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Revised 2010-07-20

Bond's Providence Logbook Nov 17, 1792

Remarks &c Saturday 17th November 1792

 1 pm: Fresh gales and cloudy weather

 2 pm: Carpenters employed Caulking the Upper Deck.

 5 pm: Worked the Pumps as usual – Set the Main Top Gallant Sail

 8 pm: Cloudy weather

 9 pm: Fresh breezes and cloudy weather squally at times – Made and shortened sail occasionally for the Brig to keep in her station

 1 am: Out 3rd reef Fore Top Sail and set the Fore Top Gallant Sail

 3 am: At times light breezes at others Moderate breezes

 4 am: Moderate breezes and cloudy with a head sea – Out 2nd reef Top Sails

 6 am: Saw Albatrosses and Sheerwaters – Served the usual Breakfast

 8 am: Light breezes and cloudy – washed the Gun Orlop and Cockpit Decks and aired with Fires – cleaned the cabins &c in the Fore Cockpit and washed with hot water to kill Cockroaches – Out 1st reef and set steering sails foreward.

12 noon: Moderate breezes and fine weather Assistant in company – Broached a Puncheon of Spruce Beer – Gunners employed scraping and blacking the Quarter Decks Guns &c
   Latitude Observed 30°:17′:30″ South


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