£800
A LOG BOOK FOR THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY SHIP EARL SPENCER, CIRCA 1803-1804
moored at Blackwall, then Gravesend, Portsmouth and thence to Bengal, 25 April 1803-7 February 1804 with a month stop at Rio de Janeiro (18 September-16 October) for repairs and supplies, 110 pp. Most of the entries are standard for this type of log: weather, cleaning the ship, washing clothes, making gaskets and sails, the log finishes abruptly on Thursday 7 February 1804 with Earl Spencer still at sea, numerous blank pages at the end, contemporary reverse calf (slight damage to spine), folio -- 14¾ x 9 in. (37.5 x 23 cm.)
Earl Spencer was a 644-ton ship built in Perry's Yard, Blackwall for James Duncan, and launched in 1795. Plying a steady trade to the Coromandel Coast and Bengal, in 1811 she was chartered by the British government and used to transport convicts to Botany Bay, her final fate is unrecorded.
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