20th Apr, 2011 12:00

Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Princess)

 
  Lot 86
 

86

[M] H.M.S. TRAFALGAR: A SET OF THREE MIDSHIPMAN'S...

H.M.S. TRAFALGAR: A SET OF THREE MIDSHIPMAN'S LOGS
kept by P. Worgan between 1859-64 and well illustrated with maps, technical plans, deck layouts, occasional photographs and prints where appropriate, watercolours etc. From March 1864 service is recorded aboard the Victory (for two weeks) and then Excellent; R.N. College, Heathfield House, Kew; and finally a cruise aboard Wolverine with a 'cruise up the Blue Mountains', the last entry being the bell for supper, bound between quarter calf cloth boards with gilt titles; together with the signal log of H.M.S. Trafalgar apparently kept by Worgan, undated but presumed contemporaneous
(4)

Sold for £1,736
Estimated at £800 - £1,200

(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)


 
H.M.S. TRAFALGAR: A SET OF THREE MIDSHIPMAN'S LOGS
kept by P. Worgan between 1859-64 and well illustrated with maps, technical plans, deck layouts, occasional photographs and prints where appropriate, watercolours etc. From March 1864 service is recorded aboard the Victory (for two weeks) and then Excellent; R.N. College, Heathfield House, Kew; and finally a cruise aboard Wolverine with a 'cruise up the Blue Mountains', the last entry being the bell for supper, bound between quarter calf cloth boards with gilt titles; together with the signal log of H.M.S. Trafalgar apparently kept by Worgan, undated but presumed contemporaneous
(4)
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