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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Babelmandel, Asia Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/MAR/B/245B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/245B
Title:
Princess Charlotte: Journal
Scope & Content:
Journal of the voyage of the Princess Charlotte from England to Madras, Bengal, Bombay, and Mocha, and back (Captain Charles Elton Prescott), 6 January 1798-5 November 1800: left Portsmouth, 24 March 1798; 30 May 1798, Cape of Good Hope; 18 August 1798, Madras; 26 September 1798, Calcutta; 14 De...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1798-10 Nov 1800
Extent:
1 file (181 folios)

2. IOR/L/MAR/B/481B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/481B
Title:
Bute: Journal
Scope & Content:
The journal of the East India Company ship Bute by Captain Maitland Commander. The journal contains: ‘A List of Officers Seamen & c. on Board the Ship’ (ff 2-4) and ‘A List of the Hon:ble Companies Soldiers for Madrass’ (ff 5-6) The journal also includes daily entries for the voyage (dates ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1766-7 Jul 1769
Extent:

1 file (152 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/B/679E

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/679E
Title:
Morice: Journal, John Cary, Chief Mate
Scope & Content:
A journal recording a voyage of the East India Company ship Morice from England to Mocha. The journal was recorded by the Chief Mate John Cary, and the Captain of the ship was Christopher Wilson (also spelled Willson in the journal). The journal entries are dated 24 August 1728 to 22 January 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1728-3 Jun 1730
Extent:

1 file (67 folios)

4. IOR/L/MAR/B/685A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/685A
Title:
Barrington: Journal
Scope & Content:
The journal of the East India Company ship Barrington by Captain John Hunter from 24 August 1722 to 12 March 1724. The journal contains entries providing the dates of arrival at various ports of call in both Old and New Style: The daily entries for the voyage from Deptford to Gravesend (26 Sept...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1722-12 Mar 1724
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)

5. IOR/L/MAR/C/586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/586
Title:
Survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company's Cruiser Ternate
Scope & Content:
A survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company cruisers the Ternate and the Sylph (1810-1811). Folios 23-142 contain a report of proceedings on board the Ternate, 1 January-25 September 1811. The report contains: The daily entri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1811
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

6. Mss Eur G45/8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/8
Title:
‘My Scrap Book volume III’ Artist: Augustus Fortunatus Bellasis (1822–1872)
Scope & Content:
Genre & Subject Matter As well as photographs, a map, an engraving, lithographs, etchings, printed matter and handwritten documents, this album contains sixty-eight pencil, watercolour or pen-and-ink drawings. Twenty-eight drawings (including those from folios 23–73) were made while on leav...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1850-1853
Extent:

139 folios, including 105 items (68 drawings; 1 hand-drawn map; 1 engraving; 2 lithogaphs; 7 etchings; 11 handwritten documents; 12 printed matter; 3 photographs) inserted or pasted into a half bound leather and marbled paper volume

7. Mss Eur G45/8, f 26

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G45/8, f 26
Title:
‘Straits of Babelmandel. 12 Novr 1850.’
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter Pencil sketch on paper. The sketch shows three, presumably sequential, topographical views of the coastal region at the Bab el-Mandeb strait (12° 34' 34” North, 43° 21' 11” East) between Arabia (Yemen) and Africa (Djibouti and Eritrea). This strait, consisting of a two-mil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1850
Extent:

1 drawing on paper, pasted into volume

8. WD36

Reference (shelfmark):
WD36
Title:
'Babelmandel', by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the straits of Babelmandel [Bab-el-Mandeb]. A steamer is visible at left. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. Inscriptions: Recto: Lower left, pen a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour and ink drawing on watercolour paper

9. WD3528-3532

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3528-3532
Title:
Drawings of the coast around Aden and along the Red Sea made during Elwon’s survey to establish the best course for steamers travelling to and from Suez by Thomas Elwon (1793/4-1835)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: A series of coastal profiles in pencil record the survey of the Red Sea undertaken by Captain Thomas Elwon of the Benares that took place between 1829-1834 to establish the best course for steamers to and from Suez. Taken from a sketch book inscribed on the first page ‘C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829-1834
Extent:
9 topographical views on 4 sheets of paper

10. WD3535

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3535
Title:
Two views of the coast of Babelmandel Cape [Ras Bab-el-Mandeb] by Thomas Elwon (1793/4–1835)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: These two sequential topographical views of Babelmandel Cape [Ras Bab-el-Mandeb], sketched from on board ship. The area shown is a fully worked view based on the sketches found in WD3528 and show the following features of the coastline, from left to right: Fisher’s or Pi...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1829-1834
Extent:

2 sequential, topographical, watercolour views on 1 sheet of paper