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Revised Sep 17 2021

Flinders's Providence Logbook Jan 6, 1793

Remarks ☉ [Sunday] January 6 1793 H.M.S. Providence

 1 pm: Fresh Trade and fine Weather.

 2 pm: People mending their Cloaths.

 3 pm: Bent the old Mizen topsail

 4 pm: Cloudy Weather

 6 pm: Took in the royals

 8 pm: Moderate Breezes & fair Weather

12 mid: Ditto Weather Carrying all possible Sail

 1 am: Assistant abreast.

 4 am: Ditto Weather

 5 am: Many flying fish seen – royals set at Daybreak

 8 am: Moderate Trade and fine Weather – Sun and Moon tolerably free from Clouds.

11 am: Ships [Company] mustered in Divisions, seen clean and Divine Service performed to them by the Captain.

12 noon: At Noon Moderate Trade and cloudy Weather
Assistant in Company.


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