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Revised Sep 8, 2021

Tobin's Providence Logbook Feb 2, 1793

[H M Ship Providence from St. Vincents] towards Jamaica – 1793

Remarks &c February 2d – Saturday

 1 pm: Fresh Gale and fair weather – People washing and mending their cloaths – Sailmaker on the quarter deck awning – worked the Pumps as usual

 7 pm: Fresh gale and Squally – in steering Sails

 8 pm: Ditto Weather

 9 pm: In Top Gallant Sails

11 pm: Squally dark to the Northward made the Assistants Signal to go a head & try for soundings – Hard rain – up fore sail In 2d Reefs Topsails – at 1 in 3d Reefs Topsails

 3 am: Squally with Rain

 5 am: Fresh Gale and dark cloudy weather with much haze – Out 3d Reefs & set Top Gallant Sails – Served thick portable Soup gruel for breakfast – Saw a man of war bird and other Sea birds & flying fish

 8 am: at 8 Saw the Island of Hispaniola bearing NNW washed the Gund, Orlop and Cockpit decks & aired with fires – Sailmaker about the awning – Saw Grampuses & Porpoises – served Krout

12 noon: At Noon Fresh Gale and fine weather with haze Assistant in Company – South Point of Hispaniola N19°W distant 5 Leagues – Island of Beata N34W to N43W about 4 Leagues
Latitude Observed 17°..20′ North


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