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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/698A
Title:: Dartmouth: Journal
Scope & Content:: This volume consists of a journal (log book) of a voyage to Madras [Chennai] and Bengal in the East India Company ship Dartmouth, recorded by the Captain of the ship Thomas Beckford. The journal entries are dated 14 October 1710 to 17 August 1713. The inscriptions on folio 2 of the journal s...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 14 Oct 1710-18 Sep 1713
Extent:: 1 volume (131 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/705C
Title:: Somers: Journal
Scope & Content:: Journal of the East India Company ship Somers by John Sparks, third mate. The journal covers the ship's voyage from England to Bombay and its return to England, between 11 November 1711 and 28 March 1715 (Captain Eustace Peacock). The journal contains daily entries in two different formats. Fi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Nov 1711-28 Mar 1715
Extent:: 1 file (133 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/707A
Title:: Princess Anne: Journal
Scope & Content:: The journal of the East India Company ship Princess Anne, commanded by Captain Nicholas Luhorne (fl 1710-1725), covering the period from 20 September 1716 to 4 February 1719. The journal contains: The daily entries for the voyage from Deptford to Gravesend (19 October 1716), Margett [Margate] (3...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Sep 1716-4 Feb 1719
Extent:: 1 volume (184 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/713A
Title:: Josiah: Journal
Scope & Content:: Journal of the East India Company ship Josiah. The journal covers the ship's voyage from England to Bombay [Mumbai] between 9 January and 8 December 1704 (Captain Randall Pye). The journal contains daily entries in two different formats. Firstly, daily entries written in a journal style (folio...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Jan 1703-8 Dec 1704
Extent:: 1 file (80 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/713B
Title:: Abingdon: Journal
Scope & Content:: File containing fragments of two journals for two East India Company ships. The journals are as follows: journal of the Abingdon (folios 82-89), Captain John Goodfellow and Robert Pye, Chief Mate; journal of the Josiah (folios 90-137), Captain Randall Pye and Robert Pye, Chief Mate. The Abingdon...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Nov 1704-22 Apr 1706
Extent:: 1 file (66 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/716A
Title:: Donegal: Journal
Scope & Content:: Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship Donegal (referred to throughout as 'Donegall') from England to Bengal and Mocha, and back (Captain Henry Cliff), 1708-11 (dates given are for arrival unless otherwise indicated): set off in convoy from the Downs, 9 April 1708; left St Hellens ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Nov 1707-9 Aug 1711
Extent:: 1 volume (105 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/736A
Title:: Journals on Sampson (10 Apr 1784-10 Aug 1787, Abraham Munott), Alexander (1789), Prince of Orange (1790) and Ossory (Fragment of log, 15 May 1792-20 May 1792)
Scope & Content:: This volume includes journals on Sampson (10 April 1784-10 August 1787, Abraham Munott), Alexander (1789), Prince of Orange (1790) and Ossory (fragment of log, 15 May 1792-20 May 1792). Daily entries for when the ship was at sail consist of tables recording the following: hours (H), courses, kn...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1784-1792
Extent:: 1 volume (44 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/B/752A
Title:: Arabia Merchant: Journal
Scope & Content:: Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship Arabia Merchant (written as Arabia Marchant in the volume) from England to Mocho [Mocha] and Bombay [Mumbai], 1704-1707. The ship left England on 12 December 1704 and the journal covers its visits to the following places (dates are those of ar...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Aug 1704-30 Apr 1707
Extent:: 1 volume (99 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/C/4
Title:: 'MARINE RECORDS. MISCELLANEOUS. 4.'
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4 Mar 1606-20 Mar 1896
Extent:: 2 volumes (209 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/MAR/C/4, f 155-156
Title:: ‘A draught of the South land lately discovered’ [Tasmania] and Covering Sheet
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1643
Extent:: 1 map and 1 folio

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