Melbourne to Liverpool voyage via Cape Horn by a passenger, 28 January 1862-08 April 1862

Component identifier:

Item D 1862 pp.1-157

Content Summary:

Difficulty of boarding due to rough seas, purchase of provisions for voyage, death of child, entertainments-music, cards, catching fish and birds, parson refuses to conduct services unless allowed into saloon, sighting iceberg, visit to engines, details of ship's company and livestock carried, serving of lime juice after 38 days at sea, fancy dress ball, thieving, presentations to stewards. (photocopy of manuscript)

Also gives daily latitude and longitude positions and air and water temperatures.

Also includes newspaper cutting from Gloucestershire and Avon Life, 'Ten Years Down, Ten to Go,' September 1980 which discusses the restoration of the SS Great Britain and the finding of this diary.

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M2346

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