A Log of the proceedings on board His Majesty's Sloop Providence, 20 June 1796-27 November 1797

 
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Voyage from California to the Sandwich Islands, Coast of Japan, Land of Insoo, Kurile Islands and returning to China.

Proceedings continued from China in 1797 to the loss of Providence off the island of Tayping-chan and the prosecution of the voyage in the tender from July 1797 to the end of the year, during which time the Islands of Lieuchieux, the Eastern Coast of Japan, the Land of Insoo with the Tartarian and Corean Coasts were examined by William Robert Broughton Esqr., Commander.

W.R. Broughton was made commander of the Providence in October 1793 and sent to the N.W. coast of North America. He proceeded to the other side of America and then spent four years surveying the coast of Asia from latitude 52 degrees N. to 35 degrees N.

On 16th May 1797, H.M.S. Providence struck on a coral reef on the coast of Formosa and was totally lost. He was saved and taken to Macao in the tender in which Broughton afterwards continued the survey till May 1798 when he was discharged at Trincomalee for a passage to England where he arrived the following February.

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