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Folios 205-206: Matthew Flinders, HMS Investigator, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope....
Catalogue reference: ADM 1/1801/95
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This record is about the Folios 205-206: Matthew Flinders, HMS Investigator, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope.... dating from 1802 Oct in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1802 Oct
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Folios 205-206: Matthew Flinders, HMS Investigator, False Bay, Cape of Good Hope. Report that after a stay of four days at Madeira with HMS Investigator, he put to sea on 7 August 1801 and on the 15 August 1801 made St Antanio, the north westernmost of the Cape Verd [Verde] Islands. [Total one and a half sides, mentions:- Cape Palmas, crossing the equator on 8 September 1801, longitude of 17deg west, near the Island Sable or St Paul, Trinidad, Saxemburg Island. the investigations in the Southern Atlantic].
Folios 207-209: enclosure with folios 205-206. The Route of HMS Investigator from England to The Cape of Good Hope. [Table with columns headed:- Time, Wind Weather & remarks, By log (Course/Dist), Latitude, Longitude west (T K Arnolds 1736, D-O, Corrected), Currents (Lat N & S - Lon E & W) Magn Variat (Allowed & Observed), Compasses, Thermom (Day light, Noon, Water) & Barom (Daylight Noon). 19 July 1801 to 17 October 1801. [Total of three sides, double foolscap].
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- Cap F109
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