File 2: Log books

SAFE/A 564/1 (Safe 1/407)
SAFE/A 564/2 (Safe 1/408)
Safe 1/44
Safe 1/48

file

1791-1793

9653373

Textual material - manuscript

CONTENTS:

Personal log books containing a daily log account of hourly entries (climatic conditions, navigational data and brief comments) running from noon to noon, together with journal entries titled 'Remarks', being an amplification of the comments. These logs were used to produce the official log deposited with the Admiralty at the end of the voyage. Included with the logs are two draft journal extracts.

ITEM 1
'A Log of the proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Providence on a second Voyage to the South Sea Under the command of Captain William Bligh, to carry the Breadfruit Plant from the Society Islands to the West Indies, written by himself', volume 1 [SAFE/A 564/1 (Safe 1/407)].

ITEM 2
'A Log of the proceedings of His Majesty's Ship Providence on a second Voyage to the South Sea Under the command of Captain William Bligh, to carry the Breadfruit Plant from the Society Islands to the West Indies, written by himself', volume 2 [SAFE/A 564/2 (Safe 1/408)].

ITEM 3
Fragment of draft journal in Bligh's hand, August-10 September 1791 (Safe 1/44).

ITEM 4
Fragment of draft journal in Bligh's hand, 7 November-22 December 1791 (Safe 1/48).

ITEM 5
'An account of the Root called Peeah and of its use' (Safe 1/48).

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