Log of and notes on Normancourt by Frank Logan, 17 March 1879-13 July 1879

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Series 39/4
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Copy of journal kept by passenger Frank Logan on voyage of Normancourt, London to Sydney

(58p.)

Details of ship and crew; weather; daily run; sighting other ships; flying fish landing on deck; playing cribbage with Captain; visited Samuel Plimsoll, emigrant ship to obtain medical advice - not allowed on board due to measles epidemic; St Elmo's Fire; Crozet Islands sighted; St Paul's Island, gales; entering Sydney Heads.

Includes account of loss of Normancourt, wrecked off Holyhead in 1883 on voyage from Java with sugar.

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