Details

Compiled/​Created

17621101-17680519.

Summary note

Description: Logbooks recorded aboard the ships HMS Swift, HMS Prince Edward, HMS Essex and HMS Dolphin on a series of voyages in the Americas, Caribbean and Pacific. Accompanied by Drawings & Artworks, manuscript maps, notes on navigation, and detailed comment relating to port life, indigenous peoples, weather, colonial powers' fortifications, topography, and navigation.

Notes

AMDigital Reference: ADM 51/4540.

Original version

Reproduction of: Captains' Logs: HMS Swift, HMS Prince Edward, HMS Essex, HMS Dolphin 1 Nov 1762 - 19 May 1768.

Location of originals

The National Archives, UK

Copyright note

The National Archives, UK

Source of description

Description based on online resource (viewed on May 28, 2018).

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