Edgecote: Journal

Title:

Edgecote: Journal

Date:

1755/1757

Description:

Abstract: Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship Edgecotefrom England to Bombay [Mumbai], April-November 1755, from Bombay to Surat January-February 1755 [New Style date 1756], from Surat to Mocha, April-May 1756, from Mocha to Bombay, August-September 1756, and from Bombay to England, December 1756-July 1757 (Captain John Pearce). Upon leaving England Edgecotewas accompanied by the East India Company ships Pelham, Houghton, Strethamand Doddington, but soon parted company with them.The journal consists of daily entries of information on navigation, winds, weather, contact with other ships, deaths of crewmembers, and general observations. Folio 1 provides the ship’s weight of kentlage (permanent ballast, usually made of pig-iron) and other ballast. A list of crew is provided on folios 2-3. Folio 69 describes an engagement against four Marrater [Maratha] ships.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1, and terminates at f 137; 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:

Ships logs
Weather
Trade (practice)
Marine navigation
Maratha Navy
Edgecote

Geographic region:

Surat
Mocha
Bombay

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000179.0x0002fb_ar
81055/vdc_100000000179.0x0002fb_en
IOR/L/MAR/B/599C
IOR/L/MAR/B/599C

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