Taken from the Log of HMS Achilles Commanded by Captain E. Kelly, Log of HMS Constance Comd. by Capt. Frederic Proby Doughty. [At sea: 1882-1884]<br><p>A logbook by an officer on board the HMS Achilles and HMS Constance. <br></p><p>The first account of the Achilles involves E.P.F.G. Grant recording activities such as cleaning and reading prayers aboard the ship between her place of anchor at Alexandria, Egypt, on 1 September 1882, and their subsequent installment at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, England, on 6 October. In the next section, Grant begins documenting the daily details of his longer service aboard the newly-commissioned corvette Constance. The log begins at Chatham on 7 October 1882, and ends as the ship is moored at Constance Cove, Vancouver, with the last entry of 7 June 1884.
</p><p>Under Captain Frederic Proby Doughty, Constance voyaged across the Atlantic, rounded South America, and then spent time in Hawaii and other parts of the Pacific. The hand-drawn charts throughout offer a visual connection to Grant's meticulous logs. Each display Constance's tracking: Plymouth to Madeira (20-28 December 1882); Madeira to Cape Verde Islands (29 December 1882 to 5 January 1883); Cape Verde Islands to Montevideo, Uruguay (7 January to 3 February 1883); Montevideo to Sandy Point, Chile (8-16 February 1883); Sandy Point to Coquimbo (2-12 March 1883); Coquimbo to Callao, Peru (8-20 April 1883); Callao to Payta [Paita] (21-27 April 1883); Coquimbo to Pitcairn Island (20 February to 15 March 1884); Pitcairn Island to the Sandwich Islands, Hawaii (20 March to 13 April 1884); and Honolulu to Esquimalt, Vancouver (14-27 April 1884).<br></p>
Lot number: Live Auction lot 47 Sale  16 July 2021, New York<br>
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Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant</div>
between circa 1882 and circa 1885 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1882-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
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