Catalogue description Ships log (with some maps and illustrations), HMS Racer, commissioned for service in...

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Reference: 335/4
Description:

Ships log (with some maps and illustrations), HMS Racer, commissioned for service in West Africa, records cruise to Ireland, visits to Maderia, Gibraltar, Port Said and Suez Canal, Lagos, Fernando Po, Bathurst, Malta, Suda Bay, Canary Islands Ascencion, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Suakin (Arab Egyptian rebellion) ?, Ismalia, Leghorn, Palermo, contact with HMS Conquest, Mercury, Mariner, Cormorant, Landrail, Falcon, Starling, Frolic, Alecto, Acorn and many others; use of electric light in battle; reference to Colonel Kitchener; anti-slavery operations; records accident to Cheerful; visit to Sailor's Rest; meeting with ships Susie May of Padstow and Margary ? of Greenock; prisoners from Spanish insurrection; court martial of James Rashbrooke; 'In Memoriam' Louis Gealern Robert Moore, Benjamin Strong, Charles Revell, John Hewitt, Albert Edgecombe, William Williams, William Foster, and lists crew invalided

Date: 1885 - 1889
Held by: Plymouth Archives, The Box, not available at The National Archives
Language: English

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