• Title
  Item 01: Log book of the ship Marquis Cornwallis, 1 February-1 November 1796
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 7491 (Safe 1/242)
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1 February-1 November 1796
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  442748
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.07 metres of textual material (1 volume in box) - manuscript
  
• Scope and Content
  Daily log of the Marquis Cornwallis from 1 February to 1 November 1796. The folio log is enclosed in a sailcloth cover which is lettered in ink: 'Ship Marqs. Cornwallis. Log book 1795 & 1796'. The log records courses, speeds, wind, weather, latitudes, and daily events on the ship including work done by sailors and convicts. It also records sightings of land, movements of other ships, trading with natives, and occasionally the names of seamen and passengers. The entries in the log are written in several hands by the watchmen. Some entries are signed by officers: Henry Moor, Hugh Reid, J. Waine and John Roberts.
  The log records the ship's arrival in Sydney on 11 February. In the following days the guards and convicts disembarked and the cargo was unloaded. The ship left Sydney on 15 May to return to England by way of Norfolk Island, the New Hebrides, the northern coast of New Guinea, Buton (Celebes), the roads of Madras, and Calcutta. The log ends on 1 November when the ship was taking on cargo at Calcutta.
• Finding Aids
  Transcript available online - acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2013/D14882/a1194.pdf
• General note
  
  The first part of the log which would have included details of the mutiny was probably detached and used at the Court of Enquiry. It is not known to have survived. The log from Calcutta to England is held in the India Records Office in London.
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 4569, frames 1-81.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823473
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Hogan, Michael, 1766-1833
  Moor, Henry
  
• Name
  Hogan, Michael, 1766-1833
  Marquis Cornwallis (Ship)
  
• Subject
  Convict ships.
  Logbooks.
  Mutiny.
  Voyages and travels--18th century.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1064518

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