Drake: Journal

Title:

Drake: Journal

Date:

1729/1732

Description:

Journal of the voyage of the East India Company ship Drakefrom England to Calcutta [Kolkata, India], February 1728 [New Style date 1729]-August 1729, from Calcutta to Bombay [Mumbai, India], January 1729 [New Style date 1730]-May 1730, from Bombay to Surat, India, October 1730, from Surat to Gombroon [Bandar Abbas, Iran] and back, November 1730-April 1731, from Surat to Calcutta, May-June 1731, and from Calcutta to England, January 1731 [New Style date 1732]-August 1732 (Captain John Houghton).The journal consists of daily entries of information on navigation, winds, weather, and general observations. Some of the entries written in port include details of the loading and unloading of cargo and provisions.1 item (100 folios)The entries are recorded in chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 1, and terminates at f 100; 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 item

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Ships logs
Marine navigation
Trade (practice)
Weather

Geographic region:

Gombroon
Madras
Surat

Extent:

1 item (100 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000179.0x0001f7_ar
81055/vdc_100000000179.0x0001f7_en
IOR/L/MAR/B/578C

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

Feedback