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147 - LOG AND SIGNAL BOOKS FROM H.M.S. EXCELLENT, CIRCA 1795
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LOG AND SIGNAL BOOKS FROM H.M.S. EXCELLENT, CIRCA 1795 the anonymous log book kept between 8th July 1795 and 14th June 1796, over 160pp plus blanks in brown ink in a neat copperplate hand, covering the period of H.M.S. Excellent’s deployment to the Mediterranean in July 1795, entered the Straits of Gibraltar on 22 July 1795, on 28 th February 1796 suffered a collision with another ship which resulted in the other ship being wrecked, but no loss of life, 14 April to Genoa, then Cape Noli etc. with details of the ship’s course, the wind direction, weather, latitude and longitude and bearings of the ship at Noon each day, together with “Remarks” ( some leaves loose or becoming so), contemporary vellum, small quarto; together with a signal book in fine calligraphic manuscript in ink on paper, with hand-coloured flags depicting the signals for the Line of Battle, Compass, Pendant signals, Tabular signals, Private Ship signals, Fog signals, and Signal Flags and Signals at Lisbon, 46pp., plus blanks ( a few pages loose), vellum-backed marbled boards (2) H.M.S. Excellent was a 74-gun 'Arrogant'-class ship built for the Royal Navy during the 1780s. Completed in 1787, she took part in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
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