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DIRECTOR: Journal kept by Captain William Bligh. Surveying Atlantic and St Helena....
Catalogue reference: ADM 55/19
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This record is about the DIRECTOR: Journal kept by Captain William Bligh. Surveying Atlantic and St Helena.... dating from 1799 Aug 23-1800 Jan 28 in the series Admiralty: Supplementary Logs and Journals of Ships on Exploration. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- 1799 Aug 23-1800 Jan 28
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- DIRECTOR: Journal kept by Captain William Bligh. Surveying Atlantic and St Helena. Carefully and neatly kept by Bligh himself, with track chart, observations and original records, to St Helena and back
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ADM 55
Admiralty: Supplementary Logs and Journals of Ships on Exploration
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Within the series: ADM 55
Admiralty: Supplementary Logs and Journals of Ships on Exploration
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DIRECTOR: Journal kept by Captain William Bligh. Surveying Atlantic and St Helena....
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