INDIA: PASSENGER SHIP'S LOG.

INDIA: PASSENGER SHIP'S LOG.
Log Book Containing the Proceedings On Board the Larkins. Manuscript ship's log book, 3 volumes, folio (317 x 260 mm), March 12, 1840-February 27, 1841, in pre-printed log books by Charles Wilson of London, entries in ink and pencil together with some pencil drawings of boats, and whimsical sketches. Original half red morocco and blue boards. Soiling to bindings, browning.
Provenance: William Nevett (1821-1898; bookplate).

Containing passenger lists, distances and coordinates, and long-form notes, recording a journey from Madras to Calcutta, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena and London, and back to India. Numerous small clipped pencil sketches are pasted into one volume. Larkins sailed under contract to the British East India Company. Launched as the Louisa in 1808, she was purchased before completion by John Pascal Larkins, who renamed her. She carried convicts to Australia on a number of voyages, and traded between London, India and Australia until being converted to a coal hulk in 1853. She was broken up in 1876. Her figurehead of a mustachioed man now resides in the Western Australian Museum. An obituary of the previous owner of these volumes, William Nevett, is pasted into one volume beside his bookplate, and indicates that he was a midshipman on this voyage.