William Driver - Logbook and memoir, 1831-1871

PMB 39

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440579

Microfilm : PMB 39

ne microfilm reel 35 mm

William Driver (1803-1886). Born at Salem, Massachusetts. Captain of the Charles Doggett, 1831-1837

The logbook is for the voyage of the Charles Doggett. It begins on Jan. 30, 1831, when the Charles Doggett was 2,098 sea miles from Salem en route to New Zealand, and ends in Mar. 1832, when the ship was gathering a cargo of beche-de-mer in Fiji. In the interval, calls were made at Tubuai, Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Anaa Atoll (Tuamotu Archipelago), Huahine, Palmerston Island, Samoa, Tahiti and Niuatoputapu (Tonga). Driver's visit to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti was for the purpose of returning the 65 descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who had been moved from Pitcairn to Tahiti four months earlier because it was feared that their island was becoming over populated. Driver described the episode in some detail in a memoir accompanying his logbook of the Charles Doggett. The memoir was written in 1871

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 39
Available for reference
Pambu No. 17 (December, 1969)
Microfilm copy of original held by Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.