Chief Officer, A.P. Jackson. Diary of voyage in Antarctic Relief Ship Terra Nova (37p.), 19 August 1903-29 March 1904

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Details of: Boarding ship at Dundee 'a dirty little barque'; arrangements onboard; voyage to Hobart; 'no library aboard, wish I had brought more books'; weather; Malta; Port Said; Suez Canal; Aden; trouble with drunken crew at Hobart - Mitchell sentenced to three months hard labour for assault; voyage South; Winter clothes given out; sighting icebergs; pack ice; Scott Island; met with Discovery; visited by Captain Scott; blasting away ice to release Discovery; coaling Discovery; voyage to Auckland.

At back: two menus for banquets at Christchurch, 7-8 April 1904.

2 press cuttings of photographs of Terra Nova and her officers.

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