Letters written and consultations held on board the Loyal Adventure during a voyage to the Philippine Islands and China
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Commission and instructions to Captain William Goodlad of the Loyal Adventure; consultations held aboard her during a voyage to the Philippine Islands and China; letters from Thomas Woolhouse, who was later employed as a writer by the East India Company in China, to John Cheney, writer of the Loy...
These volumes contain various documents relating to different voyages, mostly East India Company voyages. There is a list of contents of the volumes on folios 4-5 of the first volume, signed by W Foster, presumably William Foster, Registrar and Superintendent of Records at the India Office, da...
Steam Navigation to Internal and External Communications of India, Volume 8
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Papers and correspondence relating to the journals and diaries of explorations in the area of the Arabian Peninsula and surrounding waters in the context of improving navigation and communications between England and India. A list of contents is given on folio 10: 'Captain Mark Wood's Narrativ...
This volume contains: Accounts of goods received on board the East India Company ship Loyall Cook [usually written as Loyal Cooke], including East India Company goods, goods for the Captain and members of the crew, goods for the Supercargoes, stores of food and drink for the crew, Carpenter’s st...
Letters written or received by Captain Finch Reddall of the Samuel and Anna on its voyage to China and Bengal and back
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Copies of letters and orders relating to the ship Samuel & Anna - beginning with 'orders and instructions given by the Court of Directors of the English Company trading to the East Indies to Captain Finch Reddall, Commander of the ship Samuel & Anna, bound out in the service of the said C...