'A Journal of a Voyage Intended by Gods Permission From Gomaroone in Persia To the River of Thames in Great Brittaine in the Good Ship Bouverie.'

Content

Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship Bouverie from Gomaroone [Gombroon, Bandar Abbas] towards Great Britain (Captain Thomas Wotton), 29 June 1719-16 August 1720 (dates given are for arrival unless otherwise indicated): left Bandar Abbas, 29 June 1719; 16 August 1719, Madarass [Madras]; 25 September 1719, Ballasore [Balasore]; 14 October 1719, Fort William [Calcutta]; 24 December 1719, Coxes [Cox's Bazar]; 11 May 1720, St Hellena [St Helena].

Inscribed: 'This is my Origional [original] Journall, Thos. Wotton' (folio 1).

Marked: 'Recd. 7ber y. 29th. 1720 [Received, 29 September 1720]' (folio 1).

The journal contains daily entries in seven columns: [navigational information (latitude by account and observation, meridional distance from a fixed point, difference of longitude, and variation)]; H [Hour]; K [Knots]; F [Fathoms]; Courses; Winds; and [date and remarks]. When the ship is at anchor, entries consist of remarks only.

The journal records: navigational information; weather; the maintenance of the ship; details of the other ships with which the Bouverie sailed in convoy; contact with other British ships; sightings of other vessels; commodities carried; sightings of sea birds and marine animals; and general remarks.

A report of news from the British Isles: folio 73.

The journal is double-dated where necessary, giving both Old and New Style dates.

The record is part of a volume containing two separate log books: Bouverie : Journal, Chief Mate The sailor subordinate to the Captain. Thomas Meacham, 1713-16 (IOR/L/MAR/B/692B), and 'A Journal of a Voyage Intended by Gods Permission From Gomaroone in Persia To the River of Thames in Great Brittaine in the Good Ship Bouverie.', 1719-20 (IOR/L/MAR/B/692C).

Extent and format

1 file (80 folios)

Arrangement

The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1, and terminates at f 80; it is part of a larger physical volume of different shelfmarks in which every shelfmark has been given its own separate foliation sequence, i.e. non-consecutive; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/MAR/B/692C

History of this record

Date(s)

29 Jun 1719-29 Sep 1720 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

ShipsShips logsSeabirdsTrade (practice)WeatherMarine navigation

Places

Gomaroone

People & organisations

Bouverie

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