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Identification: MSS 097, Item 076
Creator: Clifford, William John Cavendish, fl. 1830-1834.
Title: Log of H.M. Ship Undaunted
Inclusive Dates: 1830 November 3-1834 February 10
Extent: 1 v. (ca. 210 p.) ; 34 cm.
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.
Language: Materials entirely in English.
MSS 097, Item 076, William John Cavendish Clifford, Log of H.M. Ship Undaunted , Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Item 076: Shelved in SPEC MSS 097
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Purchase, 1958.
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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.
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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.
Log of H.M. Ship Undaunted , 1830 November 3-1834 February 10 [Item 076]
