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The Ships' Logs
In 2010 the Trust decided to digitize eleven 19th century hand-written ships' logs held in its collections. The logs were from six whaling barques which formed part of the fleet owned by Charles and James Bayley . The Bailey brothers were closely associated with the beginnings of off-shore whaling in Hobart. The ships were the Derwent Hunter, the Flying Childers, The Fortitude, the Lady Of The Lake, the Runnymede and the Wallaby. These logs are the official record of the day to day events of these ships on their voyages out of Hobart in search of whales, and were completed each day by the ship's captain or first officer. A typical extract is as follows:-
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In order to reproduce these documents clearly it has not been possible to reduce the size of the resulting nearly 2000 images to the extent where all eleven logs are available on this website. However one log, that of the barque Runnymede on its voyage from Hobart in 1851, is presented here (in a reduced resolution) and may be viewed by clicking on the link immediately below:- All eleven digitized logs are available in their entirety (at full resolution) on a 2 disc dvd set available from the Trust and will shortly be viewable at the Trust's property Runnymede in Hobart
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