Document of the Month February 2009
Private Journal of a voyage to Batavia by an unknown writer, 1740s and 1760s
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© Aberdeen City Council (Aberdeen City Archives reference DD21/2/7)
This month's featured item is a journal from the Garden of Troup Family Collection detailing the sea voyages of an unknown writer in the mid eighteenth century on the ship Augusta captained by "The Honourable Captain Townshend". Starting from Deptford in the South of England, the writer details events and sightings on journeys to the island of Batavia (now Jakarta) and back to Holland between 1744 and 1761.
Encounters with Dutch Warships, sighting a lunar corona, ships in distress, an emotional flight from Batavia, and death at sea - for all of these and more tales of the High Seas click here to go to the next section.
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