The Complete Official Bounty Logbook
I have redone the logbook pages to more closely resemble the originals and to
include various observations that I had previously left out. Nothing is omitted
from these pages, they are complete.
The logbook is actually comprised of three volumes, the first two covering the
voyage of the Bounty up to the Mutiny, and the third the voyage in the Bounty's launch.
The pages of the first two volumes were hand numbered, the third not. The left facing
page was numbered in the upper left hand corner, the right facing page in the upper
right hand corner, and are shown here thusly:
xxx)
(xxx
However, these webpages are organized by date and logic rather than by logbook pages,
so that a webpage may contain either a single page, several pages, or even part of a
page.
Below are links to every page by date, but first here are links to siginificant entry points.
- Preparations and attempts to depart: Introduction
- Spithead to Tenerife, Canary Islands: Dec 24, 1787
- At Tenerife: Jan 7-9, 1788
- Tenerife to Cape Horn: Jan 11, 1788
- Attempt to round Cape Horn: Mar 25, 1788
- Cape Horn to Cape of Good Hope: Apr 22, 1788
- At Cape of Good Hope: May 24, 1788
- Cape of Good Hope to Advenure Bay, Van Diemens Land (Tasmania): Jul 2, 1788
- At Adventure Bay: Aug 21, 1788
- Adventure Bay to Matavai Bay, Tahiti: Sep 5, 1788
- At Matavai Bay: Oct 27, 1788
- At Toahroah Harbour, Tahiti: Dec 26, 1788
- Tahiti to Mutiny: Apr 5, 1789
- Mutiny and Launch Voyage: Apr 28, 1789
1787
- December
Introduction,
1,
2,
3-6,
7,
8,
9-17,
18-23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31
1788
- January
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7-9,
10,
Remarks at Tenerife,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31
- February
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
- March
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
- April
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
- May
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25-28,
29-June 5,
- June
6-12,
13-19,
20-29,
30-Jul 1,
- July
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
- August
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
- September
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
7,
6,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
- October
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
- November
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
- December
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
1789
- January
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
- February
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
- March
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
- April
1,
2,
3,
4,
Remarks I,
Nautical Remarks,
Time Keeper,
Matavai and Oparre,
Toahroah Harbour,
Taowne Harbour,
Remarks II,
Royal Family,
Erreeoys,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
- May
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20,
21,
22,
23,
24,
25,
26,
27,
28,
29,
30,
31,
- June
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
10,
11,
12,
13,
14,
15,
16,
17-18,
19,
20-21,
22,
23,
24-25,
26,
27-29,
30,
- July
1,
2,
3-5,
6,
7,
8-9,
10-13,
14,
15-16,
17,
18-20,
21-22,
23,
24-28,
29,
30-31,
- August
1,
2-5,
6-8,
9-11,
12-13,
14-18,
19-20,
A Short Course on Bearings
First, the compass is divided into 32 named points, as in the compass rose at the bottom of this page.
Each of these points is divided into quarter points. In these pages you will see such bearings as NNE¼E and
NW½N. The first is a quarter point east of north-northeast. The second is two quarter points north of northwest.
The first intials are the named compass point or the origin, then the fractional point from the origin, and finally the direction from
the origin. Similarly, there are quadrant bearings such as N62°E and W30°S. Again, the first is one of the four
cardinal points, N, S, E, and W, then a number of degrees from 1 to 89, and finally a direction. N62°E is 62°
east of north and W30°S is 30° south of west. If you see something like N.52W, the '.' is a period for the N and
not a decimal point. The keeper of the log, whether Mr. Bligh or Mr. Samuel, was never consistent. Sometimes there are
periods and sometimes not, sometimes there is a ° and sometimes not.
