday 10th April 1807.
C&D N74E 88 miles. First part light variable airs, middle and latter an increasing breeze at SSW. AM People employed as necessary roused up the small bower cable & coiled it in the lower deck. Several boats in the fleet. At noon the land bearing ENE distance about 8 leagues. Supposed it the Lizard. Lat 49.49.N Lon -----.

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Towards England.

Saturday 11th April 1807.
C&D N76E 156 miles. Strong breezes and hazy weather throughout. PM At 1 saw the Lizard Point bearing NbE about 7 or 8 leagues distance. At 4 the Lizard NWbN 9 or 10 leagues. The Commodore made a telegraph signal that a King's brig had joined the convoy. At 6 The Tigris run against us & broke our spare top sail yard & damaged the mizen channel on the larboard side. AM Unstowed the anchors otherwise as necessary. Lat 50.27N Lon ----.

Sunday 12th April 1807.
Fresh breezes and thick hazy weather throughout. PM At 5 saw the Isle of Wight bearing NEbE. At 4 Dunnose ENE, St Catherines Point north 3 or 4 leagues. At sunset St Catherines Point NWbN Dunnose NEbE off shore about 4 or 5 leagues. AM At noon passed the South Foreland. At ½ past noon anchored with the best bower in 9fms water, wore away to a whole cable service bearing South Foreland SW, North do NNE½E Buoy of the Break ENE, distance offshore about 2 leagues. At 2 Mr Underdown pilot took charge of the ship.

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H C ship Georgiana in the Downs

Monday 13th April 1807.
First part strong southerly winds, middle & latter moderate. At 10 AM weighed, at ½ past 10 passed the East Buoy of the Brake. At noon passed the North Foreland. At 3 passed through the Queens Channel, least water 5fms. At 5 anchored in 7fms water, The Two Sisters SBE, Isle of Sheppey WSW, the Oars Beacon S½E Scaled the guns & struck 4 off the quarter deck down into the fore hold to trim ship.

Tuesday 14th April 1807.
First part light breezes at ye southward, middle thick foggy weather & calm. At ½ past midnight weighed & worked up. At 5 came too in 8fms water Nore Light SbW. At noon weighed and dropped up to the Upper Hope. At 6 PM came too in 8fms water.

Wednesday 15th April 1807.
Squally weather with rain. At 8 AM Mr John Slaney pilot took charge of the ship. At ½ past 9 weighed, at 10 past Gravesend, at 3 PM lashed alongside the hulk at Blackwall opposite the new dock gates, at 5 I left the ship.

Thursday 16th April 1807.
Strong easterly winds & cloudy weather. At noon Mr Sandon came on board & opened the hatches. No people on board, 1st & 3rd officers on board.

Friday 17th April 1807.
Dark cloudy weather with snow sleet &c. very cold. 25 lumpers employed stripping the ship & getting ready to go into dock. Mr Jennings H. C. surveyor came on board. 1st & 2nd officers on board.

Saturday 18th April 1807.
Strong northerly winds with snow & very cold weather. 30 men employed delivering stores & stripping ship. 1st & 3rd officers on board.

Sunday 19th April 1807.
First part fair weather, middle cloudy with snow & sleet winds. At 8 AM Mr Slaney pilot took charge, cast off from the hulk & warped her into the basin. 15 lumpers on board. All the officers on board. I visited the ship but the dock officer would not allow me to go on board.

Monday 20th April 1807.
Ditto winds & weather. Employed delivering sundry stores 2nd & 3rd officers on board.

Tuesday 21st April 1807.
Moderate NE winds & fair weather. At 8 AM Mr Ford dock master warped the ship into the inner dock. Employed delivering hides &c. 1st & 3rd officers on board.

Wednesday 22nd April 1807.
Moderate winds from the SE & fair weather. Employed delivering wine &c. on account of the Hon'ble Basil Cochraine. All officers on board.

Thursday 23rd April 1807.
Variable light winds. Employed delivering wine &c. 1st & 3rd officers on board.

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Towards London.

Friday 24th April 1807.
Fresh breezes at ye westward with cloudy weather. 10 of the dock men employed stocking water & delivering stores. 1st & 3rd officers on board.

Saturday 25th April 1807.
Easterly winds & fair weather. At 10 AM Moved the ship out of the homeward bound dock into the outer bound dock. Employed delivering stores &c. At 3 The Excise & Custom House officers came on board & cleared the ship. 1st & 3rd officers on board.

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[The End]


The Ledger & Pay Book for this voyage has not been transcribed.


APPENDIX 1

Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms.

This section is now in a Separate page of its own under:
Glossary.


APPENDIX 2

Bibliography.

This section is now in a Separate page of its own under:
Bibliography.


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