Henry Thompson journals of voyages between England and Australia on Barque Ceres and Barque Aden, 1841-1844

MLMSS 9944

fonds

1841-1844

Textual Records, Drawings

1007930

0.21 metres of textual material, including 7 drawings (1 box) - manuscript, pencil, ink

Henry (Harry) Thompson was an apprentice navigator on the Viscount Melbourne, a merchant ship that was wrecked in the South China Sea in 1842. In 1843-44, he sailed to Australia on the merchant ship Aden returning to England in the same year.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

From Lodge & Thomas in the UK, 2016.

Two illustrated journals compiled by English merchant seaman Henry (Harry)Thompson, accounting various voyages to Australia in 1842-44 and back to England in 1844. Includes eyewitness accounts of the Battle of the Bogue, First Opium War, February 1841, his survival of the wreck of the Viscount Melbourne on the Luconia Shoals in the South China Sea 1842, Sydney and Port Phillip in New South Wales 1843-1844, including an important description and illustration of Aborigines at Williamstown, Calcutta and Sierra Leone.

Item 01
H. Thompson journal, 31st December 1842-29th August 1844. Includes:
Journal of a voyage from London to Sierra Leone in the Barque Ceres, T.M. Tilby, commencing December 31st, 1842 ending March 6th, 1843 by H. Thompson (pp 1-84)
A Journal of a voyage from London to Sydney in the Barque Aden, 422 tons register, A.S. Wadell, Commandr., commencing September 1st, 1843-January, 3rd 1844 by H. Thompson (pp 86-149)
From Port Phillip Towds. London, 28 March 1844-29 August 1844 (pp. 150-170)

Item 02
Journals of Voyages to Different Parts of the World by H. Thompson; 30th March 1844-3rd December 1844. Includes:
Journal of a voyage from Port Phillip towds. London in the Barque Aden (continued), 30 March 1844-29 August 1844, by H. Thompson (front, pp 1-51), with a vignette pencil sketch of the Barque Aden and a full page ink and wash drawing titled Natives of New South Wales
Journal of a voyage from London to Sierra Leone in the Barque Ceres, Thomas Martin Tilby, Commandr., 28 October 1844- 3 December 1844, by H. Thompson (front, pp 52-112), including sections titled In Sierra Leone (pp 70-77) and In Yoorie Bay (pp 78-98), with a full page pencil sketch of the Barque Ceres
Extract from an account of the China War 1841, by H. Thompson (rear, pp [2], 1-12), title page illustrated with vignette ink drawing of a gunboat
The loss of the ship Viscount Melbourne, by H. Thompson (rear, pp [2], 1-32), title page with vignette illustrations and last page with full page pencil drawing of the Viscount Melbourne
A Day in Calcutta (rear, pp 2-12), title page with vignette illustrations, vignette ink sketch of Islamic and Christian flags at foot of last page

Copyright status:: In copyright
Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years