• Title
  John Thomas Ewing Gowlland journals and logs, 1853-1871
• Creator
  John Thomas Ewing Gowlland, 1838-1874
• Call number
  MLMSS 830
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1853-1871
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Manuscript Cartographic Materials
• Reference code
  423025
• Issue Copy
  Photocopy : Xerox copies on open access.
  Microfilm : Biographical notes; logbooks, 1853-1857, for ships Victory, Rhadamanthus & Archer).
  Microfilm : Journals, logs, surveys, etc., 1853-1871).
  
• Physical Description
  box, 1 (2") box (total of 1,234 microfilm frames)
  2 boxes of textual material (total of 1,234 microfilm frames)
  
• Scope and Content
  Log-books of various ships during Commander Gowlland's Channel Service and Baltic expedition July 1853-Sept. 1855: HMS Victory (Portsmouth, July 1853), HMS Rhadamanthus (Channel Service, 1853-1854), HMS Archer (Baltic, 1854-1855 and American Survey, 1856-1857), HMS Fisgard (1857), HMS Ganges (South America, 1857-1858), HMS Cockatrice (1858), HMS Ganges (1858), HMS Plumper (Vancouver Island Survey, 1858-1859) and HMS Hydra (Mediterranean survey, 1864-1865). Journals of HMS Plumper (July 1859-Dec. 1860) and HMS Hecata (Jan. 1861-Jan. 1864) during which voyage Gowlland visited Sydney. Survey of N.S.W. in HM schooner Edith (1865-1869) with personal details. Journal of the Hunter and Richmond Rivers survey, June-July 1871. Information about Commander Gowlland compiled from various sources. Two extracts from Royal Society Procs. vols. XVIII and XIX entitled "Deep Sea Researches"
• Related Material
  Copy photographs of Gowlland family (9659614)
• Description source
  
  Information upgraded from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 1 (6-263B) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823762
• Name
  Archer (Ship)
  Edith (Schooner)
  Fisgard (Ship)
  Ganges (Ship)
  Gowlland, John Thomas Ewing, 1834-1874
  Hecate (Ship)
  Hydra (Ship)
  Plumper (Ship)
  Rhadamanthus (Ship)
  Victory (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Hunter River (N.S.W.)--Discovery and exploration.
  Hydrographic surveying.
  Richmond River (N.S.W.)--Discovery and exploration.
  Sailors--Great Britain--Archives.
  Surveyors, Marine--Archives.
  Logbooks--Great Britain.
  
• Place
  Hunter River (N.S.W.)
  Richmond River (N.S.W.)
  Sydney (N.S.W.)
  Portsmouth (England)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  O Rio de Janeiro na Rota Dos Mares Do Dul (Rio de Janeiro on the South Seas route) - Centro Cultural Correios, Rio de Janiero, Brazil (20 November, 2006 - 7 January, 2007). Applies to: Item 4 pp. 47b-c, 53b, 83b, 89
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3176209

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