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Diary of William Mason, HMS MEGAERA : Diaries, Journals and Logbooks 1871.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mason, William, author.
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2148
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Indian Ocean.
- Logbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Diary kept by William Mason, a crew member on the iron screw troopship HMS MEGAERA (1849), 27 April to 2 October 1871. The entries cover the period during which the MEGAERA was beached as unseaworthy on St Paul's Island in the Indian Ocean. The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co passenger liner MALACCA (1866), which was chartered by the British Government to rescue the stranded survivors, reached Sydney on 2 October.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:JOD/261/1.
- National Maritime Museum, UK: Journals And Diaries (JOD).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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