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Diary

  • F1541
  • Item
  • 1838

Kept by Oswald Bloxsome on his voyage in the "Florentia" sailing vessel in 1838 to Australia with his wife and son , 4th April 1838 to 3rd Aug. 1838.

Bloxsome, Oswald

Log book of H.M.S. Warspite,

  • F431
  • Item
  • 1843-1845.

Book contains 2 segments : first is log book (1843 Jan.1 - 1844 Feb.3); begins in Madeira and ends in Malta. Second is diary of a Mediterranean cruise (1845 Feb.11 - 1845 Dec.24). Diary records visits to Beirut, Istanbul, Damascus, etc., and includes a drawing.

Graham, Thomas, 1818-1850

Journal of our voyage to Port Phillip,

  • F901
  • Item
  • 1848

Journal of a voyage to Port Phillip on the sailing ship Hooghly, 29 July to 27 Dec 1848.
Janet Richardson came to join her father at Camperdown with her brother James and sister Anne. Accompanied by notes (2 l.) about the family who later settled at Burrumbeep which adjoined Gorrinn in Ararat.

Wright, Janet

John Beagle Papers

  • UQFL443
  • Collection
  • 1830-1851

Copies of correspondence and notebooks of Dr Thomas Graham from 1830 until 1851.

Beagle, John

Diary, 1853-1854

  • F2281
  • Item
  • 1853-1854.

Diary of sea voyages in the' Warrior' from Plymouth to Lisbon, 1853 Aug 5 - Dec. 12; and the 'Africa' from Mersey River to Australia, 1854 Apr - July 5, stopping short of arrival in Australia.
4 notebooks bound into one volume, some blank pages cut out.
Handwritten.

Welman, Joseph

The journey

  • F2527
  • Item
  • 1862

Typescript. Description of journey on board the City of Brisbane which sailed from Plymouth on 26 February 1862 and arrived in Brisbane on 2 July 1862. There were 360 immigrants on board who were addressed before leaving by H. Gordon Esq. Describes living conditions, weather, meetings with other ships, volunteer duties, marine and bird life. The writer, John Thomas, and his brother Richard, left the City of Brisbane after it's arrival in Brisbane. According to the diary, from 4 July, "J.J. Brown, R. & J., John Thompson, Bull & S. Lawn" and a guide went on horseback to the Pine River. Richard and John Thomas purchased a lot situated at the Redcliffe Agricultural Reserve on 14 July 1862, which coincides with the details in the diary. Richard Thomas (1840-1922) and John Thomas (1841-1927) were children of Hannah Blossom and George Thomas who lived in Union Terrace, Yorkshire. The source of this diary is unknown.

Thomas, John, 1841-1927

Diary of a voyage from England to Moreton Bay 1865 May-Aug

  • F849
  • Item
  • 1865

Xerox copy of original mss exercise book owned by the Fortitude Club, Brisbane. Accompanied by a typed copy (12 l.) Diary is an account of the voyage to Moreton Bay aboard the ship Melmuby.

Ridley, I.

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