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Revised Sep 7, 2021

Tobin's Providence Logbook Aug 11, 1791

Log Book &c. of H M Ship Providence from Spithead towards [the Cape of Good Hope – 1791]

Remarks Thursday August 11th 1791

 1 pm: Light Airs PM

 2 pm: Calm fair weather Employed getting Mats on the Lower Yards and rigging

 5 pm: The Weather continuing moderate and the clouds rising in the NW, with a long swell from the Westward

10 pm: Small rain

12 mid: AM

 1 am: Employed washing and cleaning below & shifting the Peoples Hamacoes

 4 am: Moderate and cloudy

 5 am: A long Swell from the NE

 6 am: Light Airs

 7 am: A Quantity of Fish playing around the Ship

 9 am: Calm

12 noon: Assistant in her Station
   Latitude Observed 47..34 North


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