Revised May 19 2021
This is a notebook Bligh kept on the launch voyage. As he explains on Page 3, "This account was kept in my bosom as a common memorandum of our time & transposed into my fair Journal evry day when the Weather would admit–with every material circumstance which passed. — It happened that Mr. Hayward had this Book with some signels sat down in it wch appear in two Pages & I appropirated the blank leaves to this use."
I have included every page with writing on it, but have transcribed only the remarks. The page numbers are my own and some are missing, I discovered some were blank after I numbered them. The images are copyrighted by the National Library of Australia and are used by permission. Due to the copyright holder's restrictions, the images are shown at approximately 77% actual size.
A note on the links below. A simple date, 4 May or 3-4 May for example, is either a narrative or a page in the style of a logbook. 'Rems' denotes remarks and often follow a logbook page, and 'Figs' denotes Bligh's position calculations and often precede the logbook pages with the same date.
The image above is of a model of the launch scratch-built by Prof. James M. Norton, Ph.D.,
Chairperson, Department of Physiology, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, in 2005.
Used by Permission.
(More images of the model can be found
here.)