Logbook of HMS Zephyr, July 1873 – August 1876, recording visits to ports on the eastern Canadian seaboard (Halifax, Charlottetown, Picton and St John’s) as well as Bermuda and various ports in the We

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Foolscap folio (330 x 210 mm), original leather-backed marbled papered boards (somewhat rubbed and worn) with manuscript title label to each board, worded HMS Zephyr, Letters c. June 1873 and HMS Zephyr, Orders c, June 1873 , respectively; [79] pp., manuscript in ink, with copies of letters (entered at the front) and orders (entered at the rear) relevant to Zephyr s deployment from July 1873 to August 1876 along the Atlantic seaboard of North America and in the Caribbean, during which she visited Bermuda, Barbados, Halifax, Charlottetown, Picton, Nassau, Port au Prince, Port Royal, Santa Marta, Santa Domingo and St John’s, Newfoundland; the entries were recorded by Lieutenant Commander Charles Richard Cole Hamilton (1842-1911); clean and legible throughout; loosely enclosed are two separate original letters, one dated 30 March 1875 from an Admiralty hydrographer to HMS Zephyr commander C.R. Cole Hamilton requesting clarification for his use of a pilot, and a letter dated 3 August 1876 from a vice-admiral (signature illegible) to commander C.R. Cole Hamilton requesting clarification for HMS Zephyr’s loss of an anchor at Port Royal. HMS ZEPHYR HMS Zephyr was one of nine Ariel-class 4-gun composite screw gunboats built for the Royal Navy between 1871 and 1873. The first seven were built at Pembroke Dockyard in Wales; the last two HMS Ariel and HMS Zephyr were built at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, and were both launched on the same day, 11 February 1873. They were fitted out at Shee

• Binding: Hardcover

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