Ilchester: Journal

Title:

Ilchester: Journal

Date:

1749/1751

Description:

Abstract: A journal (log book) of the second voyage of the East India Company ship Ilchester, recorded by the Captain of the ship John Tedd. The daily entries are dated 30 December 1749 to 7 October 1751.The journal includes the following inscriptions (on folio 1): ‘This is my Original Journal John Tedd’, ‘Witness Tho[mas] Reading’, and ‘Rec[eive]d 9th. Oct[obe]r. 1751’.The journal entries begin when the ship was at Deptford, and subsequently record the ship’s arrival at, and departure from, the following places (both Old Style and New Style dates are given in the journal): Morandava [Morondava], Madagascar (21 to 29 July 1750); Gombroon [Bandar Abbas] (3 September to 10 October 1750); Bombay [Mumbai] (24 November to 17 December 1750); Tillicherry [Thalassery] (27 January to 13 February 1750/51); Anjengo [Anchuthengu] (18 February to 3 March 1750/51); St Helena (19 to 30 June 1751). The ship arrived in the Downes [Downs] on 9 September 1751, after which it was at Woolwich, before it returned to Deptford.Daily entries for when the ship was in port mostly record: wind and other weather conditions; goods and stores received on board the ship; actions performed by members of the crew; goods and chests of treasure unloaded from the ship and sent ashore; and the arrival and departure of other ships.Daily entries for when the ship was at sea consist of tables recording the following: remarks, hours (H), knots (K), fathoms (F), courses, wind directions, comments on the weather, and other information. The other information mainly relates to the following: wind and other weather conditions and sea conditions; sightings and bearings of land; actions performed by members of the crew; and measurements of the course of the ship, distance, and latitude and longitude. The entries also record scurvy amongst the crew.The journal also includes a loose folio (folio 2) inserted into it, which is an invoice ‘For Bringing up the Godolphin. Cap[tain] Stevens Commander from Woolwich to Blackwall’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1, and terminates at f 119; it is part of a larger physical volume of different shelfmarks in which this shelfmark has been given its own separate foliation sequence, i.e. non-consecutive; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Ilchester

Geographic region:

Morandava
Gombroon

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000179.0x00030a_ar
81055/vdc_100000000179.0x00030a_en
IOR/L/MAR/B/601B
IOR/L/MAR/B/601B

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