SHIPS LOG, HMS MINDEN AND HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED, 1812-13

departing Menorca 6 August, travelling in convoy, making port at Madeira 29 August, reaching Table Bay 15 November, arriving Madras 29 January 1813, departing 19 March and reaching "Clappenburry Cove" [Trincomalee] on 4 April, there transferring to HMS Illustrious and weighing anchor 17 April 1813, anchoring at Madras, 20-22 April, with daily entries recording course, winds, signals, and remarks, noting for example other ships in view (e.g. Morley 13 October to 13 November 1812), WITH 194 INK AND WASH SKETCHES OF HIS SHIP UNDER SAIL, 82 pages, folio, 5 August 1812 to 7 May 1813, marbled paper wrappers, first four pages of text laid down, spine worn

HMS Minden was a third-rate ship of the line built in Bombay Dockyard in 1810. This log records a journey guarding a convoy of ships travelling to India. HMS Illustrious - which, like the Minden, had part in the successful invasion of Java in 1811 - was of the same class. This logbook is especially noteworthy for its daily pictorial record of the ship under sail variously rigged and under different meteorological conditions.