Add MS 89299/1

Log-book kept by Midshipman Herbert Reginald Norbury, while serving on HMS Blake, HMS Emerald, HMS Victoria, HMS Sans Pareil and HMS Ramillies, in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 3 February 1892-28 Feb 1894. It includes a description of the loss of HMS Victoria, 22 June 1893, charts, drawings and technical diagrams. Log kept in a leather bound naval log-book, printed by Waterlow & Sons for HMSO, Admiralty S. 519 (late S. 625).

Summary of service:

• HMS Blake 3 Feb-24 March 1892 (Portsmouth, Bermuda)
• HMS Emerald 25 March-17 November 1892 (mostly on fishing duties in north Atlantic; then Portsmouth – Malta)
• HMS Victoria 10-17 December 1892
• HMS Sans Pareil, 21 December 1892-15 November 1893 (Malta, Greece, Malta, Greece, Beirut, off Tripoli, Greece)
• HMS Ramillies 15 November 1893-28 February 1894 (Corfu, Greece, Malta)

Charts, drawings and technical diagrams pasted onto blank pages at end of each month include:

• frontispiece: watercolour of a lighthouse, framed by flags, tackle, an anchor, and an outer border of stud link anchor cable
• chart of Bermuda Islands
• track of HMS Blake from Portsmouth to Bermuda
• mooring swivel
• compressor
• track chart of HMS Emerald from Bermuda to St Georges Bay, Nova Scotia
• track chart from St Johns Harbour Newfoundland tp Port Saunders, Strait of Belle Isle
• inclined hand lamp
• method of raising screw
• distinguishing marks for small ammunition boxes
• pistol for Bickford’s fuse
• chart of The Narrows, Bermuda
• Detonatrix Mark IV and Detonator XV, Mark II
• track chart of HMS Emerald around Newfoundland
• Naval countermine
• watercolour of unidentified sailing ship [HMS Emerald?]
• track of HMS Emerald from St Johns Newfoundland to Plymouth, England
• section of armour bulkhead aft
• sketch of steel derrick, HMS Sans Pareil
• plan showing method of securing and making ends of battery watertight
• pen and ink drawing of HMS Sans Pareil
• flooding valve to magazine
• track chart from Portsmouth to Gibraltar
• track chart from Gulf of Volos, Greece to Thasos Island
• track chart of HMS Tamar from Gibraltar to Malta
• sketch shewing plan of framing behind armour
• athwartship section shewing armour
• track of Sans Pareil from Malta to Nauplia, Greece
• photograph of HMS Victoria sinking after the collision, 22 June 1893, with HMS Nile on the left
• chart showing the disposition of the ships at the time of the collision, off the coast of Tripoli
• ‘Loss of HMS Victoria’ manuscript account
• sketch of Robinsons Patent Lowering Apparatus, one side removed
• track chart of HMS Sans Pareil 13 June – 8 July 1893
• sketch of frame fore side of double bottom HMS Sans Pareil
• chart of Moudros Bay, Lemnos
• track chart of HMS Sans Pareil from Tripoli to Suda Bay
• track chart of HMS Sans Pareil from Suda Bay to Malta
• track chart from Malta to Marea
• chart of channel between Turkey and Thasos
• chart of the Gulf of Volo
• chart of the Gulf of Salonika
• cruise of squadron from 23 August to 22 September 1893
• sketch of stern post and rudder, HMS Sans Pareil
• track of HMS Sans Pareil from Navarino to Taranto
• plan of HMS Sans Pareil showing distribution of armour
• cross section sketch of HMS Ramillies
• track chart of HMS Sans Pareil from Taranto to Gibraltar and then returning to Malta
• mounting of 6” Q.F. in casemate
• track chart of HMS Romillies from between Malta and Greece
• Finis: final decorative page showing names of ships, flags, and dates served.