Glatton: Journal, Charles Drummond, Captain

Title:

Glatton: Journal, Charles Drummond, Captain

Date:

1782/1786

Description:

Abstract: This file consists of a journal (log book) kept by Charles Drummond, Captain of the East India Company ship Glatton. The entries begin on 13 December 1782, when the ship was at Deptford, and continue up to 14 June 1785, when the ship was at Madras.The journal contains daily entries which mostly record the following: winds and other weather conditions; navigational information; the tasks the crew had performed on board the ship; provisions received on board the ship when it was in port; and ships with which the Glattonwas sailing in company. The entries for each day the ship was at sea also include tables recording the following: H [Hour], Courses, K [Knots], F [Fathoms], Winds [et cetera]; and navigational measurements.The journal records the ship anchoring at the following places: Gravesend (13 January 1783); the Downs (9 March 1783); the Motherbank (11 March 1783); St Iago [Santiago, Cape Verde] (9 April 1783); Joanna [Anjouan] (19 August 1783); Bombay (20 September 1783); Mangalore (20 November 1783); Tellicherry [Thalassery] (3 December 1783); Cannanore [Kannur] (9 December 1783); Tellicherry (20 December 1783); Cochin [Kochi] (25 December 1783); Cannanore (13 January 1784); Bombay (5 February 1783); Surat (2 March 1784); Mocha (2 May 1784); Cochin (18 October 1784); Bombay (10 September 1784); Kedgeree [Khejuri] (27 November 1784); Madras (18 April 1785); Bencoolen [Benkulu] (27 July 1785); Pring [Penang] (30 August 1785); Bencoolen (6 October 1785); Table Bay (14 December 1785); St Helena (7 January 1786); Motherbank (26 March 1786); Gravesend (16 April 1786); and Deptford (17 April 1786).The journal also includes:A list of officers and seamen on board the Glatton, with columns recording: the number assigned to each crew member; the name of each crew member; their station (position); where they had entered the ship; their wages per month; and whether they were dead, had run away, or had been dischargedA list of East India Company recruits (soldiers) bound for India in the Glattonwith columns recording: the number assigned to each recruit; their names; when they were recruited; whether they had died, had run away, or had been discharged; and where and when they were deliveredA list of passengers in the Glatton, with their names, and the ports they were travelling from and travelling to.The statements ‘This is my original journal part the first Cha[rle]s Drummond’, ‘Witness Rob[ert] Alex[ande]r Druce’ and ‘Rec[eive]d 18th Ap[ri]l 1786’ are written on the verso of the first folio of the file.The first part of the journal (part H of H-I) is part of a volume containing three separate log books: Glatton: Journal, Richard Doveton, Captain (IOR/L/MAR/B/172F); Glatton: Journal, John Clements, Captain (IOR/L/MAR/B/172G); and Glatton: Journal, Charles Drummond, Captain (IOR/L/MAR/B/172H-I, with part I being contained within a second volume).Physical description: Foliation: this file consists of one file (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) and one physical volume. The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio of the file (ff 1-135) and terminates at the inside back cover of the volume (ff 136-279); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 200-277, which have not been digitised.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Glatton

Geographic region:

Pring

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000001441.0x0000fe_ar
81055/vdc_100000001441.0x0000fe_en
IOR/L/MAR/B/172H-I
IOR/L/MAR/B/172H-I

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