Original journal and log covering voyages in Windsor, Balance, Northumberland and Orwell, 1852-1858
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- Item Volume 2
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220pp. The entries for the voyages of the Windsor and Balance are much more detailed than in Volume I and, as is to be expected, the quality of the writing is far more variable. There are only logs (that is, single line entries giving position, course, distance, barometer, thermometer, winds, remarks) for the voyages of the Northumberland and Orwell, but on the Northumberland voyage there is a journal for the period that the ship was at Melbourne.
In the years 1852-1858 Weynton visited Australia four times. The Australian sections are as follows.
pp. 1-138 Windsor London-Melbourne-Sydney-London-Sydney-London July 1852-April 1854
pp.186-200 Northumberland London-Melbourne-London June 1857-February 1858
pp.191-95 Stay at Melbourne August-October 1857
pp.201-7 Orwell London-Melbourne-London May-December 1858
The other voyages are of some interest. The Windsor carried coolies from Calcutta to Trinidad in 1854-1855. The Balance was in the French Transport Service and sailed between Marseilles and Constantinople carrying cargoes and troops in 1856.
The volume contains 13 watercolour sketches and many pen sketches, mostly of ships and people.
At the end are several pages of poetry from the Windsor Review and the log of the Windsor, July 1852-May 1855.
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