Call Number:

Item 0076

Repository:

University of Delaware Library Special Collections

Extent:

1 volume (circa 210 pages)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

MSS 0097, Item 0076, William John Cavendish Clifford, Log of H.M. Ship Undaunted, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

Date:

1830 november 3-1834 february 10 (inclusive)

Creator:

Clifford, William John Cavendish, active 1830-1834

Form:

Ships' logs

Abstract:

Official log book kept by William John Cavendish Clifford of the British Royal Navy aboard the HMS Undaunted describing the ship's travels through ports in St. Helena and Sierra Leone from November 3, 1830, to February 10, 1834.

William John Cavendish Clifford was a crewman aboard the HMS Undaunted during its military tour from Portsmouth, Great Britain, to ports such as St. Helena and Sierra Leone, from November 3, 1830, to February 10, 1834. The captain of the vessel was Edward Harvey, Esquire.

Information derived from the collection.

William John Cavendish Clifford was a crewman aboard the HMS Undaunted during its military tour from Portsmouth, Great Britain, to ports such as St. Helena and Sierra Leone, from November 3, 1830, to February 10, 1834. The captain of the vessel was Edward Harvey, Esquire. The logbook covers weather and navigational information as well as information about crew duties and punishments for infractions of the rules (such as drunkenness).

The journal is one leather bound volume, circa 120 pages with entries in ink. A half of a ship was drawn on the first page of the logbook, rendered in ink and pencil.