7th Jul, 2020 10:00
Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Unshaken)
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[Z] AN INTERESTING SHIP'S LOG FOR THE S.V. 'ESKDALE', 1883-84
AN INTERESTING SHIP'S LOG FOR THE S.V. ESKDALE, 1883-84
possibly kept by a Mate with entries between Sunday, 21st October 1883 and Thursday, 6th March 1884 between Liverpool and Portland, written in a clear copperplate hand in a conversational manner, littered with anecdotes about shipboard incidences and trivia, along with usual weather reports, occasional sextant sightings, course, and longitude/latitude notes; Thursday 13th December: The hands employed drawing yarns, picking oakum and chipping the f[ore]peak. My old complaint the toothache has been giving me fits today, I've been stuffing my mouth with tobacco; 31st January: ...The mate and 3rd are both in the black books, I'm not at all surprised at the 3rd, he's the most devil-me-care fellow ever I came across...; 20th February: Somebody spit into the old man's port last night. A gob of tobacco juice that would almost fill a tea cup, couldn't blame me for that as I never chew. The mate and he had a row about it. Occasional notes in the top margins - Thursday Cook ham - Friday Mackral; written in an 'off the shelf' log book retailed by William Gerrard with period adverts and lifesaving advice to front, blue card boards with pasted label inscribed Eskdale Liverpool -- 13½ x 11¼iin. (34.3 x 28.5cm.)
Sadly the ship's data and keeper of this log are not recorded in the front, however there is a loose period calling card for one Mr C.D. Mackenzie inside the fly; of the three "Eskdales" extant at this time, only one is a sailing vessel, that of the 1313 ton iron barque built at Whitehaven in 1873 for J.D. Newton & Co. Lloyd's Register for 1883 records the Master as being G. Currie, with a home port of Liverpool. In 1904 she was bought by S. Naess, and renamed Eline. She was wrecked near Skjelanger (Norway) on 31st January, 1912.
Sold for £496
Estimated at £200 - £300
(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)
Condition Report
Spine weak, covers worn; pages slightly time-stained but no tears and in good readable condition.
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AN INTERESTING SHIP'S LOG FOR THE S.V. ESKDALE, 1883-84
possibly kept by a Mate with entries between Sunday, 21st October 1883 and Thursday, 6th March 1884 between Liverpool and Portland, written in a clear copperplate hand in a conversational manner, littered with anecdotes about shipboard incidences and trivia, along with usual weather reports, occasional sextant sightings, course, and longitude/latitude notes; Thursday 13th December: The hands employed drawing yarns, picking oakum and chipping the f[ore]peak. My old complaint the toothache has been giving me fits today, I've been stuffing my mouth with tobacco; 31st January: ...The mate and 3rd are both in the black books, I'm not at all surprised at the 3rd, he's the most devil-me-care fellow ever I came across...; 20th February: Somebody spit into the old man's port last night. A gob of tobacco juice that would almost fill a tea cup, couldn't blame me for that as I never chew. The mate and he had a row about it. Occasional notes in the top margins - Thursday Cook ham - Friday Mackral; written in an 'off the shelf' log book retailed by William Gerrard with period adverts and lifesaving advice to front, blue card boards with pasted label inscribed Eskdale Liverpool -- 13½ x 11¼iin. (34.3 x 28.5cm.)
Sadly the ship's data and keeper of this log are not recorded in the front, however there is a loose period calling card for one Mr C.D. Mackenzie inside the fly; of the three "Eskdales" extant at this time, only one is a sailing vessel, that of the 1313 ton iron barque built at Whitehaven in 1873 for J.D. Newton & Co. Lloyd's Register for 1883 records the Master as being G. Currie, with a home port of Liverpool. In 1904 she was bought by S. Naess, and renamed Eline. She was wrecked near Skjelanger (Norway) on 31st January, 1912.
Auction: Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Unshaken), 7th Jul, 2020
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