440379
- TitleJoseph Edward Hawkins 'Journal of the Schooner Thistle or a Cruise to the Solomon Islands, A.D. 1891'
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- Call numberMLMSS 7350
- Level of descriptionfonds
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1891 - Type of material
- Reference code440379
- Issue CopyMicrofilm : CY 4722, frames 61-86 (MLMSS 7350)
- Physical Description1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript) - ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
Joseph Edward Hawkins, master of the schooner Thistle, sailed from Sydney on 25 March 1891 on a trading voyage to Noumea and the Solomon Islands where he collected a cargo of copra, ivory nuts and turtle shells. He returned to Sydney on 4 July 1891. - Scope and ContentJournal of J.E. Hawkins on the Thistle. Includes a list of the crew and one passenger, Thomas Jennings of Balmain, Sydney. The fin of a flying fish (?) was found between the pages beginning 25 May and 29 May. Inscribed by Hawkins : 'To my young and esteemed Balmain friends this journal is most respectfully written, 1891'.
- Finding AidsTranscript available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2011/D04793/a2219.pdf
- General note
The Mitchell Library also holds the log of the barque Nautilus, commanded by Joseph Edward Hawkins on a blackbirding voyage in 1887-1888 (MLMSS 2842: microfilm copy at CY 3107, frames 1-34). - Name
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