Ship's Log of the General Goddard, between England and India, 1789-1790 (Travel Diaries and Journals)

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H	Courses	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Saturday
1	SSE	4	6	Vble [Variable] Fair
2	S B E	4	"
3	NE 1/2 N	2	4
4		2	"		Variation Pr Ayth 24:40
5		2	"		P Ampd 24:15
6		1	6
7		1	6
8		1	6
9	NNE 1/2 E	1	6
10		1	6
11		1	4
12		1	4
1	H N B E	"	"
2	ESE	2	"	Calms Taken a back
3		2	2
4	SE B S	3	2
5	SSE 1/2 E	3	2
6		3	4		Long [Longitude] by last sight of 0 & [cresent] 25:9
7	SE	4	2	Passed a brig
8		4	2
9	SE 1/2 E	3	"
10		3	2
11	SE B E	2			Lat [Latitude] Obsd [Observed] 45:44
12	ESE	2
			Dist P Log 60 Miles

Course	Dist	X Lat	Dept	Lat Act
S 83 E	32	4	32	45:37	45	23:4

H	Courses	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Sunday 16 May
1	E B S	2	2	NE B N
2		2	2
3	E 1/2 S	2	2	NNE	Light Winds Variable and mostly fair Weather
4		3	2
5		2	"
6		2	4
7	E B S	2	"
8		4	4
9	East	5
10	E B S	6	"
11	E 1/2 S	6	2	North	Long [Longitude] by last sight 0 N [cresent] 22:35
12		5
1		5
2		5
3		5	2
4		5	2
5	ESE	6	"
6		6	6	NE
7	SE	6	2
8		4	2	NE B N	Lat [Latitude] Obsd [Observed] 45:50
9	SE B S	5	2
10		6
11	SE	6
12		6
			Dist P Log 116 Miles

Course	Dist	X Lat	Dept	Lat Act	X Long	Long in
N 85 E	107	7	107	43:53	15.4	20:31

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H	Courses	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Monday 17 May
1	ESE	5			NE Cloudy
2		4	4
3		4	"
4	SE B E	5	6		The first part light Winds the middle Calm the latter an increasing [breeze?] mostly fair weather
5	SE 1/2 E	4	"
6		5	6
7		4	"
8		4	6
9	SE	4
10		3
11	E B N	"		Calm
12	East		"
1		"
2		1	4	ESE
3		4	2	E B S
4		4	4
5		5	6	South	Long [Longitude] by last sight 0 & [cresent] 19:52
6		6	4
7		8
8		9
9		10			Lat [Latitude] Obsd [Observed] 46:7
10		10
11		10
12		9
			Dist P Log 124

Course	Dist	X Lat	Dept	Lat Acct	X Long	Long in
N 82 E	114	16	113		163	17:48

H	Courses	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Tuesday 18 May
1	East	9	4	S B W Rain
2		9	3
3		9	4
4		9	"		In 1 Reef main top sail lowered down the mizen [galf?]
5		10	"
6		10	"
7		10	"	Passed a brig down top galt [gallant] yards
8		10	"
9		8	6
10		8	5	In 2 Reef mizen top sail
11		8	4
12		8		Out 1 Reef main top sail
1		8			A fresh gale and mostly cloudy rainy weather throughout
2		8	2
3		9	2
4		9	3
5		9	4
6		9	3		Long [Longitude] by last sight 0 & [cresent] 14:57
7		9	7
8		10			Out 2 Reef mizen top sail
9		9
10		9
11		8			Lat [Latitude] Obs [Observed] 47:47
12		9
			Dist P Log 222 Miles

Course	Dist	X Lat	Dept	Lat Act	X Long	Long in
N 66 E	222	90	203	47:57	295	12:59

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H	Courses	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Wednesday 19 May
1	East	9		NW B W
2		9	6
3		9	2	NW
4		9	2
5		10	"		Passed a brig standing to ye [the] Westward
6		10	"
7		9	6
8		9	6
9		8	"
10		9	4
11		9	4
12		9	"
1		9	6
2		9	"
3		8	"
4		8	2
5		8	2
6		8	6	W B N	Long [Longitude] by last sight 0 & [cresent] 9:57
7		8	2
8		8
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			Dist P Log 220 Miles

Course	Dist	X Lat	Dept	Lat Act	X Long	Long in
N 66 E	220	82	201	48:56	300	7:53

H	Courses	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Thursday 20 May
1	E B N	7		West Cloudy
2		7
3		8			Passed a Brig
4		8
5		8
6		8	3
7		8
8	East	8		WNW
9		8	6	W B N
10		7	2
11		8
12	ESE	8
1		8
2		8		Vble [Variable] Squally and rain	At Noon sounded ground 72 fm [fathoms] sand and shells
3		8
4		8
5		8
6		8
7		8	3	Do [Ditto]
8		8		[Ditto]	Lat [Latitude] Obsd [Observed] 49:15
9		8
10		7	6
11		7	6
12		7	6
			Dist P 190 Miles

Course	Dist	X Lat	Dept	Lat Act	X Long	Long in

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H	Courses	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Fryday 21 May
1	E B N	5	4	NW Fair	PM Punished a [l?hoder] [do?] with 1 dozen lashes for repeatedly refusing his duty and other threatning mutinous behaviour
2		8	6
3		9	"
4		9	6
5		10
6	E B S	10
7	ESE	7
8		7	4	Shortened sail
9		6	5	made sail	Came on bd [board] Mr Well Pilot and took charge of the ship
10		6	5
11		6	4
12		6	6
1		7	"
2		7	2		Saw the land from the mast Head NNW about 9 Leagues
3		7	"
4		7	2
5	E 1/2 S	6	2
6		6
7	East	6			Spoke his majesty Ship [H?] who sent there boat on bd [board] and took all our [hands?]
8		6
9		5
10
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12	Dist P Log 152 Miles				No Obs [Observation]

H	Course	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Saturday 22 May
1		"
2		"
3	East	3	6	made sail	Came on bd [board] a [L?gh] and 40 men from the [?le] to assist in carrying the ship up
4		5	2
5		5	3
6		5	4
7	ENE	6	4
8		7	2	Saw the [bolt?] Head N B E Dist 6 Leagues
9		6
10	SSW	4
11	S B W	4	3		Bent the Best Bower Cable and got the Anchor over the side
12	S B E	4	4	No Ground 30 fm [fathoms]
1		4	4
2	SSE	4	2
3		4	6		Bent the small and sheet cable got the small B [Bower] Anchor over the side
4		4	6	Vble [Variable] Rain
5	North	3	"
6		1	6
7	NNE	1
8		2
9	E B N	3
10		1	4
11		4			No Obsd [Observed]
12		5
			Dist P Log

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H	K	F	Winds	Remarks on Sunday 23 May
1	6		W B S Hazey
2	6			Shortened sail for the [Hol?] to take our Purser with the [P?] Company [P?t]
3	6
4	5
5	3
6	2		made sail
7	6
8	6	4	West
9	7	6
10	7	2	Vble [Variable] rain and very thick fog
11	6
12	6			The Ship struck in a [h?ld] 3 fm [fathoms] Rockey [?] ground in [Ru?] bay Isle of Wight endeavored to get her head round to No [North] Southward which we did tried to get the ship off but finding we could not [Closed?] the sails up and let got he weather Anchor soon after her head [fr?ed] off shore loosed sails finding the Ship sway a head ~~f?yed~~ out the Cable when she struck again and unhung the Rudder fired signal guns furld the sails and got the Boats out and whent out with the to stern anchor with a 9 inch Hawser with a 6 inch Hawser and [?edge] let go in 5 for Waller Hove til we [br?] it got Bouy ropes [as?] from out to steady us Head to Wind got down top gal [gallant] yards and was to Employd [Employed] [l?ting] up and starting watter [water] to lighten her sent up the [Ports?] by a latter attending us with an Officer of the [H?] to the admiral for assistance got 40 men from the shore to assist in [par?ing] the ship Likewise sent for [s?] to take out Honl [Honorable] Company Cargo to lighten Ship at 9 Pilot and an officer came from the [Rac?] with 20 men to assess us the [Pu?] not quick Inspecting her [?ass]
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		Dist P for
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Ship's Log of the General Goddard, between England and India, 1789-1790