• Title
  Item 08: A Logg [Log] Book of the proceedings on Board His Majesty's Ship Swallow, Captain Philip Carteret Commander Commencing from the 20th August 1766 and Ending [21st May 1768]
• Creator
  William Kirton
• Call number
  DLMSQ 411
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  20 August 1766 to 21 May 1768
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Drawings
• Reference code
  1336582
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : MAV/FM4/2221
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.05 metres of textual material, some pages include drawings (1 volume) - pencil; 32 x 21 cm. - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Logbook of the sloop Swallow from 20 August 1766 to 21 May 1768 in William Kirton's hand, bound in vellum. The logbook has been kept in two styles. At times it has columns headed H, K and F, for Hours, Knots and Fathoms, followed by Remarks with the date. At other occasions it has Days, Month, Winds, Remarks.
  
  Pages 1 to 267 contain the logbook.
  
  Pages 292 to 294 contain pencil drawings of a coastal profile of "A view of the coast of Patagonia from Cape Blanco to Pengwin Island.
  
  Pages 298 to 300
  Days Works from 19 November to 17 December 1766 - Untitled.
  Days Works from Cape Pillar towards the Island of Juan Fernandez, 16 April to 8 May 1767.
  Days Works from the Island of Masafuera from the 25 May to 26 June 1767.
• System of arrangement
  Pages 1 to 267 contain the logbook; pages 268 to 291 are blank; pages 292 to 294 contain illustrations; pages 295 to 297 are blank; pages 298 to 300 contain Latitude and Longitude of Days Works.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Research & study copies allowed: Author has been deceased for more than 50 years
  Please acknowledge:: Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales
• Description source
  
  Title page of logbook.
• Variant title
  
  Cover title: A Log Book for His Majesty's Sloop Swallow 1766, W.K.
• General note
  
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1336619
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  W.K. on cover for William Kirton.
• Conservation note
  
  Vellum cover is coming loose. Tear in vellum on back cover.
• Name
  Swallow (Ship)
  Carteret, Philip, d. 1796
  
• Subject
  Dixson Library (N.S.W.)
  Logbooks.
  Voyages and travels--18th century.
  Great Britain. Royal Navy--Officers--Diaries
  Pacific Ocean--Discovery and exploration--British.
  
• Topic
  coasts
  seascapes (views)
  mountains
  
• Place
  Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)
  Patagonia
  South America
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE777306

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